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Train as a teacher at London's No.1 University

Start your postgraduate journey at the university voted London's No. 1 at the Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2025. 

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Find your master's in education at Middlesex

Get into teaching with Middlesex’s Ofsted recognised programmes and outstanding 2024 feedback. Study at a leading London university with an extensive network of partner schools. Our PGCE routes lead to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), helping you build classroom expertise and advance your career in education.

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Build the subject knowledge and confidence you need to teach in a UK secondary school with our PGCE. Choose from nine specialist subjects, all leading to Qualified Teacher Status, and take the next step towards a rewarding teaching career.

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Accredited by the Teaching Regulation Agency, our one‑year programme builds your confidence to teach in primary schools. With strong school partnerships across North London, we prepare you to support children in multicultural communities

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Delivered in partnership with local schools, this employment‑based postgraduate programme gives you paid, classroom‑based experience while you train as a teacher.

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Professional development

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Taught by leading, widely published educational researchers, this programme equips you with in‑depth knowledge in leadership and management, social justice, creative learning and teaching, and Special Educational Needs.

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apartment Primary or Secondary Qualified Teacher Status - (Assessment only)

A fast‑track route to QTS for experienced graduates with teaching experience in two UK schools. Assessment is available for primary and for secondary subjects such as Biology, Chemistry, History, Drama and English

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Underpinned by the Early Career Framework, this programme is designed to support you in critically reflecting on your professional development as a teacher. It provides relevant academic enhancement with a clear route into further study.

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person Advanced Social Work Practice Education PGCert

Designed for practising social workers, this programme builds your professional capacity and prepares you to supervise and assess student social workers in line with the Practice Education Professional Standards.

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Courses in related disciplines

Build the skills you need to make a difference in schools and youth settings. Our Social Work courses support those wishing to work with children, families and communities.

  • Social Work MA: Approved by the profession’s regulatory body, Social Work England, this master's provides an accelerated route into social work for highly motivated graduates and career changers seeking new challenges and opportunities.
  • Advanced Social Work Practice MA:  Specifically designed for qualified social workers who want to enhance their professional skills and improve outcomes for service users.

PGCE secondary education pathways

Choose from nine specialist subjects, all leading to Qualified Teacher Status, and take the next step towards a rewarding teaching career.

Explore how Middlesex prepares you for a teaching career

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So I'm train Baker senior lecturer in initial teacher education and you're teaching you're having impact on a number of students lives you know when you're teaching teachers your impact is far wider that sense of sort of responsibility almost is is deeply felt comparative education was my favorite because it broadens your mind and you can actually see that not all children around the world have the same opportunities and how much actually politics and all that affects that so that was definitely my favorite the one thing that middle sex offers is opportunities to students who wouldn't get opportunities elsewhere I had a module called SC and where we had this massive rip session discussing scmd matters it was such a rich experience just debating about what the future holds in terms of SC and there are really well established partnership across the range of schools and working with schools to make sure that they've got really strong mentors you know that they're being really well supported on placements everything we do is designed to make sure that when you leave us in the summer you are so well prepared to go off to teach and on top of that we run careers days we have a lot of sort of partnership with the heads and school leaders coming in talking to students about your early career teaching role so they're really well prepared you know to to apply for the jobs then can go on and become amazing teachers

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Top 10 UK uni for industry connections and funding (THE Young Universities 2024)

We're partnered with over 500 schools in London that contribute to our courses, provide placements and frequently employ our graduates.

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Processional accreditation

Our teaching courses help you gain Qualified Teacher Status and are accredited by the Teaching Regulation Agency, Department for Education.

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Highly rated

Ranked No. 1 in London for social work and 2nd for graduate prospects in social work (The Complete University Guide 2026).

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Ofsted rating "Outstanding" in 2024

Rated Outstanding for Secondary and Good for Primary (Ofsted 2024), praised for “graduates fully ready for their careers.”

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Financial support

From postgraduate loans worth up to £12,858 to a range of scholarships and bursaries which you don't have to pay back.

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