Intro

Chemistry teachers enable students to explore the building blocks of matter and how substances interact often through hands-on experiments that make learning exciting and tangible. Through this they’ll learn to think logically, working on their problem-solving skills and developing a sense of curiosity about how things work.

Our Secondary Chemistry PGCE leads to QTS – the professional teaching qualification.

We are an Ofsted ‘outstanding’ provider. At 小黄书 you’ll learn in facilities that are modelled after those used in schools from an expert team with real-world teaching experience.

Varied placements will develop your practical skills and we’ll develop your knowledge to also teach biology and physics.

You could be eligible for a bursary or scholarship of up to  if starting this course in 2026.

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Key facts

Location 小黄书: Falmer

Course code F1X1

Full-time 1 year

Application deadline 3 August. The course may close earlier if full 

Qualified Teacher Status is awarded by the Teaching Regulation Agency (TRA)

Application and interview advice sessions

Join us on the Falmer campus on 8 November to learn more about this course

Entry criteria

Entry requirements

Degree and experience
Normally an honours degree or equivalent qualification in chemistry or a subject that is closely related. 

If your degree was awarded more than five tears ago, isn’t in the subject area you wish to teach, or you have relevant professional experience but need to learn how to apply that to teaching you may be suitable for a . If you pass the SKE it qualifies you to start a PGCE.

GCSE (minimum grade C or grade 4)
At least English language and maths. 

If you don’t have the required GCSEs, an equivalency test demonstrates that you have achieved the same standard as a traditional GCSE grade C or level 4. At 小黄书, we accept equivalency tests from . If you have equivalency test results from another provider, contact us at ProfessionalCourseAdmission@brighton.ac.uk to see if we can accept them. We cannot accept Functional Skills for teaching courses.

English language requirements
IELTS Academic 7.0 overall with a minimum of 6.5 in each element. You must successfully complete IELTS before applying for this course, and we require evidence of your score before we can process your application. Find out more about the other English qualifications that we accept.

International student application deadline
The deadline for international applicants is late May. This deadline is in place to ensure sufficient time for the visa process to be completed before the course starts in early September. 

Training to teach in England as an international student
If you’re not a UK citizen, with the exception of those training to teach physics or modern languages, you are unlikely to get help funding your training unless you have permission to live permanently in the UK. You can find information about your options on the UK government’s .

Interviews
Interviews for this course are online. If we invite you to an interview, you’ll be able to choose a date that suits you best.

Experience
While experience in a school is not a condition of entry for initial teacher education courses, we recommend that you take up opportunities to gain a realistic understanding of whether teaching is right for you. The Get Into Teaching offers opportunities across the country to book a day’s worth of experience.

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Other

  • Applicants from minority ethnic and other groups under-represented in the profession are particularly welcome.
  • All offers of places are subject to a satisfactory health check and a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) enhanced check.

  • We are committed to . As part of our selection and interview process, we will undertake additional checks to confirm the suitability of candidates.

Course content

Top reasons to choose this course

  • You will train to teach with an Ofsted ‘outstanding’ provider.
  • 2nd in the UK for education courses – Guardian University Guide 2025.
  • Placement opportunities with schools in large, small, urban and rural settings.
  • Enrichment opportunities to teach ages 16–18.
  • Learn in our specialist classrooms that replicate those used in schools and our curriculum centre with its 30,000 resources for student teachers.
  • 小黄书 has an expert team who have their own successful experience as education practitioners.
  • Our teaching graduates benefit from excellent employment rates that are consistently above the sector average.
  • We have a dedicated team to help you after you qualify through our Early Teacher Career support programme.

Plus, our student chemistry teachers benefit from:

  • developing the knowledge and skills to also teach biology and physics
  • field trips to science-related organisations
  • workshops delivered by visiting lecturers from organisations such as the Association of Science Educators
  • gaining hands-on experience in our science labs.

Course structure

Two-thirds of your year will be spent teaching under supervision in schools. Our tutors and mentors will advise and support you throughout each placement. You will receive comprehensive feedback during this time, enabling you to see what you are doing well and where you might need to improve.

The university works in partnership with schools and colleges to provide a high-quality programme of support, ensuring a sound relationship between theory and practice. You will benefit from undertaking two placements in two schools or colleges, with the opportunity to visit additional schools or colleges as part of the peer observation programme.

