We offer students an exceptional training experience – if youre looking for a lifelong, challenging and exciting career, teaching may well be for you.

During the training year, you will engage with and be exposed to a range of pedagogical approaches to enable you to become an outstanding teacher. As a part of our distinctive and ambitious curriculum, you will understand and apply your knowledge of:

• Dramatic Interpretation
• Canonical texts
• Textual Analysis
• Imaginative Interpretation

In the context of the core English curriculum in theory and on placement.

The PGCE will provide you with the opportunity to gain a deep understanding of key stages 3, 4 and 5. This will prepare you to adopt a range of learning, assessment and behavioural strategies to support consistent and engaged pupil progress.

The course gives high priority to developing your abilities in analysis, evaluation and autonomous learning. Placements in contrasting schools provide opportunities to develop your understanding of the teachers wider role.

Youll be supported by a range of experienced professionals, both during school placements and by academic staff at the university. The programme aims to help you become an engaging and effective teacher within the 11–16 age range, and provides the input and opportunities that could enable you to teach post-16.

We were founded as a teaching college 175 years ago, and following the introduction of new quality requirements, our Initial Teacher Training (ITT) courses leading to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), have successfully achieved reaccreditation in 2022 by the Department of Education.

Our ITT courses have also recently been rated ‘Good by Ofsted, with inspectors highlighting their ‘unique emphasis on sustainability and the Universitys strong partnership with schools.