Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Education (PGCert)

Find out more about our Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Education (PGCert) degree at Warwick

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PGCert

5 months part-time

13 January 2025 or 16 June 2025

Centre for Teacher Education (CTE)

University of Warwick

The Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Education is a supportive pathway for eligible, experienced teachers, school leaders and educational specialists to have their work-based learning assessed against the learning outcomes for academic credit towards our MA in Professional EducationLink opens in a new window qualification.

A time-efficient and economical alternative to full or part-time study for the first half of the programme, whilst refreshing and updating candidates’ academic skills in preparation for progressing to the final 18 month MA course.

As an experienced teacher or educational specialist, your skill-set is unique and the Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Education is designed to reflect that.

The programme runs as a five-month cycle every January-June and June-November. It comprises the submission of two portfolios related to Strategic Research and Effective Leadership and Mentoring. The portfolios can be completed together during the same five-month cycle, or separately through two cycles in consecutive years.

What support and access does the Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Education provide?

• An experienced mentor supporting the completion of the Postgraduate Certificate portfolio.
• You can access the University of Warwick library, giving you access to thousands of journals and online publications. Including those from the British Educational Research Association, the British Educational Leadership Management, the Administration Society and their international equivalents.
• Access to the Moodle Virtual Learning Platform and Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Education handbook.
• An Advanced Academic Skills workshop to help facilitate the completion of the required academic statements.

Class Size

Contact Hours

The programme runs as a five-month cycle every January-June and June-November. It comprises the submission of two portfolios related to Strategic Research in Educational Practice and Effective Leadership and Mentoring in Professional Practice. Applicants have flexibility within these portfolios and can focus on themes that are pertinent to school improvement and individual professional development opportunities.

For example, for the Strategic Research Portfolio an applicant can focus on a strategic aspect of school improvement by selecting a theme of interest to them and their school. For the Effective Leadership and Mentoring Portfolio an applicant might focus on exploring a theme within their SLT roles/responsibilities, ECT mentoring activities or subject leadership/SENCo/Partnership responsibilities.

Reading lists

If you would like to view reading lists for current or previous cohorts of students, most departments have reading lists available through Warwick Library on the Talis Aspire platform.

You can search for reading lists by module title, code or convenor. Please see the modules tab of this page or the module catalogue.

Please note that some reading lists may have restricted access or be unavailable at certain times of year due to publication dates. If you cannot access the reading list for a particular module, please check again later or contact the module’s host department.

Your timetable

Your personalised timetable will be complete when you are registered for all modules and you have been allocated to your lectures, seminars and other small group classes. Your compulsory modules will be registered for you when you join us.

You must hold a UK Bachelor's degree with Honours at 2:2 or above, or equivalent level.

• Band A
• IELTS overall score of 6.5, minimum component scores not below 6.0

There are no additional entry requirements for this course.

Two Portfolios, each with a unique 'module' theme:

An academic statement to accompany each portfolio.

Optional modules

There are no optional modules for this course.

There are no optional modules for this course.