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PGCE Secondary Physical Education with Qualified Teacher Status

Sheffield Hallam University

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Course options

  • Qualification

    PGCE - Postgraduate Certificate of Education

  • Location

    Sheffield Hallam University

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    01-SEP-25

  • Duration

    1 year

Course summary

Course summary

  • Train to teach age 11-16 PE, with post-16 enhancement.
  • Attain a masters-level PGCE, or PCE, alongside your Qualified Teacher Status.
  • Gain vital hands-on experience of the school environment with 120 days' placement work.
  • Attain a deeper understanding of physical education, and train to impart your knowledge effectively.
  • Learn in a supportive vocational environment, with wide-ranging teaching methods.

This course allows you to excel academically, and impart your expertise and enthusiasm for PE to the next generation. You'll benefit from extensive field experience and gain a solid theoretical grounding. Upon graduation, you'll be fully equipped for a rewarding teaching career.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

The vocational nature of this course allows for the real-world experience needed for effective teaching, and you'll gain academic credentials to reinforce it. You can gain a MA-level PGCE, or a PCE, both of which entail full Qualified Teacher Status.

In order to gain these advanced qualifications, you'll spend 120 days across at least two schools, with close academic support and mentoring throughout, and benefit from wide-ranging teaching methods on-campus.

You learn through

  • 120 days of school-based training across at least two settings
  • seminars
  • workshops
  • lectures
  • observation
  • collaborative planning
  • one-to-one sessions
  • group work
  • practical work
  • independent study
  • written assessments

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in

  • teaching Key Stage 3 and 4 physical education
  • academic careers as researcher via Masters level study and PhD
  • local authority/voluntary sector work or research
  • non-government organisation (NGO) administrative and research posts
  • enrichment work with young people
  • more general graduate careers including, for example, retail management and the civil service

Many of our students go on into full-time positions at their placement schools. The course is vocational in nature, and our graduate employment rate is usually well in excess of 90%.

Tuition fees

Students living in Hong Kong
(International fees)

£ 17,205per year

Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.

University information

Sheffield Hallam University

Sheffield Hallam University

Sheffield Hallam University

  • University League Table

    63rd

  • Campus address

    Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Howard Street, Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 1WB, United Kingdom

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Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Education

    34th out of 91 3

    42nd out of 86 7

  • Entry standards

    / Max 224
    129 57%

    55th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    82.0 82%

    29th

    3

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.14 78%

    41st

    29

  • Entry standards

    / Max 213
    130 61%

    50th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    74.0 74%

    26th

    19

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.03 76%

    71st

    6

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