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Qualification
PGCE - Postgraduate Certificate of Education
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Location
Plymouth Marjon University
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
01-SEP-25
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Duration
1 year
Course summary
Course Summary
Our specialist PGCE in Secondary Education with Science (Biology) is a direct route to a career that helps pupils to make sense of the increasingly scientific and technological society in which they live. Science helps students to develop an awareness of the world around them, and to find answers to their questions. Our PGCE Biology develops a range of teaching styles appropriate to the delivery of Biology within the National Curriculum and GCSE/A Level specifications, including conceptual understanding and progressions in learning, purposeful practical work, sequenced learning steps and links to industry.
Our PGCE Biology prepares trainee teachers for a first appointment as a teacher of Science in a secondary school and enables them to assess current developments in the subject and their possible effect on teaching in schools. To develop as a teacher, you will be learning about how to instil in pupils a sense of intrigue and enable students to develop understanding and form questions based both on the knowledge they already have and the insight they wish to gain in the futures. Furthermore, our PGCE Biology trainees can take up ‘enhancements’ linked to other curriculum subjects or areas e.g. PSHE, primary phase or special education needs and diversity.
Although the subject specialism of this PGCE is biology, you will be required to teach biology, chemistry and physics at key stage three and four as part of your course as this reflects the organisation of Science teaching in the majority of Secondary schools.
What might you become?
Plymouth Marjon University is widely renowned for producing excellent teachers. We have superb links with over 300 partnership schools throughout the South West, London and overseas and our graduates teach in schools across the country.
Modules
Tuition fees
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£ 14,600per year
Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.
University information
Plymouth Marjon University
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University League Table
115th
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Campus address
Plymouth Marjon University, Derriford Road, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 8BH, United Kingdom
Subject rankings
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Subject ranking
61st out of 91 2
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Entry standards
/ Max 224122 55%69th
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 10079.0 79%43rd
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 43.36 84%6th
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