Trying to find a specific course??

elisebutt65

Not strictly money saving - but if I can find this blooming course then hopefully it will be money generating - LOL

Anyway - I'm due to start my PGCE-PCE (further Education) next week and I'm also looking into doing another course next year - probably part time if/when I get a job in a FE college.

I think it's called a Post-Graduate Certificate of Higher Education


I can't find out where does it and how I'd do it as most of the teaching sites only list stuff about primary or secondary education.
Basically it's a certificate that will enable me to teach in a Uni - i.e. Post 18 - The FE one I'm doing lets me do up to HND level but I need yet another certificate apparently to go higher than that.

The Open University do one "Teaching and Learning in Higher Education" and I definitley have to be teaching whilst I do this one - Just wondering if there are any other places I can look at other than hotcourses and prospects

TIA

melancholly

well most lecturers don't need a teaching qualification - they just have a postgraduate degree of some sort (often phds for lectureships, but some teaching assistant jobs only require an undergrad degree)... i've been looking at applying to lectureships (for in a few months, not right now) and none of them specify that qualification. so i am now officially confused!

and apart from hotcourses and prospects, i don't know of anything to suggest - sorry!

dmg24

If you Google 'PGCHE' it brings up the different uni's that do it, you just have to search through a bit. Alternatively, if you know where you want to study, put that in the search with PGCHE.

If you want further info, the Prospective Student Teacher forum on TES is very useful.

melancholly is right about very few lecturers having a formal teaching qualification. It seems like they all just fell into the roles? Perhaps it is becoming more formal, hence the need for the qualification? Not sure really! x

elisebutt65

dmg24 wrote: »

If you Google 'PGCHE' it brings up the different uni's that do it, you just have to search through a bit. Alternatively, if you know where you want to study, put that in the search with PGCHE.

If you want further info, the Prospective Student Teacher forum on TES is very useful.

melancholly is right about very few lecturers having a formal teaching qualification. It seems like they all just fell into the roles? Perhaps it is becoming more formal, hence the need for the qualification? Not sure really! x

Yeah - from what I've been reading about it I think the govt are trying to get the standards ..erm standardised - LOL - hence this qualification.

I think my best bet is to get a job in teaching and do the PGHCE via OU. Unless it gets funded like the PGCE by the LEA then I'll do that after this course.

redmel1621

Hi

If you are doing a secondary PGCE that includes the post 16 element you will be classed as qualified to teach FE...
If you are looking to go straight into FE without doing a PGCE you have to complete the FE course usually this is done part time and i think you get a few years to do it too

I only know all this because I have been looking into whether to bypass the PGCE Secondary and go straight int FE teaching but have been wisely advised many times to do the PGCE as it would allow me to have my options open......Secondary or FE.... this is what I now plan to do next Sept

HTH
Mel x

elisebutt65

No - I'm purely doing the PCE - Post Compulsory PGCE which only allows for Post 16 education (FE) as I have absolutely NO inclination to teach 16 and under - I have 2 of them already - LOL I'll be doing it full time for a year as the PGCE part time is geared towards tutors/lecturers already in post and contains the HE element.

What I'm looking into doing is the PGCHE as well so I can also teach at degree level.

I've decided though that I will wait until I have got a post somewhere next year and do it via the OU - It's about £945 and counts as 60 credits towards the 180 needed for a MA in Education which I want to get anyway. Then I also want to do one of the units on language and literacy and possibly the TESOL before I do dissertation to get my MA. I get 6 years to do my Masters so I can just do one unit a year until I get my 180 credits - that's it - life sorted - If only - LOL!!!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I wish there was as much information on teaching at a higher level as there is for primary and secondary though - teachersnet and the teach.gov site don't really go into it that much, if at all - sigh

Savvy_Sue

University of Surrey USED to do a PGCEA - PG Cert in the Education of Adults. Don't know if that would serve your purpose, or even if they still do it! Tried looking quickly but it's late and my brain is tired ...