The Postgraduate Diploma in Education provides professional training for teachers who hold university degrees and who are teaching at the secondary level. The programme offered here is viewed as initial training, which sensitizes and orients teachers to the fundamentals of their profession. The primary concern is with developing a professional approach characterized by creativity, imagination, and the pursuit of professional and personal development.
The programme attempts to ensure that classroom practice is informed by a solid theoretical base in the foundation disciplines, curriculum theory, and methodology. In addition, it is expected that teachers in this programme will avail themselves of the opportunity to improve their control of the specific content relevant to teaching in their subject area. Ultimately, however, it is the continued use of sound practice and the sustained search for professional excellence, beyond the end of the programme that will ensure the high professional status of the teacher.