The Moray House School of Education
Postgraduate Study

Realise your ambitions and become a secondary teacher. We offer Top-Up courses in maths for prospective PGDE Secondary applicants.

There has never been a better time to be a teacher and our new top-up courses will provide you with an interesting and enjoyable opportunity to help you secure the right qualifications to meet PGDE secondary teacher education entry requirements.

The Moray House School of Education in conjunction with The School of Mathematics offer a number of bespoke maths courses to help applicants who are short of subject credits meet teacher education entry requirements.

Further details about each of the top-up courses

The courses will not only provide you with additional subject knowledge, we will also help provide you with the important information required to help make your application to a teacher education programme easy and effective.

Realise your ambitions and become a secondary teacher. We offer Top-Up courses in maths.

Our part-time (evening class/distance learning) top-up courses are available now and are a tremendous new opportunity for you to top up existing subject credits within your degree and help you achieve the minimum entry qualifications necessary to apply to do a PGDE Secondary Mathematics programme.

We expect applicants will come from a variety of backgrounds but you will share a common ambition and drive to actively pursue a teaching career or enhance your own subject knowledge and professional development.

You may be looking for a career change into teaching and think now is the time to start planning to achieve this goal.

You may have recently completed your university degree and have decided that you would now like to pursue a secondary teaching career.

For example, you may recently have qualified with an Engineering related degree that already contains 40 credits of Mathematics. To meet the minimum PGDE Secondary Maths entry requirement you would need to top-up these credits to 80, therefore you would undertake 4 maths, 10 credit top-up courses.

Don't worry if you are unsure about the credits you currently have, as our admissions staff will be happy to help and advise you.

The Top-up Courses

Course Delivery: Please click on the course names above for details about each course and assessment timetables.

Admission

Admission Requirements
All applicants must have a degree or equivalent qualification from an accredited higher education institution. The degree must contain at least 40 credits at SCQF level 7 or above in the relevant subject.
All applicants must also possess a pass at C or above in SQA Higher English or an accepted alternative.

Support and making an application
We appreciate you may need assistance to identify what credits you have and our Admissions Office staff are happy to help potential candidates clarify their current qualifications and further details about a potential career in teaching. Please contact our Admissions Office for further information or to request an application form email: HSSUG@ed.ac.uk or telephone 0131 650 3565.

Course Fees
These courses were previously fully funded by SEED if students fulfilled the following terms and conditions.

• Students should meet all admission requirements and have no more than 80 credits in the top up subject
• Students should successfully complete the top-up course
• Students should submit an application to the GTTR for 2008 entry to a PGDE Secondary Maths course in a Scottish teacher education institution.

If students did not fulfil the above criteria then the standard fees for part time study would apply. Please see www.registry.ed.ac.uk/fees or contact the Admissions Office for up-to-date information regarding the current funding situation.

Applying for a PGDE Teacher Education programme
Once you have planned your top-up courses and have ensured you will meet the minimum entry requirements, you may wish to apply to do the PGDE Secondary programme at the University of Edinburgh. Please click here to find out further information about applying for the PGDE Secondary programme.