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PGCE Secondary English

University of Reading

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  • Qualification

    PGCE - Postgraduate Certificate of Education

  • Location

    University of Reading

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    01-SEP-25

  • Duration

    10 months

Course summary

Study our PGCE Secondary English at the Institute of Education and benefit from highly experienced tutors and consistently high employment rates. This Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) Secondary English course leads to the award of Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), qualifying you to teach the 11-18 age group in secondary schools in England and Wales. We recognise the importance of being able to teach children to think, create and explore the world through language and literature. Training to teach English at the University of Reading is a dynamic, cutting edge and practical experience, which will enable you to share your passion for English with pupils, and develop professional skills so that you can become an excellent English teacher. The course is linked with the National Association for the Teaching of English (NATE) and provides great networking and professional learning within a community of English teachers. This is at the heart of what we do. We pride ourselves on the high quality of our teaching support, and your studies will include a blended mix of pedagogy sessions, professional studies, and school experience. This consists of around 50 three-hour taught subject sessions and 10 Professional Studies sessions over the course of the year. Subject pedagogy sessions include: teaching reading and literature teaching writing teaching talk and oracy teaching grammar, language, vocabulary and spelling teaching poetry teaching media in English teaching Shakespeare planning, progress and assessment teaching and using drama in English adaptive teaching in English creativity in English. These sessions are taught by highly experienced University tutors, with additional guest presenters drawn from the Institute of Education, several of our partnership schools, and beyond. Sessions are evidence-informed and seek to give trainees the opportunity to explore the connections between research and practice in a collaborative and stimulating environment. Trainees are fully supported in school by University-trained subject mentors, and their progress is monitored closely by University tutors.

Tuition fees

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£ 22,350per year

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University information

University of Reading

University of Reading

University of Reading

  • University League Table

    35th

  • Campus address

    University of Reading, Whiteknights House, PO Box 217, Reading, Wokingham, RG6 6AH, United Kingdom

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The University of Reading is an international community with more than 26,000 students from around 160 countries. 
Reading is a lively town just 22 minutes from London Paddington by train, and 45 minutes from Heathrow Airport by coach. Windsor and Oxford are also close by.
Reading supports undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students to maintain, improve and develop their academic English.

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Education

    15th out of 91

    43rd out of 96 8

  • Entry standards

    / Max 224
    137 61%

    35th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    89.0 89%

    6th

    3

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.18 80%

    29th

    3

  • Entry standards

    / Max 202
    127 63%

    45th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    71.0 71%

    51st

    1

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.15 79%

    52nd

    13

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