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Professional Education
MSc Professional Education
Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Education (with the Nursing and Midwifery Council recordable ‘Teacher’ qualification for UK registered nurses, midwives or specialist community public health nurses)
Postgraduate Certificate in Continuing Professional Development in Higher Education
This course formally links the subject areas of health, social care and education by enabling those practising in health or social care to gain a teaching qualification.
This award allows lecturers both to qualify as teachers and ultimately obtain a postgraduate degree. Increasingly,practitioners in health and social care wishing to oversee the learning in practice of students on professional programmes need to hold a qualification at this level. This includes fieldwork teachers in socialwork; and mentors, practice educators and practice teachers in health care.
Course duration
Full-time
MSc: 1 year
Postgraduate Diploma: 2 years
Postgraduate Certificate:6 months
Part-time
MSc: 2-5 years
Postgraduate Diploma: 2-3 years
Postgraduate Certificate: 1 year
Location: Wrexham
Start month: September
Before you are offered a place on this course you will be required to complete a Criminal Records Bureau(CRB) form and pay the appropriate fee, so that a check can be made on your suitability for working with children and vulnerable adults.
Key facts
- Successfully completing the modules of the Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Development in Higher Education allows you to qualify for membership of the Higher Education Academy
- The course will enhance your research expertise, and is the ideal platform to develop your skills of evaluation and synthesis towards originality in thinking
- For practitioners registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, successfully completing the Postgraduate Diploma allows you to record the qualification of nursing, midwifery or specialist community public health nursing teacher with the NMC
- Successfully completing the modules Learning Teaching and Assessment in Higher Education and Reflective Practice in Higher Education allows a nurse, midwife or specialist community public health nurse to be recognised as holding a Practice Teacher qualification
- This programme is open to overseas students who wish to gain a high quality teaching qualification
Career opportunities
Complete the course and you can start looking for employment in roles where you need a recognised teaching qualification – in further or higher education, or in practice. Nurses and midwives completing the postgraduate diploma can record a teaching qualification with the NMC and seek employment in higher education, or as an educationalist in practice.
Course modules
Postgraduate Certificate
- Learning and Teaching in Higher Education – Reflection and Development
- Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education – Reflection and Development
- Academic Practice in Higher Education
Postgraduate Diploma
- Learning and Teaching in Higher Education – Reflection and Development
- Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education – Reflection and Development
- Academic Practice in Higher Education
- Research Methods in Health and Social Care
- Leadership and Professional Issues
- Negotiated Module in Education Practice and Development
If you wish to record a teaching qualification with the NMC, you’ll need to complete:
- Negotiated Module in Education Practice and Development (NMC Portfolio)
For the Masters degree in addition to the above:
Entry requirements
A professional qualification in health or social care and an honours degree in a relevant subject.
Assessment
Written work, including a dissertation and a portfolio.
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For more information
about our courses
please telephone
01978 293439
or email
SID@glyndwr.ac.uk
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