PgCert Overview

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The Postgraduate Certificate Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication (PgCert) is a key qualification for those who teach or support learning in arts higher education. It’s aimed at a wide range of graduate staff with academic or academic-related roles and is open to both UAL and external applicants.

The course takes a comprehensive view of academic practice by offering opportunities for you to develop as a researcher and an academic leader as well as a higher education teacher. The course also encourages you to explore your academic practice through a disciplinary lens, which means you will be given options to learn through practice-based as well as written and verbal means.

What are the benefits of the PgCert Academic Practice?

• Develop as a teacher in higher education.

• Learn in a specialist arts university context.

• Benefit from flexible and blended modes of learning.

• Engage critically with policy, practice, research and scholarship linked to aspects of academic practice that matter to you.

• Learn alongside like-minded professionals.

• Progress onto the MA Academic Practice, building on the units you’ve already completed on the PgCert.

Completing the PgCert will also enable you to attain professional recognition with the Higher Education Academy (HEA) as either Associate Fellow or Fellow, depending on the amount and type of teaching and learning support associated with your role.