Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (Professional Diploma in Teaching - Further Education and Skills)

Empowering educators in the Further Education and Skills Sector

The course provides our trainee teachers with the knowledge, resilience and passion to succeed as teachers in the Further Education and Skills Sector. We aim for our trainees to be armed with the skills they need to transform the lives of their learners. Our course is vital to the prosperity of the local area, as we are creating our own base of local teachers with local knowledge who understand their local community and want to make a difference.

Working in the Further Education and Skills Sector, it is vital that all teachers and trainers consistently reflect on their practice in order to meet the dynamic needs of this ever-evolving sector and meet the requirements of the ETF, Ofsted and Office for Students. Our trainees will be working in diverse environments but meeting the individual requirements of all learners, allowing them to achieve.

Trainees will explore and critique current issues as well as acquire technical competence in approaches to the four central concepts of pedagogy, andragogy, curriculum and assessment. They will explore and critique the ETF professional standards alongside the occupation standards and their application within the trainees' teaching practice. This course will also focus on the Department of Education, ITT Core Content Framework, which consists of five core areas: behaviour management, pedagogy, curriculum, assessment and professional behaviours.

This course is available both full-time and part-time for those currently employed in a teaching role.
We work closely in collaboration with our stakeholders, which include local employers, mentors and our trainees, to develop and grow the programme to meet their needs. We also work with our fellow TEC Partnership partners. Traditionally, 94% of our trainees have achieved a positive destination following our course, with 90% of trainees employed in an occupation categorised as highly skilled 18 months after successfully completing the course.