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Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (Lifelong Learning) Part-Time (In-Service)

If you’re already working as a teacher or trainer at a recognised training or educational establishment within the education and training sector (former post-14 sector) and looking to progress your career, then this course will help you on your way.

Why Lifelong Learning?

  • Upon successful completion of this course, you’ll be eligible to proceed to gain Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS) status, following a process of professional formation through the Society for Education and Training. Your QTLS is the full professional status for teachers in the Lifelong Learning sector.
  • During the course you’ll have the opportunity to develop the skills to play a full part in teaching and curriculum development.

Occasional changes to modules and course content may take place. Trainees will be notified when applicable.

Key Information

  • Course Level

    Level 6

  • Delivery

    Part-Time

  • Duration

    2 Years Part Time

  • Programme Specification

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  • Awarding Body

    University of Huddersfield


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Core Modules:

Year 1

  • Research Informed Teaching, Learning and Assessment
  • Becoming a Subject Specialist Teacher (Practice Based)

Year 2

  • Being a Subject Specialist Teacher (Practice Based)
  • Curriculum and Context

Placement:

You should be in employment as a teacher or trainer at a recognised training or educational establishment. The placement hours for each practice-based module should be at least 125 hours in duration, of which at least 75 hours should be teaching practice (totalling 250 hours). The balance constitutes your professional practice hours and can include a range of activities, including team meetings, planning, interviews, assessment meetings, observations and/or provider wide CPD sessions. These activities should be supported by reflection and self-evaluation. A minimum of 10 hours of remote synchronous delivery should be included per practice-based module, (totalling 20 hours) alongside a minimum of 40 hours face to face delivery.

To improve your range of experience in the sector, your placement practice across the year must include experience in another teaching location. Cumulatively, this must come to 20 hours across the year. The 20 hours experience can include observation of practice, CPD activities, etc rather than teaching practice. If it is not possible to source a second placement, the placement could include observation of a different subject area and/or venue (e.g. alternative provision, 6th form) in the same provider. The 20 hours of experience in another placement will be logged in the teaching portfolio that you will submit as part of the assessment requirements for the module titled ‘Being a Subject Specialist Teacher’

Financial Support

UK students can take out a tuition fee loan to cover the cost of their course and a maintenance loan to cover living costs.

We also have a range of other financial support available.

Course Fees

UK

£3970.00 PA

Additional Costs

Your Tuition fees cover most costs associated with your course (including registration, tuition, and assessment).

There may be some extra costs that you might need to make, or choose to pay, for example:
• Books (you’ll have access to books from your module reading lists in the HE library, but you may wish to buy your own copies)
• Printing and photocopying

  • A DBS check will be required, which you must pay for.

Apply or Enquire

Applying only to University Campus North Lincolnshire? You can directly apply.

If you are applying only to University Campus North Lincolnshire and not to any other universities or providers, you can do so directly by using the following link.

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