Classics

Postgraduate Certificates in Higher Education (PGCHE) / Academic Practice (PGCAP) 

Postgraduate Certificates in Higher Education (PGCHE) or in Academic Practice (PGCAP) are now part of probation for newly appointed members of staff and those on longer short-term contracts. This is as a direct result of the professionalisation of HE teaching that is supported by the 2006 UK Professional Standards Framework (UK PSF) for teaching and supporting learning.

 

These qualifications are necessarily (due to the nature of their students!) generic, but are supplemented by Subject Centre Events. Many HEIs wil accept attendance at discipline-specific events as 'time spent' towards the portfolio and contribution to a Subject Centre Event is good evidence for your interest in supporting a community of professional practice when it comes to applying for Higher Education Academy accreditation.

 

Whether you are undertaking the PGCHE/PGCAP now, or planning to do so in the future, you will find a wide range of recommended resources throughout the HCA and HE Academy websites.  

 

In addition CSC can advise on discipline specific bibliography for use on such courses, both generic and discipline-specific.

 

If you are undertaking a PGCHE/PGCAP, or similar, CSC may be interested in publishing your coursework as a Case Study, Briefing Paper or SOTL (Scholarship of Learning and Teaching) as examples of Pedagogical Development or Pedagogical Research in Classics. Material can be sent for advice/preview and preliminary comment, prior to full peer review by a classicist and an educationalist, to classics.csc@durham.ac.uk.

 

Classicists will also find valuable material for the PGCHE/PGCAP in the CUCD Bulletin and Classical Journals which accept Pedagogical Development and Pedagogical Research (such as JACT and CAMWS).