Loughborough's PGCE Physical Education programme prepares students to teach the 11-18 age range and is offered as a full-time, one year programme. It provides practical professional preparation for teaching in secondary schools and is designed and delivered in partnership with schools in up to 10 Local Authorities. The programme also offers 90 credits towards an MSc Education degree with a clear pathway for students to complete their master's within two years of teaching.
The PGCE represents both a standalone qualification and the first year (contributing half the credits) of an MSc Education with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). This therefore provides an opportunity for students to gain a relevant master’s degree during their early teaching career. On completion of the 36-week long PGCE Physical Education with Qualified Teacher Status element of the MSc Education, successful graduates will be qualified to teach children aged 11-18. This course is taught through the outstanding School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University.
Following the successful completion of a research methods course and a school-based research project, successful graduates will be qualified to masters’ level which, in addition to their Loughborough PGCE, will position them strongly in the broad field of physical education teacher. Loughborough has a strong tradition of teacher education and a history of successfully producing outstanding teachers who are in great demand by schools and colleges in the UK and overseas. Students will also have access to both the University’s outstanding sports facilities for the taught element of the course and a partnership of more than 40 schools in the region for the school-based element of the course.
The structure of the MSc in Education with Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) Physical Education has been uniquely designed to allow students to gain QTS and complete their master's degree by the end of their second year of teaching, at the same time as keeping their first year of teaching (Newly Qualified Teacher year) free from any academic commitments.
The first year of the degree is the PGCE (90 credits), at the end of which if students are eligible and they decide to continue with their masters study they can enroll onto the Research into Teaching and Learning module. This module is worth 30 credits and is completed prior to starting the NQT year. Following the NQT year students will enroll onto the final module: the Teaching Physical Education Research Project. This is a distance learning module and involves one to one supervision with researchers of international renown. Importantly this project module offers students the opportunity to continue their professional development by conducting research on a pedagogical innovation and development in the context of teaching physical education relevant to their work context. This module is worth 60 credits and completes the 180 credits required for the award of the MSc in Education with QTS Physical Education.
| Level | Masters |
| Discipline | Sciences |
| Duration | 12 months |
| Intakes | Oct |
| Application Fees | GBP 0 |
| Tuition Fees | GBP 19100 |
| Campus | Loughborough |
| Language proficiency (minimum) | |
| IELTS | 6.5 |
|---|---|
| TOEFL | 92 |
| PTE | 62 |
| Duolingo | 110 |
| Exam proficiency (minimum) | |
| SAT | Not Required / Waiver |
|---|---|
| ACT | Not Required / Waiver |
| GRE | Not Required / Waiver |
| GMAT | Not Required / Waiver |
Minimum GPA - 75%
256
--
371
--
QS Quacquarelli Symonds is the world’s leading provider of services, analytics, and insight to the global higher education sector, whose mission is to enable motivated people anywhere in the world to fulfil their potential through educational achievement, international mobility, and career development.
THE (Times Higher Education) has been providing trusted performance data on universities for students and their families, academics, university leaders, governments and industry, since 2004. We create university rankings to assess university performance on the global stage and to provide a resource for readers to understand the different missions and successes of higher education institutions.
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was first published in June 2003 by the Center for World-Class Universities (CWCU), Graduate School of Education (formerly the Institute of Higher Education) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and updated on an annual basis
The "Webometrics Ranking of World Universities" is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain. CSIC is among the first basic research organizations in Europe. The CSIC consisted in 2006 of 126 centers and institutes distributed throughout Spain.
