Applicants for the University of Manchester PGCE (Core or School Direct) are warmly invited to look around this blog, read our alumni stories, visit our information pages for more details and information on how to apply.

See also these related academic and partner blogs: subject-focused and thematic links to explore:

Narinder Mann’s blog (Geography PGCE Subject Leader)

Tom Donnai’s blog (History PGCE Subject Leader)

Hannah Strickland’s blog (English and Widening Participation Tutor)

We appreciate and depend on the contributions of so many people in this thriving PGCE partnership: trainees, alumni, mentors, professional mentors as well as our tutors, administrators and our school liaison team.

We were recognised as Outstanding in our most recent inspection (Ofsted 2018), for the way in which we draw together the collaborative strengths of over 200 schools and colleges in Greater Manchester and the North West, with the University of Manchester Institute of Education as a centre of educational thinking and practice.

Please sign up to this Partnership blog by putting your email in the ‘subscribe’ box. You will receive occasional emails inviting you to click to see updates such as invitations to CPD, news of relevant research and development work within the Partnership, invitations to be involved in projects on environmental sustainability and in relation to Black Lives Matter and decolonising the curriculum. And we warmly welcome your contributions to the blog – please email them to me at the address below.

Andy Howes, PGCE Secondary Director. (andrew.j.howes@manchester.ac.uk)