Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1 year full-time
This one-year full-time course offers instrumentalists and vocalists a range of distinctive features. If you want to learn how to teach music in a secondary school context and how to teach your own instrument and related family instruments or voice in a variety of different settings through innovative methodologies, then this is the course for you.
We are looking for outstanding musicians from all disciplines – including popular music, jazz and folk – who show a real passion for music education in all its guises and who strive to develop outstanding musicianship in their teaching practice.
The RNCM runs this unique Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) course in collaboration with Manchester Metropolitan University (Man Met). The PGCE is delivered at both the RNCM and Man Met, and during the year, trainees complete two teaching placements at secondary schools and Music Services in the North West.
You will normally have a minimum of a 2:2 undergraduate honours degree awarded by a UK university, or an equivalent higher education qualification or you must possess and show the necessary skills as a musician and an educator. Music is a unique subject and we have several high quality trainees who have had degrees in non-music subjects, but through professional work have shown the necessary skills to enter the course. For exceptional candidates, particularly those with substantial relevant work experience in schools or relevant occupations, we will consider applications from those who hold a 3rd class degree.
UK and EU students: Full-time fee: £9,250 per year. Non-EU international and Channel Island students: Full-time fee: £17,000 per year.
Most of our graduates go on to work as music teachers in secondary schools.
Successful completion of this course provides 60 master’s level credits when you graduate. You could put these towards a masters degree to help you develop your career in the field of education.
Man Met staff and subject mentors provide full training on how to teach music within Key Stages 3 – 4 (ages 11 – 16) with extension to post-16 A level work. You will study the National Curriculum in depth and explore issues such as how children acquire musical knowledge and understanding; classroom organisation; teaching mixed ability groups; equality of opportunity in schools and communication skills.
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