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Primary Education PGCE

University of Bedfordshire

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  • Qualification

    PGCE - Postgraduate Certificate of Education

  • Location

    Bedford Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    08-SEP-25

  • Duration

    1 Year

Course summary

This PGCE course is designed to give you a secure understanding of primary teaching and learning (5-11 age group). It develops the skills you need to teach core and foundation subjects using a variety of teaching approaches, with the opportunity to put theory into practice in the classroom on your placements. Your University-based sessions focus on developing your professional role, subject knowledge and principles of learning the National Curriculum and aspects of teaching such as lesson planning and assessment.

There is the option to take this course part time over two years, making it easier to balance study with your other commitments.

What will you study?

Studying our Primary Education PGCE course will equip you with in-depth knowledge and skills around primary school education, teaching and curriculum. You will start by building your understanding of teaching and learning, as well as how to apply that knowledge into practice in our Evidence Informed Primary Teacher (Level 7) unit.

Based on key literature, you will focus on developing evidence-informed teaching and subsequently be critical of your own practice in The Reflective Primary Teacher (Level 7) unit. This will help you prepare for work within complex and unpredictable early years classroom settings that demand innovative thinking and actions.

In areas of practice, you will have the opportunity to undertake a school placement where you will build your experience to independently plan and deliver lessons based on your observations and learning in our School Experience 1 – The Primary Early Years Teacher unit. You will learn to apply useful management strategies in a school context while aligning with behaviour management policy.

In the second part of this unit School Experience 2 – The Primary Early Years Teacher you will continue to develop and apply your experience from the first unit while also learning methods to adapt teaching, effective use of assessment and to promote good progress.

Careers

On graduating you can apply for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) enabling you to work in a primary education setting. Many of our graduates go on to rewarding employment in local schools.

There are also opportunities to progress to further study at MA/MSc MPhil PhD and EdD levels.

Tuition fees

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£ 9,250per year

Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.

University information

University of Bedfordshire

University of Bedfordshire

  • University League Table

    129th

  • Campus address

    University of Bedfordshire, Park Square, Luton, Luton, LU1 3JU, England

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Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Education

    68th out of 91 2

  • Entry standards

    / Max 224
    103 46%

    88th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    83.0 83%

    23rd

    2

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.31 83%

    15th

    3

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