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Qualifications needed for a PGCE

Qualifications needed
Qualifications needed

You must have a degree in order to be accepted on to a PGCE course, although you may be accepted with a recognised equivalent qualification.

In addition to this you must also have a grade C at GCSE level mathematics and English language (or equivalent) and if you want to teach at primary level you must also have a GCSE level C in a science subject.

Who will I be qualified to teach?

You can take a PGCE to teach at primary level (up to 14 years old) and you can take a PGCE to teach at secondary level (11-18) years old.

The secondary level PGCEs are also divided up in to subjects, for example mathematics or English.

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