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Secondary English with QTS - PGCE

Birmingham City University

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  • Qualification

    PGCE - Postgraduate Certificate of Education

  • Location

    City Centre Campus (The Curzon Building)

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    SEP

  • Duration

    1 Year

Course summary

Our PGCE in English will develop you into a teacher able to deliver the wide-ranging curriculum covered under English, including Language, Literature and supporting studies in Drama and Media education. What's covered in this course? You’ll learn the teaching methods and strategies that will help your classes develop their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills so they become effective communicators. This course covers the 11-16 age range, in secondary age phase, with post-16 enhancement. Taught modules, assignments and School-Based Training are structured around the development of your progress against our ITE Core Curriculum. Our ambitious curriculum incorporates the Initial Teacher Training and Early Career Framework – ITTECF (January 2024) and the nationally agreed competences - the Teachers’ Standards, which all teachers must meet throughout their career. In line with DfE requirements, we have designed Intensive Training and Practice (ITaP) sessions for this course. ITaP elements enable you to focus on specific and pivotal areas of the ITE curriculum – such as assessment, transitions and adaptive teaching – in an intensive way and so develop the skills and knowledge to draw together evidence-based theory and practice. We map your development as a subject specialist with reference to identified subject priorities appropriate to the needs of secondary teachers entering the profession. Our systems for continuous improvement, development and assessment of your progress will support your growing ability to take responsibility for your own professional development and ensure that you approach QTS with a sound understanding of research-informed pedagogies and practices.

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Birmingham City University

Birmingham City University

  • University League Table

    95th

  • Campus address

    City Centre Campus (The Curzon Building), 4 Cardigan Street, Birmingham, West Midlands, B4 7BD, United Kingdom

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BCU's facilities are world-class, staff have experience in every sector, and courses prepare you to tackle real-world challenges.
Many master's courses offer international students optional six-month professional placements towards the end of their studies.
Live and study in an affordable multicultural city. BCU is a modern and dynamic international university, with staff, students and alumni from 120 countries.

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Education

    55th out of 91 4

  • Entry standards

    / Max 212
    116 55%

    50th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    79.0 79%

    41st

    6

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.14 78%

    70th

    13

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