Anxiety issues pgce fail unfair

I reported the problems with bullying very early on but the university didn't do anything about it. They basically told me to just 'get on with it' and I did even though I came home crying almost every night

That is interesting as I was in a very similar situation and my University's responce was very different. At first they just wanted to get me through it ans arranged 'a supportive visit'. Which was actually very helpful.

After I left and I had my doctor's note for Cognitive Behavioural Anxiety I was told that a decison has been made that the University will try not to use that school again. If they feel they must (due to the numbers) they will be very careful as to who they put there next time.

I'm sorry to hear your sister has had such an awful experience. It sound like her experience is similar to mine. My first placement went well but I ended up with a very unsupportive and critical mentor on my second placement. I found it very difficult at my school but I thought I was passing but then, out of the blue, I was put on 'cause for concern'. I had already been very unwell at that point and I had issues with anxiety, particularly when my mentor observed me. I did eventually see a doctor but it was too late and I didn't get through my placement either. The university weren't supportive and basically said that it was all my fault. I know I've got a lot to learn but my mentor's behaviour bordered on bullying and I shouldn't have had to put up with it.

I think the best thing your sister can do is to contact the university and ask if she can do her placement again elsewhere. Did she pass all of her academic work? If so, she might be able to go for the QTS only route if she is able to find a job as an unqualified teacher.

My university eventually agreed that I can do my placement again. I don't know how things would have gone if I had been placed elsewhere but I think I should have been given a fair chance. The whole experience (the bullying and the treatment by the university) has put me of teaching though and I don't know if I'll complete my course.

I'm obviously not familiar with her situation but I had to learn that not all universities have their students best interests at heart. I was very ill because I was bullied on placement and they still tried to make me responsible for the situation. I had medical evidence too but they claimed that I just 'couldn't deal with the stress'. Teaching is a very stressful profession but some schools don't treat their trainees fairly and if you're in that kind of environment, it isn't really possible for you to find out whether or not teaching is right for you.

I reported the problems with bullying very early on but the university didn't do anything about it. They basically told me to just 'get on with it' and I did even though I came home crying almost every night because of the way I was treated at the school. I was in school five days a week and after the school had reacted very negatively when I asked for some time off for a job interview, I was too scared to take any more time off but I made a doctor's appointment during half term and provided both the school and the uni with evidence.

You aren't familiar with the situation so you have no way of knowing if the university made the right decision. My school didn't even provide the basic training they were supposed to provide and I was treated very disrespectfully by my mentor and another teacher.

I don't know enough about the health situation of the person you mentioned to say whether or not their work was unfair. If they went to the hospital they were most likely hoping to get medical help and evidence so it may not have been as simple as 'ignoring a policy' but I really don't know enough about it to make a judgement.

Thanks, I've been doing research on teaching again to remind me why I wanted to go into it. Point was I know me doing the pgce will bring stuff up for my sis. She has a good job but doesn't enjoy as much as teaching. So I find t hard to accept I'm gona go into a career that she told me all about. She is really good teacher like I said and I feel gutted if I made it and she didn't. she has moved on but just doesn't enjoy her career and I know she would love to be a teacher still but it feel like such injustice.

Your posts are yo-yoing from the problem being that you are worried about your sister and her situation to your sister and her situation causing you anxiety. I will reiterate what I said in my last post: you cannot let other people's mindset and experiences influence your own. You have no control over your sister's circumstances and can only ensure that there is a different outcome for yourself by going into this process with a positive mindset and being mentally prepared to take on the challenges ahead. You will not make it if you spend so much time worrying about things that are out of your control. What is stopping your sister from giving it another go elsewhere anyway?

They said she couldn't do a placement somewhere else and she should wait read behaviour management techniques and apply them. She had four weeks left of her final placement when they gave her CFC. They said she could apply for mitigation circumstance but my sis tried going docs who would not diagnose her even though she was clearly having sever stress. They never told my sis she could fail the pgce before the cause for concern meeting the didn't properly explain the seriousness and they gave her some criteria that she had to give evidence of having done. That criteria is unheard of by teaching students and unfair extra test for her to do at the CFC meeting.

Yea i still feel bad for her that such a good teachers dream of teaching was ended forever.we didn't know about independent adjudicator at the time and could t tell them. We tried contacting unions and they were useless. It shut injustice. I want to do something about it even now, or does she just have to accept she has no chance.

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