Internationally Educated Students
As a student teacher who has been educated internationally, we are really keen to work together with you over the next academic year to draw on your experiences and insights in order to enhance the course and enrich the experiences of UK educated students, tutors, coordinators and mentors.
At the same time, we recognise that there will be many elements of the UK education system which will be unfamiliar to you and at times very different from the system that you have been used to. According to the experiences of our former internationally educated students, this can make the course very challenging.
In order for you to have the best opportunity to meet the Teachers' Standards by the end of the course and to feel more comfortable and familiar with your understanding of the UK education system when you embark on the course, you are strongly advised to organise a pre-course visit to a UK school for a week prior to the start of your course.
To help you to make the most of your time during your pre-course visit, and also to support you on the course, we have produced a booklet. You will be expected to have completed the section ‘preparing for the PGCE year’ before the start of the course.
Download booklet for internationally educated students (Word)