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Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)

The Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) programme provides a professional secondary teaching qualification for graduates in a discipline that is a secondary teaching subject who aspire to become teachers, or who are currently teaching. Most of the courses for the PGCE are offered by distance and flexible learning and the programme can be completed in one year provided students have already passed ED152 and ED153 before commencing full-time study. Students doing the BA or BSc at USP who wish to take up the PGCE later are advised to include ED152 and ED153 as electives in their degree programs.

Admission Requirements:

To be admitted to a Postgraduate Certificate in Education a person shall:

  1. hold a University of the South Pacific or its equivalent (other than a BEd or BA/GCEd or BSc/GCEd or their equivalents) with specialisation in two of the following teaching subjects: Accounting, Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry, Computing Science, Economics, Home Economics, Geography, History, Literature and Language, Mathematics, Pacific Vernacular Languages, Physics and Technology.
  2. normally have a grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.5 in the 200- and 300-level courses in each of their teaching subjects;
  3. pass a student-teacher interview, and
  4. provide a character reference from a USP lecturer or the head or a senior teacher of their last school.

Note:  A student with a GPA marginally below 2.5 but who has a strong character reference and who has performed well at the interview may be admitted by the Dean of Arts and Law to the programme.

Programme Requirements:

  1. The Postgraduate Certificate in Education consists of eight courses plus a practicum (ED300) of 17 weeks.
  2. Students must pass ED300 in order to be eligible for the award of the PGCE.

Courses:

ED152*, ED153*, ED250 (or, for an Agriculture graduate, AG250*), ED252*, ED253*; plus ED300*, ED350 (or, for an Agriculture graduate, AG350*), ED354; plus ED359 or ED319.

* Also offered by distance and flexible learning through USP Campuses. ** Only offered by distance and flexible learning through USP Campuses





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