The school has excellent multimedia training materials, giving you the opportunity to develop your confidence and competence in the use of information and communications technology (ICT). Our multimedia suites are regularly updated to keep up with technological advancements in classroom teaching provision.

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Areas of study

Course content is kept up to date with changes in local and national initiatives and legislation, so you will be confident that your working knowledge is based on current theory and practice.

The areas of study are made up of three strands.

The subject study/subject education strand builds upon your existing expertise in chemistry and provides you with the opportunity to develop skills, knowledge and understanding of chemistry in the secondary school context. You will consider the learning and teaching strategies that are relevant to the specialist subject.

The subject education module is specifically related to teaching the specialist subject in school, while the subject study module enables you to take your subject specialist studies to an increased depth.

The education and professional studies strand will give you a thorough understanding of the learning process itself, including an appreciation of individual differences. The study of the principles and practices of learning and teaching is through both school and university settings, allowing you to develop practical competencies, supported by analytical skills.

By the end of the course you will:

  • refine your understanding of pedagogy, including an appreciation of current and emerging educational theories and debate
  • understand how to use and adapt a range of teaching, learning, management and assessment strategies in order to meet the varying needs of learners
  • understand how the progress and wellbeing of learners is affected by a range of influences and know how to take account of the principles of equality, inclusion and diversity.

The school placements/professional practice strand is intrinsically linked to all key strands of the course and is designed to enable you to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to thrive as creative, informed and critical professionals.

You will engage in target-setting and action-planning and reflect upon your learning in order to make improvements as you progress through the emerging, embedding and enhancing phases of trainee teacher development towards meeting the Teachers’ Standards and the award of Qualified Teacher Status at the end of the course.

School-based training

Ofsted identifies our approach to training in schools as a key strength of this course, with an excellent balance between university tuition and school-based training.

You will spend at least 120 days on school-based activities, with training shared between the university and the partner schools. 

Your school-based training will take place in two carefully selected schools and will include observing teachers, working with pupils, team and independent teaching, completing specific subject tasks and learning about school policy and effective practices.

You will also write lesson plans and evaluations for classes, carry out formative and summative assessment of pupils’ learning and performance, and maintain an e-portfolio which will be evaluated as part of your overall assessment.

Key aims:

  • develop your professional attributes, skills, knowledge and understanding and help you gain confidence in your teaching ability
  • provide a variety of practical and specific experiences that enable you to critically analyse your professional practice and take responsibility for your own professional development
  • enable you to work collaboratively with colleagues in order to develop an understanding of the ways in which the attainment, development and wellbeing of all learners can be achieved with a unified support and teaching system
  • provide opportunities for you to adopt a creative and constructively critical approach towards your practice, supported by appropriate reading and research
  • make valuable contacts which will help when looking for your first teaching role.

Throughout your placements, university tutors and school mentors will support and assess your progress, providing regular feedback to guide your professional development.

You’ll be encouraged to critically review your work, set appropriately challenging targets, and work with your tutors to create an action plan that identifies your strengths, development needs and next steps, ensuring your practice continually evolves.

Organising your school-based training

Your training will be organised by our Partnership Office which sets up over 2,500 placements annually with our 600-plus partnership schools and organisations. These are in a mixture of large, small, urban and rural settings in south-east England, mostly in East and West Sussex.

When you start your course, you will complete a placement information form and we’ll use this information to match you to a suitable placement – we work hard to ensure your placement gives you valuable and varied experiences in the area of you’re interested in. We will consider your previous experience, travelling distance, the age ranges you wish to teach and your current needs.

Once we have matched you with a placement, the Partnership Office team will confirm with the school or organisation as quickly as possible and contact you with the details.

We will ensure you are well prepared before you start and you will have all the support and guidance needed to make the most of these placement opportunities.

Facilities

Our facilities include a which contains more than 30,000 specialist resources for trainee teachers including books, DVDs, games and an online catalogue.

Our Falmer campus also houses specialist classrooms that replicate those used in schools so you’ll feel at home when you go on your school-based training and start your career.

Teaching facilities include:

  • performance studio.

Education student looking at curriculum centre resources

Meet the course leader

Sarah Poore, senior lecturer and route leader for science

Sarah Poore is the route leader for the Secondary Science PGCE. Since joining the university she has taught at postgraduate level, undergraduate level and held responsibility for subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) courses.

