Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE)

Falmouth University

Introduction

Develop the expertise to support you within your role in both digital and face-to-face teaching and learning contexts.

Engage with your peers and scholarship and develop as a creative, confident, competent and committed practitioner, able to learn from both your own work and examples of best practice.?

Benefit from our ‘learning by doing’ approach and discover through your own learning experience, what it’s like to learn and teach, both face-to-face and online.

The PGCHE has been designed in consultation with education professionals and external bodies for professional teaching and learning practice, such as the Higher Education Academy (HEA).

You will:

• Push the limits of your practice by trying new initiatives, and taking risks within a safe, supportive environment
• Become more confident in?your practice and your ability to respond to the rapidly shifting HE sector and its growing emphasis on the student experience
• Benefit from studying alongside peers from different countries, disciplines and backgrounds, allowing you to interact with new perspectives
• Develop your ability to critically evaluate your practice in the light of pedagogical research, scholarship and policy?
• Gain the confidence, knowledge and pedagogical fluency to be able to effectively explain your approach to colleagues, students and managers
• Gain the knowledge to be able to prepare applications for professional recognition from various professional bodies. E.g. a portfolio for Fellowship recognition?(FHEA) from the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in the UK
• Gain an internationally-recognised qualification for teaching and learning in Higher Education.

How you'll learn

With Falmouth Flexible, you access your course content, interactions with other students and tutors, and learning resources, through Canvas, an easy-to-use online platform.

You can access the course wherever you are in the world, and you can stop, pause and rewind lectures whenever you want.