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University of Wales Trinity Saint David: Primary (PGCE - Graduates only)

Institution University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Department Teacher Education
Web https://www.uwtsd.ac.uk
Email admissions@uwtsd.ac.uk
Telephone 0300 500 5054
Study type Taught

Summary

Graduates of the PGCE Primary course will have the knowledge, skills, values and dispositions to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS) and be a professional teacher, ready to work in Wales and beyond.

The core content includes:

  • Alternative setting – an opportunity to experience education in its widest sense;

  • Bridging – the process by which practical and theoretical knowledge meet, and the transformative approach is enacted;

  • Compulsory modules – the co-constructed and co-delivered content (pedagogic and subject-related) of the programme;

  • Electives – a school-based and University-supported experience where graduates can elect to follow a more specialist line of inquiry in order to deepen curriculum knowledge;

  • Partnership conference – the opportunity to share best practice at a conference event in order that the partnership can be transformed;

  • Qualified Teacher Status – a compulsory professional pathway leading to the award of qualified teacher status;

  • Welsh Language Skill Development – a compulsory professional pathway to develop graduates’ confidence and competence in speaking Welsh.

Why choose this course?

  1. UWTSD ranked 1st in Wales for Education (Guardian League Table 2022)
  2. Graduates are highly employable as qualified teachers.
  3. English and Welsh pathways available.
  4. Study in the state-of-the-art SA1 campus in Swansea.

Postgraduate Certificate in Education - PGCE

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