Reporter 5/8/98: Postgraduate Certificate in Education

Postgraduate Certificate in Education

The regulations for the Postgraduate Certificate in Education have been amended as set out below. The purpose of the amendments is (a) to increase the length of time that candidates are required to spend in school, (b) to make specific reference to the requirements of Section III (practical teaching ability), and (c) to allow candidates only one opportunity for re-examination (instead of two as at present). The regulations for the Certificate (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 524) have been amended, with effect from 1 October 1998, as follows:

Regulation 3.

By replacing in sub-paragraph (a) the words 'seventy-five days' by the words 'ninety days'.

By replacing in sub-paragraph (b) the words 'one hundred and ten days' by the words 'one hundred and twenty days'.

Regulation 10.

By amending the first sentence so as to read:

At the beginning of each academical year, not later than the end of the first week of Full Michaelmas Term, the Faculty Board shall publish by Notice in the School of Education and in Homerton College details of the requirements for each section of the examination.

Regulation 11.

By replacing in the second sentence the words 'two occasions' by the words 'one occasion'.

By amending the last sentence so as to read:

The general conditions for re-examination shall be determined by the Faculty Board; the Examiners shall inform a candidate who fails whether he or she is required to be re-examined in a particular section or sections, or in the examination as a whole, in order to qualify for the award of a Certificate.

The supplementary regulations for the Certificate (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 525) have also been amended, with effect from the same date, so as to read:

Section I. Subject teaching

For this section each candidate will be required to submit course-work on the teaching of his or her subject or subjects, in relation to one of the following: (a) the education of children of upper (7-11) or lower (3-8) primary school age; (b) the education of children of middle school age (7-14); (c) secondary education.

Section IV. Subject studies

Candidates taking this section will be required to offer either the subject area Mathematics or the subject area Science.

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