Postgraduate Certificate Creative Education

Learning About Creative Education
The first unit, Learning About Creative Education, focuses on how students learn in creative contexts and enables you to explore inclusive and intercultural approaches to education. Using relevant academic literature, you will examine the characteristics of creative learning environments and guidance, and consider the role of assessment and feedback in effective learning. The unit also provides opportunities to compare the educational value of a range of learning technologies, and to consider ways of engaging and motivating students.

Analysing Creative Education
The second unit, Analysing Creative Education, explores the ways in which educational experiences can enable us to transcend personal and professional constraints, and examines your role in facilitating these opportunities. By relating your professional experiences to relevant academic literature, you will critically reflect on issues including:

• the role of assessment and feedback in effective learning,
• your role in quality assurance,
• appropriate and creative use of a range of learning technologies, and
• the wider social and policy context of creative education.

By the end of the unit, you will be able to critically reflect on your professional development needs and identify potential next steps.

Our course provides the opportunity to focus on developing teaching practice, at the same time as professional art and design practice. This dual professionalism is highly valued in FE and HE contexts.

You will gain experience of developing a small-scale research project provides experience of producing, writing and disseminating research.

Past participants have found this valuable when applying for practice-based research funding or writing PhD proposals.

A successful career in teaching or supporting learning in FE and HE contexts requires three key ingredients. These include: a subject discipline qualification (preferably at Masters level), significant professional art and design or professional support practice, and a teaching qualification

The Postgraduate Certificate in Education is the generally accepted teacher or supporter of learning qualification in the FE and HE sectors.

For those working in the FE sector - the Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Education covers the FE and skills sector mandatory content of the Diploma in Education and Training.

You may want to undertake further study or research to specialise even more.

The entry requirements depend on the pathway you select:

Entry requirements for the PgCert Creative Education

• Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTLLS)/equivalent (e.g. City and Guilds 730 or Certificate in Education) or,  

• BA (Hons) (normally first or upper second or equivalent)/international equivalent in a relevant discipline),  

• A confirmed teaching/supporting learning related workload of at least 40 hours for the duration of the programme.  This must be in a teaching/supporting learning role at a Higher Education/ Further Education and Skills establishment.  

• Your teaching/supporting learning workload must include student contact hours and assessment responsibilities* 

*In some instances, this requirement for teaching experience may be provided through 1 day per week of voluntary (unpaid) teaching support for UCA, subject to satisfactory interview with the relevant UCA manager or course leader. The PgCert Creative Education course team do not arrange placements. 

Entry requirements for the PgCert Creative Education Advance HE Fellowship Pathway

• Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector (PTLLS)/equivalent (e.g. City and Guilds 730 or Certificate in Education) or, 

• BA (Hons) (normally first or upper second or equivalent)/international equivalent in a relevant discipline), 

• A confirmed teaching/supporting learning related workload of at least 70 hours for the duration of the programme.  This must be in a teaching/supporting learning role at UCA, or an approved UCA collaborative partner.* 

• Your teaching/supporting learning workload must include student contact hours and assessment responsibilities. 

* If you do not meet this eligibility criteria, our PgCert non-fellowship pathway may be more appropriate for you. 

Additional information

Applicants working at UCA (including sessional staff) must, in the first instance, seek approval of their line manager to do the course. Line manager and Head of School/Department sign off will subsequently be needed.

Mathematics Level 2 for entry to the course isn't needed, but applicants should be aware that they may need this qualification to gain employment in FE and skills sector.

Portfolio requirements

These courses do not require a portfolio.

Due to visa requirements, this course is not available to students that require a Tier 4 (General) visa.

If you have another category of visa please contact us: internationaladmissions@uca.ac.uk to find out if you are eligible to study.