PGDE Secondary (Business Education) Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (Scotland)

Are you a graduate in a degree related to accounting, economics or business management? Are you looking for a new, inspiring, challenging, socially empowering and rewarding career? Have you thought about teaching? Consider our one-year PGDE Secondary (Business Education) course that will prepare you to teach business education in Scottish secondary schools and beyond.

Retraining and working as a teacher can be an incredibly rewarding experience. Not only does it offer you a quick and easy route to a new career, but it also offers you the opportunity to make a real difference in young people’s lives, whilst utilising skills and knowledge that you will have already acquired in your career journey so far.

Whether you're a recent graduate or an experienced professional seeking a career change, teaching offers a rewarding path to make a real difference in young people's lives while building on your skills and experience. If you're passionate about business education—particularly social justice, sustainability, and wellbeing—now is the time to gain the skills to transform young lives. Learn to help students evaluate the social, ethical, and global factors shaping local, national, and multinational organisations.

As a graduate of our unique course, you will help prepare young people to face the challenges of 21st-century citizenship in these fast-changing times.  

The PGDE Secondary (Business Education) course will engage you in a critical understanding of contemporary ‘real world’ issues. 

You will learn how to underpin your inclusive teaching practices with key themes of social justice, sustainability, and health and wellbeing, and to consider children’s rights critically, as well as how to plan for inclusive practices that enable all young people to participate.

More generally, you will learn how to engage young persons in ICT for business contexts, develop effective communication strategies, and build their financial awareness and understanding of human relations strategies, as well as their knowledge of enterprising life and employability skills, all of which are necessary for participation in twenty-first-century global citizenship.

Researching theories of leadership, organisational learning, and change will enable you to engage young people in the skills of independent learning, research, critical analysis, and problem-solving.  

You will also learn about the role you can play as a business education teacher to drive forward the discipline within its contemporary social, cultural, and political contexts.

Professional enquiry is an important aspect of the teacher’s role. On our course, we will teach you how to conduct research in your classroom, enabling you to make evidence-based decisions to support pupils’ learning.