courses, PGCE provision was considerably expanded in the 1950s and 1960s, notably in colleges of education, to meet the acute national shortage of teachers. With primary schoolteachers being in especially short supply, many PGCE primary courses were initiated in both university and public sector ...
The BEd and PGCE courses currently constitute the main routes into primary teaching in Scotland. Systematic study of the two routes and their functions within the overall teacher education system is important as it has a range of policy implications. Government, which ultimately pays most of the ...
education-based Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) students, all training to become early years teachers, were interviewed about their teaching at the start and end of their courses; at each point the Articled Teachers had spent about 75% of their time in schools and the PGCEs about...
The project upon which this article is based took place in a small university in the West of England, offering a one-year full-time PGCE programme in primary (ages 5–11) and early years education (ages 3–7) to 210 student teachers annually, together with a part-time route over 20 mo...
training courses and practising primary teachers. The authors set out the nature of primary education in England and the professional demands made on primary school teachers by parents, the children themselves, government agencies, society and the profession. Written by Primary PGCE tutors, practising....
Primary courses (BEd and PGCE, also BA (Education)The last six months has seen several significant developments both within this project and in this field of education inWales. In Wales, there have been moves towards highlighting EGCSD in school ethos and the curriculum. The WelshAssembly's ...
This research was conducted in response to the exit survey of a cohort of Primary PGCE trainee teachers at a UK University in a predominantly White area who indicated low confidence in teaching children from Black, Asian and other minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds at the end of their course....
you to critically engage with what you have read and apply it to your own teaching This is essential reading for students on primary initial teacher education courses, including university-based (PGCE, BA QTS, BEd), school-based (SCITT, School Direct) and employment-based routes into teaching....
Specific subject-knowledge for teaching may be enhanced by increased emphasis on first degrees and thus recruitment to primary PGCE courses, through the discriminating allocation of training salaries and as an outcome of the Secretary of State's description of the Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) ...
This article presents research into the beliefs of tutors and pre-service teachers in training on Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) courses with a PMFL specialism in England. It considers several widely reported aims of PMFL teaching, but focuses particularly on the balance between ...