Currently completing second term as an NQT
Where are they now? Catching up with our former trainees in their NQT year It’s been a whirlwind! Since completing my PGCE year in June last year, so much has happenedand it’s almost surreal to find myself half way through my NQT year here at All Saints Catholic...
Pupils coding Lego robots on a visit to UoM
Tytus Murphy, currently a science trainee, describes a visit to the University of Manchester Science and Technology Challenge Day with pupils from his placement school.On Friday 10th January, year 8-10 students from across the North West gathered in the Department of...
Rebels (not) without a cause?
A few days into the PGCE, we were told that there would be a climate change march on 20 September, for which arrangements had already been made to allow us to join. Unusual it certainly was, not because of the permission we were given to ‘rebel’ and be absent from uni...
UoM conference 17 January 2020
The next UoM Inclusion and Inspiration conference will be held on Friday 17th January, 2020 from 9.15am until 4.30pm, starting in lecture theatre B, University Place, Oxford Road. The conference is free to attend and aimed at an audience of NQTs and RQTs, alongside...
Finally! A £9000 training bursary: the business studies teacher shortage
The teacher shortage in business education has become stark. Just 155 people are training to be business teachers in the UK in 2019/20 and only 80 of these are studying for their PGCE at a University. This is down from 170 last year and at a time when Department for...
What young people already know
Science trainees worked in three Partnership schools at the end of September as part of our 'Collaborative Teaching Day'. In each school they had the chance to team teach a class, with a focus on finding out what young people already knew and understood about a topic...
PGCE Historians get a curator’s tour of the Peterloo exhibition
The PGCE History students visited the John Rylands Library on Friday October 11th. The library is without doubt one of Manchester’s architectural gems and houses an impressive collection of archive material that students will be working with later in the year. Hosting...
PGCE Graduation 2019 – Tuesday 10th December @ 6pm.
Come and celebrate your fantastic achievement. We are looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible for your PGCE graduation in December. It’s a great opportunity to celebrate, and also to hear what you are doing and how things are going. If you are not able...
Mathematics and the world population
Maths PGCE reflect on the world population: How would the world population be distributed if the world was £1? Related Contact Us +44 (0) 161 306 6000 Find Us The University of ManchesterOxford RdManchesterM13 9PLUK Connect With...
PGCE Business Ed Alumni has PM to class…
Congratulations to former PGCE Business Education trainee Paul Fair [2017/18] for arranging a visit to his business studies students from the Prime Minister, Theresa May.GCSE pupils from Years 10 and 11 had done some prior work around how Brexit may affect business...


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