Professional Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) Primary Education: University of East London

About the programme

This programme aims to train teachers who are adept in educating children in London’s multicultural, multilingual urban environment. It provides you with the recommendation to the General Teaching Council for England (GTC) for Qualified Teacher Status, and their excellent links with local schools will help you to establish your teaching career.

Career opportunities

All their completing trainees wanting a teaching post have successfully attained one. Many have become members of school senior management teams. Further careers include educational psychologist, advisory worker, numeracy/literacy consultant, leading mathematics/literacy teacher, headteacher and managing resourced provision for children with special educational needs.

Admission requirments

Application is through the Graduate Teacher Training Registry (GTTR). You will need to demonstrate through your GTTR form and at interview that you:

• can read effectively and are able to communicate clearly and accurately in standard English;
• possess the appropriate qualities, attitudes and values expected of a teacher;
• have the intellectual and academic capabilities needed to meet the required QTS standards;
• have achieved a standard equivalent to Grade C in the GCSE examinations in English, science and mathematics;
• hold an honours degree, 2.2 or above, from  a  United Kingdom Higher Education Institution or an equivalent qualification;
• have had a minimum of five days work experience (voluntary or paid) with children in a mainstream primary school.

Applicants who do not hold English, mathematics or science GCSE Grade C

If you do not hold a GCSE in English, mathematics or science Grade C or above (or an equivalent qualification), at UEL we provide English Language, mathematics and science tests. A pass in these tests will be acknowledged by UEL as being equivalent to Grade C at GCSE/GCE O-level.