Senate

Senate

Subject: Award of PGCE on MSc in Education with Qualified Teacher Status

Origin: Learning and Teaching Committee 15 February 2007 (unconfirmed minutes)

Learning and Teaching Committee considered a recommendation that students entering Year 2 of the MSc, having completed the PGCE element, be permitted to retain their PGCE award (whereas it was previously anticipated that they would relinquish the PGCE to avoid a 60-credit element of double-counting).

It was noted:

(i) that students’ international employability would be limited if they did not possess the PGCE, as the PGCE was the only external teaching qualification recognised by governments such as New Zealand, Australia and Canada;

(ii) that various other universities including Leicester and Nottingham would allow students to retain their PGCE when awarding a Masters;

(iii) that it would be unfair to Loughborough students to have to relinquish their PGCE when students entering Year 2 of the Masters with a PGCE from elsewhere were allowed to retain theirs;

(iv) that the Masters transcript could indicate that the student had begun the Masters with advanced standing of 60 PG credits from a previous PGCE.

It was resolved to recommend that the MSc in Education with QTS be considered a special case such that students entering Year 2 of the programme on the basis of a PGCE award from the University are not required to relinquish that PGCE award.

Author – Robert Bowyer

Date – February 2007