Course description
The Postgraduate Certificate in HE practice is an experiential work-based learning programme that addresses the early career development needs of HE professionals. You should therefore be someone who has a role in supporting teaching and/or student learning, being able to draw on this experience in discussion sessions and take back ideas from the course into your practice. Your development as an effective, reflective, and questioning practitioner through this cycle of drawing on practice and feeding back into practice is vital to the course and enables you to further develop your capacity to study and learn independently for the rest of your professional life.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
The PG Cert Higher Education Practice is open to graduates who are professionally engaged in a Higher Education setting who will be able to reflect on their practice in teaching and/or the support of learning of students in higher education.
You should ideally have an Honours degree in a relevant subject area from a UK university or an overseas university agreed by NARIC as equivalent and subject to IELTS and EU requirements. Consideration will be given if you have a lower-level qualifications but relevant range of professional experience. Here, the relevance of any professional experience that equates to degree level will be considered by the Programme Leader, with successful application determined by completion of pre-entry tasks.
International Students
Newman University is not licenced by the UK Government to sponsor migrant students under the Student route and is therefore unable to accept applications from international students wishing to study in ‘Blended’ mode. We will accept applications from international students wishing to study in ‘Distance’ mode.
Training Course Content
Modules
- Higher Education Practice
- Programme Design in Higher Education
- Academic Practice Development
Course delivery details
The Certificate comprises three modules:
- Higher Education Practice
- Programme Design in Higher Education
- Academic Practice Development
You can begin the course in either September or January (cohort number dependent) studying in either ‘Blended’ or ‘Distance’ mode.
Learning on the programme is supported through a variety of means:
- Fortnightly independent online activities.
- These provide material, activities, and opportunities for engagement in wider resources as the basis for discussion during our live study sessions. They also work directly to support your assessment tasks. Teaching is online and completed independently.
- Fortnightly live study afternoons.
- These build on the independent online activities, containing short inputs with extensive workshop and discussion activity explicitly linked to the module curriculum led outcomes. Teaching is ‘live’ meaning that you must be present as scheduled in your timetable to engage in learning activities together with your peers.
- Individual tutorials and peer observations.
- Peer observations to encourage discourse and debate around our shared and situated practices.
Expenses
Course fee UK students – £2,600
N.B. A minimum of 60 credits are required to complete the post graduate certificate.
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