Postgraduate Diploma

Education

(formerly known as the Qualified Teacher Programme)

Duration:: Three Semesters
Start Dates:: September
Attendance:: One day a week
Venue:: High Wycombe
Cost:: Available on request

Key Contact:: Lynn Peters
Tel:: 01494 522 141
Email:: lynn.peters@bucks.ac.uk

Key Contact:: Mike Mousley
Tel:: 01494 522 141
Email:: mike.mousley@bucks.ac.uk

Is this course suitable for me?

This is one of a portfolio of courses designed to deliver a range of teaching qualifications for those working within a professional education context. If you need or would like to study a particular aspect of a particular programme, or wish to study over a longer period than the standard part-time course, you can study individual modules as an associate student. Credits gained from the study of these modules can be used towards the full diploma or degree programme in the future. This also means that financial costs can be spread over a longer period of time.

Overview

Year 1: Semester 1

Facilitating Learning in Professional Education and Practice:

Focusing on the individual in professional education and the skills required to support individual learning.

Curriculum Studies 1: Foundations of Educational Practice:

Focusing on the curriculum in an academic and practice context.

Year 1: Semester 2

Curriculum Studies 2: Advances in Educational Practice:

Focusing on innovations and developments in educational practice.

Leading and Managing programmes in Professional Education:

Focuses on the role of the educator in leading developments and managing quality and standards.

Teaching, Learning and Assessment in Professional Education and Practice:

This work based module runs throughout the programme and includes reflection on practice, completion of peer observation and assessment of teaching and evidence of the completion of the equivalent of 12 weeks teaching practice. Without completion of this module, qualified teacher status cannot be awarded.

Awards

Post Graduate Certificate in Education

On successful completion of the requirements of the first year, students may elect to step off the course with the intermediate award of Postgraduate Certificate in Education. Students who have completed the course modules as part of the Postgraduate Certificate in Practice Teaching may join the Qualified teacher programme, gaining exemption from 50% of the work based learning module.

Post Graduate Diploma in Education with or without recordable teaching qualification with the Nursing and Midwifery Council

MA Education

Successful candidates can progress to the MA Education

Dissertation: This is achieved by the completion of a 60 credit dissertation.

Entry requirements

Applicants must be experienced professionals (minimum of 3 years full time equivalent) who wish to make the transition from professional practitioner to professional educator (or a combination of both).

Demonstrate the ability to study at Level 7
Have the support of their employer, including the provision of a supervising qualified teacher
Be employed in an appropriate professional or higher education role.

How to make an application

Please contact the Enquiries Team on 01494 603 171 or email ask@bucks.ac.uk

We hope to have a fully on-line application system shortly, but in the meantime, to apply for a course, please download and print these forms, completing them fully and posting back to the address below.

Mike Thomson

Student Recruitment Officer

Bucks New University

106 Oxford Road

Uxbridge

UB8 1NA

If you are unable to view the forms, please click here to download a free version of adobe reader.

Alternatively, if you call us on 01494 603 171 or email ask@bucks.ac.uk we can post you a hard copy application pack.

Students funded by the NHS or other employer

If the cost of your course is being funded by your employer, please contact your education lead or manager for guidance as to how they would prefer you to make an application.