Develop your career as a socially and ethically engaged, globally connected professional who is creative, enterprising, resilient, and innovative
The Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Practice (PGCert HEP) is designed for graduates who are professionally engaged in higher education and wish to reflect on and enhance their teaching and/or student learning support practices. Aligned with Birmingham Newman University’s mission and strategic values, this Level 7 (FHEQ) programme fosters evidence-based, inclusive, and reflective approaches to higher education practice.
Programme Highlights
- Values-Driven Practice: Promotes respectful dialogue and formative learning in line with Newman’s ethos.
- Student-Centred Focus: Develops academic/professional practices to support diverse student success.
- Policy & Contextual Engagement: Explores wider HE policies, strategies, and quality frameworks.
- Pedagogical Excellence: Covers key theories in curriculum design, assessment, and HE teaching methodologies.
- Reflective Development: Encourages continuous improvement through reflective and reflexive practice.
- Professional Networking: Connects participants with cross-disciplinary HE practitioners and academics.
- Research-Informed Practice: Critically engages with HE scholarship to inform evidence-based teaching.
What does the course cover?
- Gain a thorough grounding in current best practice and theory, enriched by real-world problem-solving
- Benefit from access to a valuable network of industry links and opportunities for further accreditation
- Choose a broad programme of study, or specialise in accounting, entrepreneurship, international business or marketing.
Who Should Apply?
This programme is ideal for HE lecturers, tutors, and learning support professionals seeking to advance their practice, engage with contemporary pedagogies, and contribute to an inclusive learning environment.
(Note: All assessments align with Master’s-level FHEQ descriptors.)
Course Modules
Level 7
This course includes or offers the following modules. Contact us for more information on which modules are core, required or optional.
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HEM711: HE Practice [10 credit]
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HEM712: Programme Design in HE [20 credit]
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HEM713: Academic Practice Development [30 credit]
How you are assessed
You’re assessed in a variety of methods that may include some or all of the following across the various modules on the course:
- Reports on work-based assignments
- Research project reports
- Portfolios
- Reflective Learning and work experience journals
- Reviews
- Proposal papers for projects, funding or events, business plans, or strategy documents
- Project progress reports
- Project evaluations
- Presentations
- Essays
- Exams
Birmingham Newman University
Ensuring the degrees offered are relevant to the modern world is also a key feature at Birmingham Newman University. An important part of the curriculum is developing transferable skills useful for further study or employment after graduation. Many of the courses at Newman are developed in consultation with employers to ensure the course content is relevant and provides transferable skills valued by graduate employers.
Entry requirements
Get in touch
Please contact our Admissions Team for more information
Fees and Funding
FSB’s programmes are delivered under franchise agreements with partner universities who are registered Approved Providers with the OfS.
Therefore our students are eligible to apply for student finance from the Student Loans Company to cover the cost of their tuition fees, as well as maintenance grants to help with the cost of living.
Please get in touch with our Admissions Team for more information.
