PGCE - Secondary

Train to become a qualified secondary school teacher in a range of subject areas. You’ll learn to motivate, challenge and inspire pupils while teaching the subject you love.

We have an excellent reputation with schools in the region and have been training highly skilled, inspirational secondary teachers for over 75 years.

We’ve been rated as ‘Outstanding’ in training primary and secondary teachers, the highest possible grade a provider can receive.

Overview

Our Secondary Post Graduate Certificate Education (PGCE) empowers you to motivate others to explore and understand the world. Expert tutors will challenge and support you to achieve the very highest levels of subject knowledge, pedagogy, and academic achievement. We offer a dynamic partnership with the placement schools in the region, and our employability statistics are a credit to the highly skilled, passionate teachers we produce. Whichever specialist subject you choose, you will be taught in small seminar groups and will discover academic and classroom strategies.

Inspire the future generation of learners by studying a PGCE in Secondary education at Worcester or through one of our regional hubs.

The University of Worcester has a rich legacy of high-quality teacher education. If you’re passionate about your subject, our Secondary PGCE course will give you the skills to share that passion with the next generation.

We are proud that our Secondary PGCE was rated ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted in March 2023. Ofsted identified that:

‘Trainees benefit from an exceptional learning experience at the University of Worcester. This experience instils in them a deep-rooted commitment to making a difference to the lives of the children and young adults in the communities they serve.’

Placements, university sessions and mentors will support your development and our trainees are ‘exceptionally well-prepared for their first teaching post’ (Ofsted, 2023)

Subject areas

At Worcester we offer a secondary postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) in a range of specialist subject areas.

Age phase: 11-16 with post sixteen enhancement

• Art and Design
• Design and Technology (Food)
• English
• Geography
• History
• Computer Science
• Maths
• Modern Languages
• Physical Education
• Religious Education
• Science: Biology
• Science: Chemistry
• Science: Physics

Age phase: 14-19

• Business and Business with Economics
• Psychology