Continuing Professional Development for Teachers

These courses are targeted at practicing UK teachers, with Qualified Teacher Status

We are highly committed to Continuing Professional Development here at the School of Education. We offer relevant, enjoyable and challenging CPD courses for teachers covering a wide range of curriculum and specialist subjects.

Our Continuing Professional Development Programmes:

Our Postgraduate Certificates are offered under the umbrella of the MA in Education: Learning and Teaching programme and, together, offer a valuable part-time route to a Masters degree for teachers and other graduate education professionals. All courses connect theory to practice to ensure that you are up-to-date with thinking in the area of the course focus and have the opportunities to apply these ideas to develop your current practice. Assignments are designed as practice-based tasks to support this connection between theory and practice. The tasks provide flexibility to explore areas of personal and professional interest to you.

All courses are led by an expert in the field and you will be provided with a personal tutor to support you through the assignments. You will also have access to a wide range of sources of support from the University of Leicester, including the highly acclaimed University library which specialises as a digital library to allow you maximum off-campus access to materials.

Completing 60 credits would allow you to graduate with a  Postgraduate Certificate; completing 120 credits would allow you to graduate with a Postgraduate Diploma and completing 180 credits would allow you to graduate with the highly valued MA in Education: Learning and Teaching.

You will have the opportunity to share ideas with colleagues from different local authorities, to use excellent library and computer facilities and support from experienced tutors in developing Masters level enquiry skills and practice-relevant knowledge.

Download the 'MA in Education: Learning and Teaching and Postgraduate Certificates' brochure for information on courses running in 2013-14 (PDF file)

National Scholarship Fund for Teachers

Applications for scholarships from the National Scholarship Fund for teachers will be taken between 8th and 25th April 2013.  Details are available from www.education.gov.uk/schools/careers/traininganddevelopment/funding

The scholarships are available to support subject or specialist development in the following priortiy areas:

• English
• Mathematics
• Science
• Special Educational Needs and Disabilities

We have MA course in all these subject areas and have had successful students using this fund to support their studies on this programme in the past.

These scholarships provide 50% of course fees, up to a total of £3,500, and are highly competitive.  Please contact us if you want help in completing your application.

A local new course for new teachers – what do you think?

‘Developing Pedagogy, Learning and Assessment’
The University of Leicester School of Education MA in Education programme team have ideas for a New/Recently Qualified Teacher 60 credit Postgraduate module and would be very interested to find out what you think about these.

We would love to know what you think…Please respond to the following 8 questions?