Post-graduate Certificate in Higher Education Practice (PgCHEP)

Academic Year 2022-23

Course Director

• Dr Amanda Platt

Course Administrator

• Elaine Fairweather

Application Form

• PgCHEP Online Application Form

We recommend that you attend the Orientation to Learning and Teaching at Ulster session prior to commencing the PgCHEP.

Please note this programme is only available to Ulster staff with a substantive learning and teaching support role that involves  sustained, direct engagement with learners e.g. teaching or providing learning support to Ulster University students in Higher Education for an average of 2 hours per week over the duration of each PgCHEP module.

Details about the course schedule and modules are provided below.

If your role is more limited you may wish to apply separately for either First Steps to Teaching OR undertake Module 1 of the PgCHEP (PHE 705 Learning and Teaching in Higher Education) as a stand-alone course (see below for separate application form)

Staff on fixed-term contracts

Alternatively, staff with a contract of employment that extends until at least May 2023 can apply for the first module of the PgCHEP (PHE705) as a standalone.

Please contact the Course Director by emailing pgchep@ulster.ac.uk if you need further advice.

Any staff member seeking exemption from the PgCHEP will be expected to align their practice to the UKPSF at Descriptor 2 (i.e. FHEA), and to provide evidence of having achieved this.This would normally only apply to staff with more than three years substantive teaching experience in higher education settings.

Details of this process can be found in the Supplementary Information section below.

If you wish to discuss this further please contact pgchep@ulster.ac.uk

• Successful completion of PHE 705 leads to Associate Fellowship HEA
• Successful completion of the PgCHEP leads to Fellow HEA

Supplementary Information

• Role of subject advisor
• APL Process for PHE 705
• Useful Information: A Guide for Line Managers and Staff on Professional Development Opportunities 2020-21
• PgCHEP exemption

PgCHEP Course Structure