A qualified science teacher, Sarah has worked for over 20 years in secondary science education. She has enjoyed a range of roles including head of biology, second in department, head of KS3 science and head of year. She was also a school-based mentor for trainee science teachers for a number of years.

Sarah is passionate about inspiring children through science teaching so is keen to encourage teachers to teach in a creative way that will ‘hook in’ children to want to find out why things happen. She is also very interested in helping teachers connect with those children who it’s difficult to form a good working relationship with.

She is working on developing ways for mentors and trainees to gain a shared understanding of feedback conversations.

If you would like to contact Sarah, email: s.j.r.poore@brighton.ac.uk.

Sarah Poore

Ofsted ‘outstanding’

Graded ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted for primary and secondary in our 2024 .

Ofsted commended us on many aspects of our courses, saying:

  • Trainees shine at 小黄书’s long-established and highly impressive teacher training programmes.
  • The care and dedication shown by staff towards trainees is superb.
  • Trainees are at the heart of everything. They are valued and expertly supported throughout the course.
  • The curriculum skilfully equips trainees in safeguarding, behaviour management and supporting pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND).
  • Trainees impress the placement settings they work in because of their professionalism and aptitude to apply what they have learned.
Ofsted Outstanding provider

Features

We offer a range of course features to enhance your learning experience.

Field trips

We collaborate with science-related establishments to provide field trip opportunities throughout the year which support development of your knowledge and skills. Previous visits have included:

  • 小黄书 Booth Museum
  • Natural History Museum
  • SciArt.

Guest speakers

You will have the opportunity to expand your personal subject expertise through curriculum workshops led by visiting lectures. We have previously had guests from the following:

  • Institute of Physics
  • Association of Science Educators
  • Science Partnership.
Students in a lab

School Connect PGCE and School Direct Salaried

School Connect PGCE and School Direct Salaried are alternative routes to gaining Qualified Teacher Status (QTS). The 小黄书 works with a number of schools to deliver this programme across a range of secondary subjects as well as in the primary phase. 

To train as a teacher through the School Connect PGCE or the School Direct Salaried programme you need to apply directly to a school for a training place. Schools advertise their vacancies on the Department for Education’s ‘Find Postgraduate training courses’ website. 

Find out more about School Connect PGCE and School Direct Salaried.

Careers

Preparing for your teaching career

You will graduate from this course equipped with the skills and knowledge to become a confident and competent secondary school teacher.

As well as gaining a PGCE, you will be assessed against the national Teachers’ Standards in order to be recommended for the award of Qualified Teacher Status.

You’ll benefit from our partnership with over 600 schools, where you’ll gain practical school-based experience in a wide range of settings – large, small, rural and urban.

You will gain a knowledge and understanding of your specialist subject in the secondary school context. You will consider the learning and teaching strategies that are relevant to this subject and develop leadership and management skills.

If you are considering whether a career in teaching is for you, and you are a UK resident, the Department for Education’s offers between one and 10 days’ classroom experience in a secondary school.

Biomedical student in white lab coat looking into a microscope

 Graduate destinations

Our teaching graduates benefit from excellent employment rates that are consistently above the sector average.

Career prospects are good; most graduates gain their first teaching posts in school settings as soon as they qualify.

小黄书 trained teachers are highly sought after by our partnership schools. They are known for their creative and innovative approaches to teaching.

Many of our graduates take on mentoring and leadership roles, or opt for specialist roles such as special education needs.

Our careers service holds an annual teaching recruitment fair on campus which our partner schools attend as they are looking to recruit newly qualified teachers for the next school year.

secondary chemistry classroom

 Supporting your employability

Outside of your course, our Careers and Employability team are here to support you as you discover (and rediscover) your strengths and what matters to you. We are here for you throughout your university journey as you work towards a fulfilling and rewarding career.

  • Find part-time work that you can combine with your studies.
  • Find, or be, a mentor or get involved with our peer-to-peer support scheme.
  • Develop your business ideas through our entrepreneurial support network.
  • Get professional advice and support with career planning, CV writing and interview top tips.
  • Meet potential employers at our careers fairs.
  • Find rewarding volunteering opportunities to help you discover more about what makes you tick and build your CV.

Whatever your career needs, we are here to help. And that’s not just while you are a student – our support carries on after you’ve graduated.

