Course Content and Structure
The PGCE is a professional qualification normally taught at a university or other higher education institution, with much of the course time spent on placements in local schools. A trainee teacher will have to meet the Standards for Qualified Teacher Status and any course specific requirements to be awarded the PGCE. In England only, a trainee teacher also has to pass the QTS Skills Tests in literacy and numeracy. As of April 1st 2012, the ICT skills test was removed as a compulsary skill necessary to gaining QTS, in accordance with changes in legislation. The training provider will then recommend the trainee teacher for QTS to the relevant body:
- General Teaching Council for England - since 31 March 2012, replaced by the Teaching Agency
- General Teaching Council for Wales
or eligibility to teach to the:
- General Teaching Council for Northern Ieland
After gaining QTS, the candidate becomes a Newly Qualified Teacher (NQT) and embarks on an induction programme in their first post.
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