Professional Graduate Diploma in Education

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The Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) is a one-year course in Scotland for undergraduate degree holders that allows them to train to be a teacher.

Technically, the PGDE is a non-degree qualification (as it is directly related to a career, it is considered vocational) that does not grant any postnominals, though this is often ignored.

[edit] Renaming

The course was previously known as the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) (the name it still retains in the rest of the United Kingdom). The course content is identical to the old PGCE.

A recent review of the equivalence of qualifications in the UK declared the PGCE to be equivalent to a graduate diploma This meant that under the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework the PGCE had an inappropriate name. As a result, the PGCE in Scotland was renamed to Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE).