Primary (PGCE - Graduates only) PGCE

Graduates of the PGCE Primary course will have the knowledge, skills, values and dispositions to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS) and be a professional teacher, ready to work in Wales and beyond.<br/><br/>The core content includes:<br/><br/><br/>- **Alternative setting** – an opportunity to experience education in its widest sense;<br/><br/><br/>- **Bridging** – the process by which practical and theoretical knowledge meet, and the transformative approach is enacted;<br/><br/><br/>- **Compulsory modules** – the co-constructed and co-delivered content (pedagogic and subject-related) of the programme;<br/><br/><br/>- **Electives** – a school-based and University-supported experience where graduates can elect to follow a more specialist line of inquiry in order to deepen curriculum knowledge;<br/><br/><br/>- **Partnership conference** – the opportunity to share best practice at a conference event in order that the partnership can be transformed;<br/><br/><br/>- **Qualified Teacher Status** – a compulsory professional pathway leading to the award of qualified teacher status;<br/><br/><br/>- **Welsh Language Skill Development** – a compulsory professional pathway to develop graduates’ confidence and competence in speaking Welsh.<br/><br/><br/>**Why choose this course?**<br/><br/><br/>1. UWTSD ranked 1st in Wales for Education (Guardian League Table 2022)<br/>2. Graduates are highly employable as qualified teachers.<br/>3. English and Welsh pathways available.<br/>4. Study in the state-of-the-art SA1 campus in Swansea.<br/>