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Entry Requirements

You must have:

An SCE higher grade award in English (band C or above) or a National Course award at higher level at C or above in English and Communication; and
A degree validated by a higher education institution in the United Kingdom or a degree of an equivalent standard from outside the United Kingdom which contains passes in at least three Teaching Subject Qualifying Courses (TSQCs) in the subject(s) you want to teach. One TSQC must be at Scottish Higher Education level, sometimes known as Scottish Degree, level two or above and one at level three or above.

The content of your degree must be relevant to the subject you want to teach.

TSQCs is the term given to the parts of your degree which are related to the subject as it is taught in Scottish secondary schools and which qualify you to enter a PGCE course. As a general rule, a TSQC will represent approximately one third of the total study in one academic year (at least 40 undergraduate credit points for the SCOTCAT Framework for higher education).

Gaelic

You must have a degree with passes in three TSQCs in Gaelic or in Celtic Studies (but specialising in Scottish Gaelic). You will have to prove to the teacher education institution that you are fluent in spoken Gaelic and proficient in Gaelic literacy.

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For further information on issues which are Gaelic specific, contact:

Christina Walker
Gaelic Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Aberdeen University,
Hilton Campus, ABERDEEN, AB24 4FA

Tel: 01224 284649
Fax: 01224 284651

christina.walker@abdn.ac.uk