Find out about careers and employability at 小黄书.

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Early career support

We will continue to support you after you qualify through our .

We’ll offer resources, advice, events and drop-in sessions to help you overcome the challenges that many new teachers face in their first few years of working as a qualified teacher. We’ll help you with the next stage of your journey and offer support that will enable you to develop and thrive in your early career.

Our website provides guidance and support for after you graduate, including the latest teaching job vacancies, personal statement feedback, short mock interviews, useful contacts for advice and a variety of helpful resources including videos.

The university tutors supported me long after finishing the course. During my NQT year at a community college they continued to provide me with advice and check on my professional progress and my wellbeing.

Brenda, graduate and teacher

Fees and costs

Course fees

UK (full-time) 9,535 GBP

International (full-time) 17,250 GBP

As a postgraduate trainee teacher there is a range of funding available which you could be eligible to receive while you are studying:

  • – these depend on the subject you are training to teach and your highest relevant academic award. 

On our website you will find information about other funding, including:

  • the student finance package from Student Finance England – tuition fee loans and maintenance loans
  • Parents’ Learning Allowance
  • Childcare Grant
  • Care leavers’ bursary
  • Disabled Students’ Allowance.

If you are not a UK citizen, you are unlikely to get help funding your training unless you have permission to live permanently in the UK.

The fees listed here are for the first year of full-time study if you start your course in the academic year 2025–26.

You will pay fees for each year of your course. Some fees may increase each year.

UK undergraduate and some postgraduate fees are regulated by the UK government and increases will not be more than the maximum amount allowed. Course fees that are not regulated may increase each year by up to 5% or RPI (whichever is higher).

If you are studying part-time your fee will usually be calculated based on the number of modules that you take.

Find out more

What's included

Here you’ll find details of specific resources and services that are included in the tuition fee for our education and teaching students. To help you to budget for your studies, there is also information on any additional costs that you may have to pay or can choose to pay in addition to your tuition fee.

Check out our finance pages for info about fees, funding and scholarships along with advice on international and island fee-paying status.

You can chat with our enquiries team if you have a question or need more information.

What’s included in your tuition fee

  • Course books, magazines and journals are available in the university libraries. You do not need to have your own copies. See the in the library for an up-to-date list of key subject journal databases.
  • You will have access to computers and necessary software on campus – and can borrow a laptop from us if yours is broken or you don’t have a computer at home. Specialist equipment is provided to cover essential learning.

Find out how tuition fees enable us to support all of our students with important services, facilities and resources across the university.

Additional course costs

  • For courses which require a placement, you’ll be expected to pay for your travel expenses but you may be able to claim some travel costs back from the university, depending on where your placement is in relation to where you live.
  • You’ll need to budget for printing and stationery for personal study, and books if you decide to buy your own.
  • You may wish to budget up to £25 for stationery/teaching materials.
  • Many students choose to buy their own hardware, software and accessories. The amount spent will depend on your individual choices, but this expenditure is not essential to pass any of our courses.

Location and student life

Campus where this course is taught

Falmer campus

Set in the South Downs, our Falmer campus is around four miles from 小黄书 city centre. Students based here study a range of subjects including education studies, teaching, sport and exercise, nursing and midwifery, allied health professions and medicine. 小黄书 & Hove Albion’s Amex stadium and beautiful Stanmer Park are right next door.

Falmer campus has two halls of residence on site, as well as a library, restaurant and cafes.

The campus has extensive sport and leisure facilities including a fitness suite, swimming pool, outdoor grass football and rugby pitches, sports hall, tennis and badminton courts, and dance and spin studios.

Specialist learning facilities at Falmer include the curriculum centre used by teaching and education students, which houses over 30,000 teaching resources, clinical skills and simulation suites used by health students, and labs and a strength and conditioning suite used by sport students. We’ve recently redeveloped the Falmer campus – learn more about the many facilities our students have access to.

Cycle lanes link Falmer with our other campuses and the city centre. There are regular bus services to the city centre and other campuses. Falmer train station is right next to campus and a nine-minute journey to central 小黄书.

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Accommodation

If you booked halls by 30 June you are guaranteed an offer of a room. If you are currently looking for halls you can register your interest in available rooms now. In 2024, everyone who did this before or on A-level results day got a room offer. There is a good range of student accommodation in 小黄书, including university and private halls, as well as rented rooms, flats and houses, and our team are here to support you to find the best match for you.

