Congratulations on being offered and accepting a place. We hope that you enjoy your time with us in what we expect to be a challenging, stimulating, and rewarding year for you.
The Course Team
Welcome and Induction
Your Welcome Week is an essential introduction to your course and the wider University, helping you to feel confident and prepared for your studies right from the very start.
It is important to check your Course Welcome Week for all the activities you are required to attend as part of your course induction. If any of your welcome activities are in groups, your course team will contact you before you arrive to let you know which group you will be in.
In addition, check the Student Events Hub for a range of fun activities. including the Students’ Union Welcome Fair, to help you make friends and live your best CCCU student life.
Your teaching timetable
UniTimetables provides an overview of all teaching activities for a course. If your course is taught in groups, it will display information for all groups, not just the group you will be assigned to.
Your individual student timetable will show you what modules and groups you are expected to attend via MyTimetable. This will be available for when your teaching starts.
Learn more about timetabling for new students including user guides and videos.
Welcome
The CCCU PGCE Secondary course is designed to help you become an outstanding teacher. Its approach to learning and education involves you as an active participant responsible for monitoring your professional development.
Your selection to be part of our PGCE course clearly shows our belief in your qualities as a teacher. You will need dedication, enthusiasm and resilience to make the most of your PGCE, and we, as your tutors, are here to guide you in your progression to being an outstanding beginner teacher. On behalf of all my colleagues in the School of Teacher Education, we wish you a warm welcome to our PGCE course and look forward to meeting you in person in September.
Getting started
Our Welcome Pack outlines all pre-course preparation tasks. We expect you to complete these before you start the course. We will add to the list of activities as we approach the start date, so please check back regularly to see what your next task might be.
We will also use the Notice Board in the Welcome Pack to update you with course timetables, start dates, etc., as they become available.
Bursary/Scholarship
Students who are registered on an eligible Teacher Training Course may be offered a Department for Education training bursary. To allow the University to assess your eligibility for the bursary could we please ask you to fill in the bursary eligibility declaration prior to starting your course.
For more information on the bursaries available and the eligibility criteria please visit the Get Into Teaching website.
For queries, please contact education.bursaries@canterbury.ac.uk.
Your welcome and induction will be w/c 8th September and 15th September 2025 - we look forward to meeting you then.
Pre-course reading
All pre-course general and subject-specific readings can be found in the Welcome Pack
You can pre-order or purchase any of the books mentioned on this page through our University Bookshop offers a 10% discount on most print titles and some price-beating book bundles. They also price-match Amazon on core texts recommended in the module handbooks you will receive when you start in September.
International student success programme
International students: don't miss out! Make sure you register for our international student success programme which provides practical advice on preparing to live and study in the UK.
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