Secondary mathematics trainee Najma Mohammed created her own website and used social media to share her passion for maths, focusing particularly on providing additional support for female BAME students.Due to the mass school closures during the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s...
Trainees' completion of the PGCE course this year demanded a celebration, and the circumstances required that this take place on Zoom. The PGCE 2019-20 Cohort and staff of over 200 assembled to celebrate on Friday 12th June, with a magnificent send off including...
Delivering PGCE courses ‘remotely’ over the past three months has certainly presented challenges at times, but many of these have created opportunities in turn. There has been a steep learning curve for providers and trainees alike, but increasing use of platforms...
This is a reminder that the University of Manchester ITE Social Responsibility Awards are still open for nominations - but the closing date for nominations is approaching - 5th June 2020. Do you know an NQT, or perhaps it's you, who could be nominated? These awards...
My name is Georgia Grant and I currently work as the lead support of medical needs (Physical and Sensory SEN Pathway) at Manchester Academy School. I completed Secondary Science (Biology) PGCE at The University of Manchester in 2019, following Human Biology...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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