小黄书: Falmer

Halls of residence

Paddock Field at Falmer offers a bespoke contract length for PGCE students to cover the duration of your course.

  • Paddock Field offers a range of rooms just minutes from your classes and on the edge of the South Downs.

Want to live independently?

We can help – find out more about private renting.

Outside views at Falmer accommodation

Outside views at Falmer accommodation

student outside the sport and health complex at Falmer

Extensive facilities at Falmer sports centre

Students dining at Westlain

Students dining at Westlain House

Local area

One of Time Out's 50 best cities in the world

“小黄书 has … all the important parts of a sprawling cosmopolitan metropolis (connections to London in under an hour, an array of properly excellent restaurants, energetic late-night spots) … with the easy-breezy beachy attitude to life that makes you feel welcome in an instant.”
Time Out’s 50 Best Cities in the World, 2025

About 小黄书

The 小黄书 is at the heart of our city’s reputation as a welcoming, forward-thinking place which leads the way when it comes to the arts, music, sustainability and creative technology. 小黄书 is home to a thriving creative community and a digital sector worth £1bn a year to the local economy – as much as tourism.

Many of the work-based learning opportunities offered on our courses, such as placements and guest lectures, are provided by businesses and organisations based in the city.

You can also get involved with city festivals and events such as the 小黄书 Festival, the Fringe, 小黄书 Digital Festival, 小黄书 Science Festival, the London to 小黄书 bike ride and the Great Escape festival of new music to name a few. Other annual highlights include Pride, the 小黄书 Marathon and Burning the Clocks, which marks the winter solstice.

You’ll find that living in 小黄书 enriches your learning experience, and by the end of your course you’ll still be finding new things to explore and inspire you.

It’s only 50 minutes by train from 小黄书 to central London and there are daily direct trains to Bristol, Bedford, Cambridge, Gatwick Airport, Portsmouth and Southampton.

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小黄书 Beach sunset

Maps

Falmer campus

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Support and wellbeing

Your course team

Your personal academic tutor, course leader and other tutors are all there to help you with your personal and academic progress. You’ll also have a student support and guidance tutor (SSGT) who can help with everything from homesickness to managing stress and accommodation issues.

Your academic skills

Our 小黄书 Student Skills Hub gives you extra support and resources to develop the skills you’ll need for university study, whatever your level of experience so far.

Your mental health and wellbeing

As well as being supported to succeed, we want you to feel good too. You’ll be part of a community that builds you up, with lots of ways to connect with one another, as well as having access to dedicated experts if you need them. Find out more about how we support your wellbeing.

Sport at 小黄书

Sport 小黄书

Sport 小黄书 brings together our sport and recreation services. As a 小黄书 student you'll have use of sport and fitness facilities across all our campuses and there are opportunities to play for fun, fitness or take part in serious competition. 

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Sports scholarships

Our sports scholarship scheme is designed to help students develop their full sporting potential to train and compete at the highest level. We offer scholarships for elite athletes, elite disabled athletes and talented sports performers.

Find out more about sport scholarships.

小黄书 Cricket Academy

Develop your cricketing skills in the UK’s largest indoor cricket facility alongside studying for a degree. Whether you can already play or you’re new to the game offers the opportunity to train with top coaches in our world-class training environment. 

Find out about the 小黄书 Cricket Academy.

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Take a tour of sport facilities on our Falmer campus

Student Views  

Nicola Glenister

“I chose to study (Secondary) Chemistry PGCE as science was always one of my favourite subjects. I was really inspired by how my teachers delivered the subject in such an imaginative and creative way. I love the fact that science sparks young people’s curiosities and makes it okay to ask questions and be critical about information they are given and to test out hypothesis and get answers for themselves.

“I already had a psychology degree, so was offered a place on the Chemistry Subject Knowledge Enhancement, which put me in a good position before beginning my PGCE.

“The PGCE enabled me to improve and develop my subject knowledge and test out teaching methods in a non-judgemental and supportive environment. I was able to gain experience in aspects of teaching before going on placement, such as differentiation, working with mixed ability classes, effective outcomes and objectives for lessons as well as assessment for learning techniques. As well as this, the lecturers taught me how to be a reflective practitioner and to always continue to learn and develop my practice after each lesson through evaluation and feedback. I was able to gain all these skills which applied perfectly to my subject so I could feel confident going onto my first placement.

