Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (Taught)

This part-time programme is specifically designed for those currently working in Higher Education. Our Postgraduate Certificate is an experiential, work-based learning programme which can be studied alongside your day job.

At Worcester the course consists of three modules which provide you with an opportunity to gain knowledge, understanding and capabilities in learning, teaching, assessment and academic practice.

Key features

• The programme is supported through a series of interactive study sessions

• We seek to develop practitioners with clear professional values, who understand teaching as facilitating learning and who are constantly seeking to improve their practice in a reflective, scholarly and theoretically informed way

Course Modules

The programme aims to:

• Provide an opportunity for participants to engage in accredited initial and continuing professional development in teaching and support of learning in HE
• enable participants to meet the requirements of the UKPSF (in either Associate or Fellow categories)
• provide support with higher education learning, teaching or assessment issue participants may face
• promote a student-centred approach to learning, teaching and assessment
• challenge and develop participants' learning, teaching and assessment practice
• increase understanding of the learning process so participants can make informed decisions about course design and choice of learning, teaching and assessment methods
• foster transformational reflective practice
• encourage participant engagement with systematic inquiry into professional practice
• support participants' development as skilled teachers of their discipline
• support participants' academic development as researchers and scholars
• encourage engagement with wider policy, strategy and quality considerations as they relate to the participants context
• enhance participants' intrapreneurship, professional development & career management