Postgraduate Certificate in Education
Differences from 2023/24 to 2024/25
General Regulations
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Special Regulations
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Curriculum studies related to the professional knowledge, understanding and skills required for teaching a specific subject across the 11
––18 age range: the place of the subject in the school curriculum; the establishment and maintenance of a purposeful learning environment; lesson planning, teaching, and evaluation; formative and summative assessment; the promotion of young people’’s health and well-being; professional team work and collaboration In each of the seven subjects offered (English, Geography, History, Mathematics, Modern Foreign Languages, Religious Education, and Science) an integrated programme requires students to set theoretical and research-based understandings alongside classroom observation and teaching experience, subjecting both the educational theory and the practice to rigorous critical evaluation.A Professional Development Programme
School Experience. The course includes
120125 days’’ experience in a school or other educational setting nominated for this purpose by the Department of Education.
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Candidates are required to keep statutory residence and pursue their studies at Oxford during a period of at least 35 weeks in three terms for the dates shown at:
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Every candidate will be required to satisfy the examiners in the following:
(a)an assignment of 4,000 to 5,000 words (including footnotes/endnotes but excluding appendices, references or bibliography) on an issue of professional practice which transcends individual subjects.One electronic copy of the assignment (in a software format available in the department) must be submitted online to a digital address provided by the PGCE Examiners, at such dates and times as the examiners shall determine. The assignment should be anonymous except for the candidate number.
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ba) twocurriculumPGCE assignments of4,000-56,000 words each (including footnotes/endnotes but excluding appendices, references or bibliography), related to the theory and practice of teaching and learning within and beyond the candidate’’s own subject discipline (i.e. including reference to issue/s of professional practice which transcend individual subjects).One electronic copy of the assignment (in a software format available in the department) must be submitted online to a digital address provided by the PGCE Examiners, at such dates and times as the examiners shall determine. Each assignment should be anonymous except for the candidate number.
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cb)’’s professional attributes, knowledge, understanding and skills in relation to the Teachers’’ standards as determined by the Department for Education. This assessment is carried out by persons representing both the University and its partnership schools who are appointed for this purpose by the Departmental Board of the Department of Education.
Details of submission deadlines for the assignments set out under (a)
and (b)above and of the deadlines for the assessment of candidate’’s professional attributes, knowledge, understanding and skills as set out in (cb) above shall be published annually in the PGCE course handbook distributed to candidates at the start of the course.The determination of any candidate
’’s fitness to teach during the course of the Postgraduate Certificate of Education programme must be carried out in accordance with the Regulations for procedures concerning fitness to teach during the PGCE programme published annually in the PGCE course handbook and made available to students on the first day of the PGCE term.Candidates may also be called for viva voce examination.
If it is the opinion of the examiners that any or all of the candidate
’’s written assignments are not of the standard required for the award of the Postgraduate Certificate in Education, but that all assignments are nevertheless of sufficient merit to meet the standards required for the Professional Graduate Certificate in Education, then the board may recommend that the candidate should be awarded the Professional Graduate Certificate in Education, provided that the candidate’’s professional attributes, knowledge, skills, and understanding are also assessed as having met the Teachers Standards.Candidates who fail the examination may apply to the Departmental Board to be re-examined on not more than one occasion which should normally be within one year of their initial failure.
Those candidates who have failed the examination, but whose assignments meet the standards required for the Professional Graduate Certificate in Education, may apply for re-examination for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education within one academic year. In such cases the Departmental Board may recommend candidates to the Department for Education for the Award of Qualified Teacher Status even before their assignments have been resubmitted provided that they have satisfied the examiners in 2(
cb) above.Candidates who fail to satisfy the examiners in 2(
cb) above shall not be granted permission to re-enter for the examination.