PGCE Education - Secondary – (Grad.Cert.)

This one year, full-time programme prepares you to teach pupils in the 11 to 18 age-range. It enables you to understand how young people learn, both within and beyond your chosen specialist subject. It equips you to engage critically with the various ‘givens’ of professional practice, including guidance and policy at school, local and national levels, and to demonstrate the skills and commitment required to work with pupils from a broad range of backgrounds in state schools. The programme helps you to gain a sense of yourself as part of a community of practitioners, and to understand the importance of social learning. A number of opportunities to work at QCF Level 7 (master's level) are built into the programme and, upon successful completion, you could achieve 40 credits towards an MA in Education.

Why Brookes?

The School of Education at Oxford Brookes is one of the largest schools of education in the UK, combining high quality teaching and significant research and consultancy activity in an outstanding location, with superb sporting, recreational and study facilities.

As a Postgraduate student you will be joining a university which is widely regarded as a major contibutor to the improvement of education and learning, locally and nationally. The School of Education is a focal point for lively, informed debate on education through its seminar and lecture programmes, including the high profile Oxford Education debates. We are proud to be co-sponsors of the Oxford Academy, a community secondary school, where Oxford Brookes staff and students provide practical support to pupils and teaching staff.

We work in close partnership with hundreds of schools and colleges and other organisations.

Our 110-acre Harcourt Hill campus offers all the benefits of a complete academic community on one site. You will be working with highly regarded academics who are at the forefront of their subjects. Drawing on our cutting-edge, research-led teaching, our courses will advance your knowledge and develop your professional skills. Academics work alongside students from a wide range of backgrounds, and with the support of a caring and efficient administrative staff, provide a rich and diverse intellectual and social environment.