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Teaching and Learning in Higher Education PG Cert

Home | Course Finder | Teaching and Learning in Higher Education PG Cert

The Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education is designed specifically for:

• HE lecturers, tutors and academics
• Those supporting HE in a FE setting
• Anyone working in HE, whose role includes significant responsibility for supporting student learning

It is a part-time experiential workbased learning programme that takes place alongside, and complements, employment supporting HE student learning. The three modules provide an opportunity for programme participants to gain knowledge, understanding and capabilities in learning, teaching, assessment and academic practice.

The programme seeks to develop practitioners with clear professional values, who understand teaching as facilitating learning and who are constantly seeking to improve their practice in a reflective and theoretically informed way.

The programme aims are to:

• Provide support in any educational problems you face
• Promote a student-centred approach
• Increase your understanding of the learning process so you can make informed decisions about course design and teaching methods
• Foster your reflective practice
• Support your development as a skilled teacher, researcher and scholar
• Encourage your engagement with policy, strategy and quality considerations
• Enhance your career management

• Entry Requirements
• Modules
• Assessment
• Related Courses

You will normally have the following:

• A first or second-class Honours Degree
• Current and ongoing experience of supporting the learning of HE students
• Current experience, or anticipated experience during the period of the programme, of curriculum and assessment design at HE level

Prior experience is valued on the PGCert. Those course members who have the equivalent of three years’ full-time experience in a related educational setting can claim accreditation of prior learning against a module towards the certificate.

Completion of the PGCert meets level 2 of the UK Professional Standards for Teachers in HE. Completion of the first module of the programme, ‘Supporting Student Learning’, demonstrates attainment of level 1 of the Standards. The PGCert is accredited by both the Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) and the Higher Education Academy. The certificate is accredited at Fellowship level with the HE Academy. The module ‘Supporting Student Learning’ provides Associate Fellowship with the HE Academy specifically for those for whom learning and teaching is a smaller part of their role in HE.

All members of the course team are experienced tutors who engage in pedagogic research and have received recognition for their excellent HE teaching.

The course believes that learning is best when it is active, and seeks to build understanding on the basis of individuals relating theory to their experience and when that understanding is shared, developed and tested through collaboration.

The programme is supported through a series of eight interactive study days. These offer the chance to experience and discuss a variety of learning activities. Regular lunchtime support sessions, e-learning materials, as well as peer, mentor and line manager support all feed into the learning of the programme. Each module is assessed by a portfolio based on your work facilitating learning in HE.

Each portfolio will demonstrate your engagement with the values of the programme and the specific learning outcomes of the module. The portfolios require a reflective commentary, linking examples of your developing practice, through critical reflection, to relevant theory and research. However, the majority of the material in the portfolio will be work you complete as a normal part of your teaching or learning support role.

It is also possible to go on from the PGCert to obtain a Masters in Higher Education by undertaking further modules with a HE focus or to complete a Masters in Education on the basis of generic modules within the Postgraduate Education Programme.