Level 6 Professional Graduate Certificate in Education

• Learners should be in a teaching role or have access to a placement with at least 250 hours of teaching practice over the duration of the course – 150 hours of direct teaching and 100 hours of teaching related activity.
• For Level 5 Cert Ed, applicants need to have a minimum L3 qualification in the subject they wish to teach.
• For Level 6 Prof Grad Cert Ed a degree is required.
• All applicants must also have L2 or GCSE in maths and English.
• Level 3 AET qualification is recommended as a foundation for this course but is not essential. Students will be expected to teach online also so good IT skills will be important.

Once initial eligibility is confirmed, applicants will be required to:

• Complete an online application via the University of Wolverhampton
• Attend and pass a panel interview
• Provide evidence of an appropriate teaching placement (if not already employed as an unqualified teacher)
• Have access to a suitably qualified subject mentor
• Undergo or hold an enhanced DBS check prior to starting the course