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Gain the expertise to support and enhance your work in digital and face-to-face teaching and learning contexts with our online Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE). This is an internationally recognised qualification designed in consultation with education professionals and external bodies to give you the skills to succeed in teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Graduates have worked in HE as academic teaching staff at all levels and in a range of roles to support student learning. Other opportunities include the development and delivery of innovative new forms of HE provision.
All applications are considered on an individual basis. You would normally be expected to hold an honours degree. Applicants with qualifications other than a first degree, and those without formal qualifications or accreditation but with substantial, relevant professional experience are also encouraged to apply.
As part of the application process, you will be asked to submit a description of your prior experience, motivations for studying the course and how you believe it will develop your career aspirations.
We expect applicants to be undertaking sufficient learner-facing teaching or student support activities in a Higher Education context during the course, whether in-person, online, synchronous or asynchronous and this could include seminars, lectures, assessment, curriculum design, feedback or other student support services, sufficient to be able to reflect on these during their own learning experience.
Candidates without a degree or formal qualification are also encouraged to apply. If you have prior learning or experience with this subject, you may even be able to apply for Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL).
If your first language is not English, you’ll need to take an English Language test. Falmouth accept:
IELTS – minimum overall score of IELTS 6.5 with at least 6.0 in Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening
TOEFL iBT (online test) – minimum of 88 overall and at least 21 in all 4 components
LanguageCert (online test) – a High Pass from the ESOL B2 Communicator test in reading, writing, speaking and listening (2 parts)
The university also accept a range of other recognised English language qualifications.
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ARTU Ranking (Out of 45 UK universities included in their table)
QS World University Rankings- QS Quacquarelli Symonds rankings data– (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
