PGCHE

Aims and Learning Outcomes

The aims of the programme are to:
  • assist participants to become effective professional HE teachers informed by scholarship, research and innovation;
  • provide a sound knowledge and systematic understanding of the principal institutions, constituents, and procedures of a Higher Education Institution;
  • introduce participants to a range of different theoretical approaches to the study of education and develop a critical awareness of education in its historical, socio-economic and political contexts;
  • assist participants to become effective research workers, supervisors of research students and staff, and managers of projects;
  • enable participants to study some selected aspects of higher education in greater depth.