Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (Post-16 Education and Training)(Part Time)

This Level 6 course is appropriate for the post-16 education and training sector. An honours degree (2:2) is required for entry to the programme. This course will help you to develop your teaching skills, reflect on current ideas about education and training, and creatively explore the professional opportunities open to you. You will gain a professional qualification in further, higher or adult education and training.

It is offered to those currently in teaching, in-service, as a two year part-time course. You should be in paid employment as a trainer or teacher, for a minimum of 100 hours of relevant current group teaching over two years is required.

The course combines lectures, seminars and work experience to provide you with a conceptual and practical understanding of how to influence the quality of teaching, learning and assessment across multiple contexts in the post-16 sector. You will learn alongside other teaching professionals and acquire adult learning theory which will be applied to your own practice.