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Nelson Mandela University

Post Graduate Certificate in Education in Further Education and Training Teaching

The Post Graduate Certificate in Education in Further Education and Training Teaching in Education is offered by Nelson Mandela University.

Program Length: 1 YEAR.

Post Graduate Certificate in Education in Further Education and Training Teaching offered by the Nelson Mandela University at the Faculty of Education

Purpose of the Learning Programme

This qualification has been approved in terms of the new Higher Education Qualification Sub-Framework (HEQSF).

The FET PGCE, as one year professional teaching qualification that “caps” an undergraduate degree (MRTEQ, 2011), aims to develop graduates and diplomates as competent, professional teachers able and committed to the enhancement of education in diverse high schools in South Africa and beyond. As such the programme aims to provide student teachers with the required knowledge, understanding and skills to enhance teaching and learning in two school subjects (two FET subjects). The Exit Level Outcomes and the associated assessment criteria are designed to engage with the teacher competencies provided by the Department of Education in the MRTEQ of 2011.

The PGCE students should, at the exit level of the programme, embody the following Exit Level Outcomes:

• Critically engage with disciplinary educational knowledge literature and discourses related to philosophy, sociology, history of education, psychology, politics and economics from an educational perspective in social responsible humanising ways
• Demonstrate the ability to organise, design, plan and implement systematic and effective teaching, learning and assessment in different educational contexts in a humanising manner pertaining to national school curriculum specifications at school based level.
• Demonstrate sound methodological and subject specific curriculum knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to facilitate effective teaching, learning and assessment in school related subjects in a humanising manner by coherently integrating educational theory, curriculum theory, subject discipline knowledge, teaching strategies and self-identity
• Demonstrate the ability to teach effectively in English as Language of Learning and Teaching [LOLT]
• Demonstrate conversational competence in isiXhosa

Career fields

Educator (Intermediate Phase)

Educator (Secondary Phase)

Duration: 

The qualification shall extend over at least one year of full-time study.