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Teacher training / PGCE
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The Buckingham Independent Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE)The Buckingham Postgraduate Certificate of Education has been developed in close consultation with the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC). Since 2003 it has been offering teachers in the independent sector who have not undergone a period of formal teacher training the opportunity to participate in a year long structured programme of professional development. The PGCE is offered to teachers in all subjects and all levels (subject to availability). Those on the course will be employed in schools in the independent sector, which will put them forward for the course. In their schools they will receive school-based training in the craft of the classroom, overseen and supported by mentors in their schools. Once each term they will be visited by a subject specialist mentor from Buckingham, who will help to ensure comparability of standards across the participating schools. The Buckingham mentor and the school mentor will jointly assess the student's competence as a teacher during and at the end of the course. In addition to the school-based programme, students on the PGCE come to Buckingham once each term for a three day residential meeting, where they will reflect more systematically on the subjects they are teaching, the craft of the classroom and the educational enterprise more generally. Download the PGCE application form in PDF format (51 KB) or contact Nikki Mugford, Secretary to the Department of Education, on +44 (0)1280 820219 or email education@buckingham.ac.uk. The Buckingham Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) with QTS (Qualified Teacher Status)Following the successful introduction of the Independent PCGE, from September 2005 the Department is able to offer a PGCE with QTS fully accredited by the Government's Teacher Training Agency. The PGCE is offered to secondary school teachers in both the maintained and independent sector in English, Mathematics, Science, History and other subjects on application. The PGCE with QTS follows the same pattern as the Independent PGCE (school-based training, combined with termly three day residential meetings at Buckingham) and it embodies the same philosophy, while at the same time training and assessing its students against the Government's standards for qualified teacher status. It thus gives successful students the right to teach in state schools as well as in the independent sector. Download the PGCE with QTS application form in PDF format (156 KB) or contact Nikki Mugford, Secretary to the Department of Education, on +44 (0)1280 820219 or email education@buckingham.ac.uk. |
The Department is currently involved in
two schemes for graduate trainees.