Teaching Education
Do you want to make a difference, inspire minds and ignite curiosity, passion and belief?
Teaching is a rewarding and challenging career, offering lots of variety and opportunities to build meaningful relationships with students and bring knowledge to life through creativity.
Teachers are in high demand, particularly in secondary schools, making our courses the perfect choice for people with life and employment experience looking to change careers.
With strong partnerships across rural and urban schools in the region, our trainee teachers spend two-thirds of their postgraduate year on placement, putting into practice what they learn on the course.
All our lecturers have previous experience as teachers and are involved in leading and innovating the latest developments in teacher education.
Courses
- Moral and Philosophical Studies with Religious Education BA (Hons) | SCQF Level 7-10 - Full-time
- Teaching Qualification Further Education CPD Award | SCQF Level 9 - Open Learning Part-time
- Education (Primary) PGDE | SCQF Level 10 - Full-time
- Education (Primary) PDGE | SCQF Level 10 - Part-time
- Education Gaelic Medium (Primary) | Level 10 - Full-time
- Education (Secondary) PGDE | SCQF Level 10 - Full-time
- Education (Secondary) PDGE | SCQF Level 10 - Part-time
- Education Gaelic Medium (Secondary) | Level 10 - Full-time
- Teaching Qualification Further Education PG Cert | SCQF Level 11 - Part-time
Please contact our PGDE admissions team if you require any assistance with the application process or would like to ask any questions that aren’t contained in the FAQs.
Graduate story: 'My school students inspire me to put theory into practice every day'
Jo Greenwood, BA (Hons) Moral and Philosophical Studies with Religious Education
Jo (50) from Cullen in Moray decided to follow her dream to be a Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies (RMPS) secondary school teacher after years clocking up long hours and travel miles as a management consultant and programme director. She studies online from home and believes there is no better option than this course, because it combines education with the RMPS subject matter and means she won’t have to spend an extra year studying a Professional Graduate Diploma in Education. Jo likes that the modules offer a good breadth and depth of religion, worldviews, and different branches of philosophy and appreciates the support she has received from the library team.
“UHI Inverness offered the ideal course for me, combining religion and philosophy with the ability to train as a teacher at the same time,” said Jo Greenwood, a first-year BA (Hons) Moral and Philosophical Studies with Religious Education student.
I have always wanted to teach. This course combined my passion – religion and philosophy – with the ability to receive teacher training, placements and General Teaching Council for Scotland registration.
So far, I have thoroughly enjoyed all the course material. I also love that even though it’s my first year, we are already straight into the educational practice side of the course, learning different pedagogies, lesson planning etc. What is particularly good for me is that I can attend all my lectures online, giving me the flexibility to manage family life and I also work part-time to make ends meet. If I had to travel to the college regularly, I wouldn’t have been able to do the course. I like that all the course material is well-structured online, with everything I need on a week-by-week basis. All lecturers have given us plenty of time to prepare for assessments.
As a predominantly distance learner, the library team has been consistently brilliant in delivering what I need to my door. Everything feels well-organised, and the university seems to genuinely care about student well-being.”