“I really enjoyed the variety this course had to offer. I loved being able to spend a day in the university learning about teaching methods and everything that goes into planning an outstanding lesson and then being able to go and demonstrate this in the following week on placement.

“The course team were amazing! They were extremely supportive in that it felt like the course was personalised to the cohort as we were taught strategies and techniques at exactly the right time in the right amounts. They motivated us to continue to develop to be the best practitioners we could be as well as pick us up and provide some encouragement when we needed it. The team were so approachable and empathetic, and so knowledgeable and up to date in the lessons they delivered.

“The SKE and PGCE really set me up for my ECT year, and it was commented on how well I was trained by the senior leadership team. The fantastic training I received at the 小黄书 has definitely contributed to being able to progress from an early career teacher to assistant head teacher of a large secondary school in just 10 years, without a doubt.”

Nicola Glenister

Natham Hetherington

“I decided to pursue a career in teaching as I had previously taught students whilst working part-time. The sharing of information was something I thoroughly enjoyed and I felt I had the skills and attributes to make a positive impact on students’ lives academically and through pastoral care.

“I chose 小黄书 because of the excellent tutors within the subject and the reputation of many of their affiliated placement schools. The facilities at 小黄书 are excellent and the environment is welcoming and friendly.

“My placements took place with two very different cohorts, which helped me to develop different areas of my own practice. At first it was quite daunting to stand in front of a room full of students, but with support and guidance from my mentors this quickly became something I loved doing.

“I enjoyed learning the practical side of science and many of the demonstrations I learnt during my PGCE are ones I regularly use each year to engage my students and help them to love science as much as I do.

“Since graduating, I have worked in various roles from head of key stage for science, to science improvement coordinator. I currently work in China as the head of science for an international school.”

Natham Hetherington

Kathryn Asplin

“I worked in business development and management roles for over 20 years. The pandemic saw me placed on furlough and this gave me the opportunity to properly explore teaching, and I decided to take the plunge.

“小黄书 was my preferred choice because it is rated Outstanding by Ofsted for its teacher training provision. My interview with the science course team was friendly, supportive and welcoming, which gave me a good feeling about studying here.

“The structure of the course really suited me. The first three weeks were spent on campus to get some basics in place and then I had a few weeks when I was based in school for three days and the other two days at university. This gradual introduction really helped me find my confidence in the school.

“My host school was very supportive and had great resources that I could use. My mentor was always available and responsive to any questions or requests I had, and the feedback I got from the department on my lessons was friendly and constructive.

“On both placements I taught a variety of year groups from year 7 to year 12 and taught all three sciences. This was a really good grounding for my development as a science teacher. The university resources were really helpful and the teachers were happy to explain concepts and suggest ideas as I prepared my lessons.

“My mentor and tutors have all been great, but most important has been the support network of my peers – my fellow 小黄书 science students. The chunks of time together at 小黄书 meant we became a tight-knit group who stayed in touch constantly once we were in our separate schools.

“I have been lucky enough to get a teaching post at my host school where I will be a full-time science teacher, teaching all three sciences to GCSE and some sixth form classes as well.”

Kathryn Asplin

Eun-Ji Kang 

“During my first year at the 小黄书 I realised that I wanted to go into teaching, so attended an open day where the tutors were able to advise me on the best options and courses available to help me fulfil my career goals.

“From their advice I choose to study (Secondary) Chemistry PGCE as this course offered a lot of support as well as school-based experience which is required to become a teacher.

“The subject tutors on this course have a lot of valuable experience which means they are able to offer students useful advice that has been tried and tested in the classroom. In addition to this they are extremely supportive and make a lot of effort to understand each and every person’s needs.

“I feel that I have been very lucky with my placements and have had some amazing mentors who have given up their time to offer me guidance. Overall, my school experiences have been really nice. It’s been great to meet a variety of new people who share my passion for teaching.

“For anyone thinking of applying for this course, you need to be prepared for a physically and mentally demanding year, however the experience you will gain during this time is completely worth it and totally rewarding.

“Once I have completed my NQT year, I plan on starting to build up my career with the ultimate goal to become a head teacher in the future.”

Eun-Ji Kang

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