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Qualification
PGCE - Postgraduate Certificate of Education
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Location
University of Reading
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
01-SEP-25
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Duration
10 months
Course summary
Develop your teaching skills with the PGCE Secondary Education with Geography and qualify as a Secondary Geography teacher and benefit from our consistently high employment rates on this highly regarded course at the Institute of Education.
This Post Graduate Certificate Education (PGCE) Secondary Geography course leads to the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), qualifying you to teach the 11-18 age group in secondary schools in England and Wales.
Your tutors are a diverse and incredibly experienced community of academics. You will be taught by those with national reputations as experts in the field of geography in education.
You will examine a range of pedagogical approaches to geography teaching and address all aspects of secondary geography including specialist expertise in areas such as physical, human, environmental geography, and fieldwork or ecosystems, meteorology and climatology, economic and political geography, map work and geographic information system (GIS), and fieldwork.
WHAT CAREER CAN YOU HAVE?
The majority of our graduates go into schools and inspire children to develop into happy confident and well-informed individuals. Other alumni take their educational skills to the worlds of business, culture, art, healthcare, human resources, adult learning and further varied fields.
The support and training we give our students enables them to develop into resilient and creative teachers with the ability to adapt and the transferable skills and strengths they gain are also recognised and desirable in many different areas of employment.
The placement opportunities and careers support we give our students ensures they are attractive to employers; this is qualified by the consistently high employment rates our students enjoy in local and regional schools.
Modules
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£ 22,350per year
Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.
University information
University of Reading
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University League Table
35th
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Campus address
University of Reading, Whiteknights House, PO Box 217, Reading, Wokingham, RG6 6AH, United Kingdom
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Subject ranking
15th out of 91
29th out of 73 1
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Entry standards
/ Max 224137 61%35th
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 10089.0 89%6th
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 43.18 80%29th
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Entry standards
/ Max 211120 57%46th
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/ Max 10073.0 73%44th
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 43.21 80%21st
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