Coleraine,
United Kingdom
Type
Public
Degrees offered
Bachelor's Degree
PGCE Home Economics with Food and Nutrition and Nutrition and Food Science in Coleraine United Kingdom | Ulster University
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Coleraine United Kingdom
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Qualification
Graduate Certificate
Languages
English
Delivery Mode
On-Campus
Tuition (2025)
GBP
5,280
(c. USD7,065.43)
Attendance
Full-time
Full-time Duration
12 months
The Post-Primary PGCE is a full-time, year-long course designed to equip students for teaching careers. To complete the PGCE successfully, students must: identify and consider elements impacting curriculum design within specific school environments, comprehend learning processes in children and acknowledge educational influences including social, moral, psychological, and cultural aspects, create, deliver, and assess individual lessons, units, and comprehensive work plans, maintain effective classroom organization and management, employ diverse teaching strategies with appropriate resources for students across all ability ranges, including those requiring special education, ensure learning progression, differentiation, and continuity, implement both formative and summative assessment approaches, evaluate, document, and communicate student progress, enhance literacy and numeracy through subject instruction, foster critical thinking, decision-making, presentation, collaboration, leadership, and self-directed learning abilities, cultivate students' personal and social competencies, ensure equitable opportunities for all, establish positive interactions with students and faculty, collaborate with peers and fellow trainees while participating in school-wide initiatives, and enhance proficiency in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and new technologies for both personal and professional applications.
Destination of Study
Subjects of Study
Language Requirements
English
IELTS 6.0
Qualification Requirements
a. GCSE passes at Grade C or above in English and Mathematics (or equivalent qualification). (Please note Essential Skills Level 2 qualifications are not regarded as equivalent for entry to this professional course as the professional accrediting authority, the GTCNI, does not recognise them as equivalent). Students wishing to take Religious Education as an optional level 6 module must have achieved a GCSE pass at Grade C or above [or equivalent qualification] in that subject.
b. At least a 2:2 Honours (or above) degree directly related to Home Economics / Food and Nutrition / Nutrition and Food Science. Alternatively, applicants may possess a Master's degree that is linked to the specialist PGCE subject on offer. In the case of a combined Honours degree, at least 50% of the degree shall be in the specialist subject.
c. Two acceptable references must be supplied - one academic and one character.
d. Medical certificate of satisfactory health.
e. Applicants will be scrutinised by Access NI procedures to ensure that they do not have a criminal record and must also satisfy the University and the Department of Education regulations that nothing would legally prohibit them from working with children.
f. Evidence of good quality presentation and basic literacy skills are required throughout the application process. The application form will be examined for spelling, punctuation and grammar skills. Applicants will also be expected to complete a set piece of formal writing as part of the selection process. This is a timed piece and is required as part of the interview/selection process.
g. Applicants should comply with the DE Circular requirements as outlined in the hyperlink below, DE Circular requirements.
h. Demonstrate evidence of knowledge and interest in working with young people of postprimary age
IELTS 6.0 with no band score less than 5.5., TOEFL iBT - 80 with a minimum L - 17 R - 18 S - 20 W - 17, PTE Academic - 55 (with min. of 51 in each part)
b. At least a 2:2 Honours (or above) degree directly related to Home Economics / Food and Nutrition / Nutrition and Food Science. Alternatively, applicants may possess a Master's degree that is linked to the specialist PGCE subject on offer. In the case of a combined Honours degree, at least 50% of the degree shall be in the specialist subject.
c. Two acceptable references must be supplied - one academic and one character.
d. Medical certificate of satisfactory health.
e. Applicants will be scrutinised by Access NI procedures to ensure that they do not have a criminal record and must also satisfy the University and the Department of Education regulations that nothing would legally prohibit them from working with children.
f. Evidence of good quality presentation and basic literacy skills are required throughout the application process. The application form will be examined for spelling, punctuation and grammar skills. Applicants will also be expected to complete a set piece of formal writing as part of the selection process. This is a timed piece and is required as part of the interview/selection process.
g. Applicants should comply with the DE Circular requirements as outlined in the hyperlink below, DE Circular requirements.
h. Demonstrate evidence of knowledge and interest in working with young people of postprimary age
IELTS 6.0 with no band score less than 5.5., TOEFL iBT - 80 with a minimum L - 17 R - 18 S - 20 W - 17, PTE Academic - 55 (with min. of 51 in each part)
Tuition
GBP
5,280