Overview
Learn to teach at college level on this Further Education and Training PGCE – rated Outstanding by Ofsted after its latest inspection – and support and inspire students aged 16 and above as they prepare to take their first career steps.
You'll gain theoretical teaching expertise at University and real classroom experience on placements in real educational settings, developing the confidence and skills to become a reflective and resilient further education teacher. You'll also explore how to teach and design learning programmes in a range of specialist subjects alongside your course teachers and work-based subject mentors.
If you're not yet working in further education, you can study this course full-time at the University or by distance learning. Or, if you already have a role in further education, you can study part-time by distance learning or at one of our partner colleges, alongside your job. If you choose to study by distance learning, you'll still do your teaching placements in person.
Wherever and however you study, you’ll be a student of the University of Portsmouth, so you’ll have access to all of our facilities and support.
Once you graduate, you'll be ready to begin your teaching career in further education institutions, such as colleges, sixth-forms and private training providers.
You can start this course in September or January (distance learning option only).
Course highlights
Careers and opportunities
Careers this course prepares you for
On this Further Education and Training PGCE, you'll gain the formal teaching qualification you need to teach in further education settings such as colleges, sixth-forms and private training providers.
This PGCE is a professional teaching qualification recognised by further education providers in the UK. When you graduate, you'll also be eligible to apply to the Society for Education & Training (SET) to gain Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS) status, which is recognised as comparable to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).
As a new further education teaching professional in 2023, you could expect a starting salary of £25,454 in the UK. A PGCE is an internationally-recognised qualification, so you'll also be able to work as a teacher overseas, including in the USA, Canada and Australia.
You could also earn 60 postgraduate credits on this course, which you could put towards a full Master's degree (worth 180 credits) in the future.
Graduates of this course have gone on to work in:
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University of Portsmouth
University House,
Winston Churchill Avenue,
Portsmouth,
PO1 2UP, England
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