Teaching And Learning In Higher Education

PgCert Part-time

Course Overview

UCAS code:
Duration: 2 years
Study type: Part-Time
Napier code: 11252MC

As a teaching professional at university level, you'll appreciate that opportunities for personal and professional development can be rare. This course offers you the chance to gain an accredited qualification through up to two years' part-time, work-based study, concentrating on the key subjects relating to learning, teaching and assessment in Higher Education.

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As a teaching professional at university level, you'll appreciate that opportunities for personal and professional development can be rare. This course offers you the chance to gain an accredited qualification through up to two years' part-time, work-based study, concentrating on the key subjects relating to learning, teaching and assessment in Higher Education.

This course aims to develop familiarity with the principles of higher education curriculum design, planning and provision. You'll explore motivations for student learning and assessment methods, plus the links between research and teaching. Ultimately, you will produce a piece of extended professional analysis and critique that will demonstrate your development over the course.

Through this course, you'll gain a number of teaching-oriented skills that will enhance your day to day working life, as well as your career prospects. You'll develop the ability to critically evaluate rapidly changing contexts of higher education, as well as a student-centred approach to your role as an educational practitioner. Personal evaluation skills and the ability to effectively explore and debate relevant issues will also be nurtured.

What's it like?

Develop familiarity with the principles of higher education curriculum design, planning and provision.

Career prospects

We are one of the top universities in Scotland for graduate employability, with over 93% of our graduates in jobs or further study six months after graduating.

This qualification will consolidate your status within your own university or teaching institution. You may undertake the course as part of a probationary programme for new positions, or use it to increase your opportunities for transfer within the university system, upgrade your current standing, or pursue further educationally-focused studies.

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What's involved

Modular learning

Our courses are structured by modules which gives our students a flexible learning programme. Modules covered by this course:

On offer

Campus life

World class facilities


Developing our students, both professionally and personally, is at the heart of all learning at Edinburgh Napier and is embedded in our approach to Learning, Teaching and Assessment. We put the employability of our graduates at the core of everything we do and we are regarded as one of the Top 10 Universities in the UK for graduate employability.

We are proud to be investing £100m to provide some of the very best teaching and learning facilities and there are plans for a new student union in 2012/13.


Why I chose Edinburgh Napier

Requirements at a glance

Entry to the course

International students

Full-time study (per year)

The fees listed are stated per annum.

Part-time study (per year)

The fees listed are stated per annum.

Part-time study

The number of modules studied is dependant on the exit that you wish to achieve, for example:

  • A Grad Cert is 60 Credits (3 modules)
  • A Cert HE/Grad Dip/ HND is 120 credits (6 modules)
  • A Dip HE credit is 240 credits (12 modules)
  • A Degree is 360 credits (18 modules)
  • An Honours Degree is 480 credits

Please note that some part-time courses give modular exemptions for previous study and vocational experience. Advice is available during application.

Part-time study (per module)

  • A Postgraduate Certificate is 60 credits (3 modules)
  • A Postgraduate Diploma is 120 credits (6 modules)
  • MBA is 180 credits

Fees Table

Fees displayed are correct at the time of publication but the University Court reserves the right to make changes in fees at any time, and without notice, before or after the student's admission to the University.

Tuition fees are reviewed annually and will rise each year during your programme of study, at least in line with inflation.

Funding your study

We have lots of funding options available such as the postgraduate tuition fee loan for Scottish & EU students, specific scholarships for students from India and Africa, as well as bursaries & grants for those closer to home in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. Visit our funding pages to find out what you could be eligible for.

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