PGCE Secondary Business Education with Qualified Teacher Status

Course summary

• Undertake school-based training in two different school settings.
• Learn how to teach business education.
• Gain knowledge of schools and the education system.

This course is professional and vocational in nature and has, as its primary aim, the development and supply of competent teachers who will be capable of securing employment in an education setting. The employment record is consistently high and usually well in excess of 90%.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

This course provides a flexible framework to support your academic and professional development through a range of school-based training and university-based sessions. Throughout the course you will be encouraged to critically reflect on your progress, and academic and professional review tutorials will be used to support your development.

You learn through

• seminars and lectures
• workshops
• directed tasks
• school-based experiences
• independent study
• discussions
• group work
• practical work
• written assessments and feedback

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in

• a secondary teaching post
• academic career as researcher via Masters level study and PhD
• Local Authority/Voluntary Sector worker or researcher
• Non-Government Organisation (NGO) administrative and research posts
• enrichment work with young people
• more general graduate careers including retail management and the civil service.

An honours degree (normally 2.2 or above) or equivalent, which includes substantial elements of business education study. Normally GCSE grade C or Grade 4 in English Language and mathematics, or equivalent. Where applicants have achieved a GCSE grade 4 or above in English literature only, we will look for further evidence of a breadth of achievement in English. We will consider applicants who are in the process of obtaining the relevant GCSEs.