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PGCert

Education (Innovation in Learning and Teaching)

The Postgraduate Certificate Education allows professionals at all stages of their career to develop their understanding of a wide range of educational issues, debates and concepts.

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Key Course Details

  • Start Date

    September

  • Location

    Newport

  • Campus Code

    C

Fees

  • Home students

    £1,200*

  • Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.

The Postgraduate Certificate Education (Innovation in Learning and Teaching) aims to develop knowledgeable and reflective professionals who are able to draw on evidence-based practice in ways that will impact on the workplace and on outcomes for the children and young people in those services.

DESIGNED FOR

Designed to provide opportunities for students to develop their professional knowledge, skills and understanding and most importantly their capacity for critical thinking

Skills taught

  • Critical Thinking
  • Research
  • Leadership

Module Overview

Students can either study two 30 credit modules or one 60 credit module.

30 credit modules:

  • Promoting Excellence in Learning and Teaching 
  • Innovation in Curriculum Design 
  • Developing Digital Competence
  • Working with Diversity
  • Professional Learning 
  • Professional Learning through Action Research
  • Working with More Able and Talented Learners
  • Developing Learning in Organisation
  • Developing professional practices: numeracy and maths

  • Developing professional practices: literacy and communication

  • Investigating Language, Literacy and Numeracy for Learning 
  • International Perspectives on Early Childhood 

60 credit module:

  • Promoting Excellence in Learning and Development

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

Admission to the Postgraduate Certificate Education course normally requires one of the following:

  • an honours degree
  • a recognised professional qualification
  • an alternative qualification or relevant experience may be acceptable.

International applications welcomed:

We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence, please view our dedicated country pages.

English language requirements

International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component/TOEFL 72 overall and a minimum of 18 in reading, 17 in listening, 20 in speaking and 17 in writing or equivalent.

Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages.

If you have previously studied through the medium of English, IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.

If you do not meet the English entry criteria, please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages.

Contextual offers

We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended, for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer, and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.

USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.

 

We're here to help

Whether you a have a question about your course, fees and funding, the application process or anything else, there are plenty of ways you can get in touch, and we'd love to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.

 

Fees and Funding

UK Part-time Fee

£1,200

per 20 credits*

Further Information

Studying at university is one of the most significant investments you'll ever make. Whilst you’re studying, you’ll have two main financial obligations – tuition fees and living costs. There’s lots of financial help available from the University of South Wales and external funding sources, that may provide loans (which have to be paid back) and grants, scholarships and bursaries (that don't).

*Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits. Once enrolled, the fee is anticipated to remain at the same rate throughout the duration of your study on this course except as described below.

Please be aware that we may increase the maximum fee for home students on full-time undergraduate courses only where the Welsh Government increases the permitted level of inflation of fees. Fees for all students (including part-time, postgraduate and international students) may be amended in accordance with our applicable Fees and Debt Management Policy.  We will ensure that students are given clear, intelligible, unambiguous and timely information about our courses and costs in good time, ahead of the next academic year.

 

Fees and Funding Scholarships and Busaries Alumni Discount

Additional Costs

As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.

University Quality Assurance

At USW, we regularly review our courses in response to changing patterns of employment and skills demand to ensure we offer learning designed to reflect today’s student needs and tomorrow’s employer demands.

If during a review process course content is significantly changed, we’ll write to inform you and talk you through the changes for the coming year. But whatever the outcome, we aim to equip our students with the skillset and the mindset to succeed whatever tomorrow may bring. Your future, future-proofed.

Course Highlights

How you’ll learn

Each module is supported by 30 hours of lectures (10 x 3 hours) over a ten week period. 

Lectures are frequently delivered by key professionals in the field, and resources and reading lists are supplied to scaffold further self-study.

Teaching staff

  • Dr Matt Hutt, Course Leader
  • Amanda Kelland
  • Sharon Drew
  • Dr Kathy Evans
  • Dr Carmel Conn
  • Dr Susan Haywood
  • Sue Roberts
  • Ian Forth
  • Rachel Stubley
  • Dr Shirley Egley

 

Careers and Employability

Possible career paths

The Postgraduate Certificate Education (Innovation in Learning and Teaching) course helps students secure leadership roles within educational contexts, as well as helping them prepare for more ‘specialised’ inclusion/ ALN roles within schools.

Studying at USW

Our courses are designed with industry leaders and provide the practical skills and experiences industry demands. Our flexible courses reflect the need for life-long learning. If you value education in practice, not just in theory, then USW is for you.

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How to apply

There is an online application process for this course. Please choose the application form for your preferred start date and mode of study (i.e. full-time or part-time).

International admissions

Please see our international admissions advice for further information about how to apply as a prospective international student.