PGDip Teaching Qualification in Further Education (TQFE) - Pre-service

Overview

The Pre-Service TQFE course is the recognised qualification for people who want to go on to be a lecturer in Scottish further education (FE). The course is based on the Professional Standards for Lecturers in Scotland’s Colleges (2018), and is fully accredited by the General Teaching Council for Scotland. The course supports you in developing your capacity as a professional educator so that you can make a positive contribution to the modern further education sector.

You’ll gain valuable work experience in one of our partner colleges across Scotland, and enhance your understanding and professional practice within the FE sector.

The University of Stirling have been delivering the TQFE course for 15 years. The course integrates a range of pedagogic techniques which aim to encourage you to engage with academic and policy literature and to communicate with your peers as part of a ‘professional learning community’. Both face-to-face sessions and a variety of online technologies are used to deliver the course.

Course details

Key principles underpinning this TQFE postgraduate degree include:

• developing awareness of appropriate professional values and attributes of the vocational educator
• encouraging innovation in teaching/learning and wider professional practice
• supporting the development of a ‘professional enquiry’ approach throughout and beyond the course