Our postgraduate programs are designed to equip graduates with the research skills and abilities required to effectively react to challenges in learning and teaching/curriculum, leadership, governance and management, and education in general.

POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN EDUCATION (PGCE)

Admission Requirements

A three-year (360 credit Level 6 in the former 8-level NQF) university degree or diploma with courses in at least two appropriate fields of study that will allow the student to do teaching methods or curriculum studies in the school subjects and/or learning areas is the minimum qualification required for admission to a PGCE.

One of the teaching subjects should have been completed at least in the second year, and the other in the third year.

A teaching method or curriculum studies in a FET school subject should at the very least adhere to an appropriate academic field of study at the second-year degree level.

NOTE: Deviations from the above are subject to Senate approval.

• Accounting
• Agricultural Science
• Business Studies
• Computer Application Technology
• Economics
• Economic Management Sciences
• Mathematics
• Physical Sciences
• Life Sciences
• Natural Sciences.

Core/Fundamental/Elective

• Language Competence
• Principles of Learning and Teaching
• Psychology of Learning and Teaching
• Educational Studies 1
• Educational Studies 2
• Educational Studies.

Curriculum Studies Areas

• Except as provided for in Regulation E6.2.1 second bullet-(c), no student may take the curriculum studies course in an acceptable school subject unless he or she has already completed the number of modules equivalent to a second-year degree course in the relevant approved subject (for the degree).
• If the number of registered students is insufficient to make curriculum studies sustainable for that year, no curriculum studies will be offered.
  Students will be informed of this.

Duration

• The Postgraduate Certificate in Education Curriculum shall be completed in one academic year of full-time study or two academic years of part-time study.

Curriculum and Other Details

• For more details, download your copy of the 2021 Komani Faculty of Education and School Development prospectus.