Subject area: Secondary Teacher Training

About Secondary Teacher Training

We have four routes into secondary teaching, the Postgraduate Certificate in Secondary Education (PGCE) - see below, the Graduate Teacher Programme (GTP), the Overseas Trained Teacher Programme (OTTP) and the Assessment Only (AO) Route to QTS. We work in partnership with schools in east London and beyond.

Our Secondary provision is rated Good with Outstanding Features by Ofsted (2010). We have also been recognised by Ofsted as having exceptionally strong partnerships with schools and colleges, delivering 'outstanding' training sessions and having a 'vibrant, highly productive' team of tutors and administrative staff dedicated to quality teacher training provision. Our schools partnership network covers a wide range of areas: inner city, suburban, mixed and single sex, inclusive, non-selective and selective, high achieving as well as those in more challenging circumstances.

We are one only of a few institutions that provide a Subject Knowledge Booster course to secondary PGCE and GTP students. To refresh subject knowledge over a much longer period of time we provide a Mathematics Enhancement course (MEC), a Physics Enhancement course (PEC), a Chemistry Enhancement course (CHEC) for potential maths, physics and chemistry teachers; and a 16 week Languages Enhancement course for potential French and Spanish teachers.

Full-time Home or EU eligible students studying on the Secondary PGCE programme in maths, physics, chemistry, general science, biology or modern foreign languages will receive a Teaching Agency (TA) bursary.