How do I become a secondary school teacher?

you don't need a PGCE to become a teacher, you just get a masters degree in something, train as a teacher in a real school, get your certificate, and teach.

you don't need a PGCE to become a teacher, you just get a masters degree in something, train as a teacher in a real school, get your certificate, and teach.

Can I become a secondary school teacher by doing any degree that i want (looking at medicine/biochemical sciences/pharmacology at the moment, because that's just what I want to do. I do want to go into drug development and testing, but being a teacher is my plan b.) then just taking a PGCE postgrad to teach in whatever I'm going to do for my a levels (bio, chem and geography)??

(sorry about the category btw, didn't know where to put it)

Yes you can do most degrees and become a teacher providing you go through the necessary training post degree level.

The one thing I would say is (considering you posted this in the medicine section), medicine is a vocational degree in which the majority of graduates go on to practice as a doctor. I honestly wouldn't reccomend applying for medicine (which is super competitive) if you dont want to become a doctor, if you want to go into research or teaching your better going for a more theoretical degree.

I do want to do pharmacology, but there aren't any good universities near me that I can get into and want to go to (number 1 on league tables is cambridge, which is waaaaaayyy out of my league) apart from Queen's and UCL. Not sure right now. Haven't had time to read up on differences between the courses and what is right for me. I think I'll wait until time is allocated for that at school and we can get help then too.

I do want to do pharmacology, but there aren't any good universities near me that I can get into and want to go to (number 1 on league tables is cambridge, which is waaaaaayyy out of my league) apart from Queen's and UCL. Not sure right now. Haven't had time to read up on differences between the courses and what is right for me. I think I'll wait until time is allocated for that at school and we can get help then too.