A candidate aspiring for admission to the Postgraduate Diploma in Education Programme

should hold at least a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma from a recognized institution

A candidate doing Postgraduate Diploma in Education shall take a total of minimum 20 units and a maximum of 32 units.  PGDE students are categorized into three groups/streams;

i. Stream A (20 units):
Applicants with two teaching subjects but lacking education courses to qualify them as professional teachers.

ii. Stream B (26 units):
Applicants with only one teaching subject. These applicants are supposed to take both education courses and some more 6 units of the subject that they are missing.

iii. Stream C (32 units):
Applicants without any teaching subject. They are supposed to take education courses (20 units) plus other 12 more units (6 from each teaching subject) to qualify as professional teachers.

1.1
General fees for the programme

1.2
Tuition fees per unit (or per 10 credits) for PGDE programme.

Upon successful completion of the programme it is expected that a candidate shall have acquired the following competences;

1. Knowledge:

Ability to;

• Relate philosophy with educational issues and analyse philosophy of education and teaching as a foundation of teaching profession.
• Analyse the various social and cross-cutting issues relating to education and its provision.
• Identify trends and practices in education across time and different regions or countries.
• Describe different methods of research used in education
• Demonstrate knowledge and an understanding on how to use a variety of teaching methods and techniques in his/her subject of specialization.
• Use different curriculum models and techniques in implementing curriculum and evaluating learners’ progress.

2. Skills:

Ability to;

• Apply leadership skills and education management and administration principles in classroom management and managing schools.
• Apply research methods and procedures in solving education problems
• Construct authentic learning assessment instruments for assessing and measuring academic achievement of learners.

Translate educational psychology theories into pedagogical considerations including learners’ cognitive and behavioural development

THE PROGRAMME ASSESSMENT

Candidates will be evaluated by using the following criteria.

·         Timed Test carrying 30%

·         Final Examination carrying 70%

·         Teaching Practice carrying 100%

·         Independent study and report carrying 100%