Leicester uni primary PGCE - what is it like?

When at university, the hours are typically 9am - 4pm with earlier starts and later finishes when required. You cannot request specific schools for placements, but they try to give you schools to which you can get easily. There are no guarantees that this will happen, though, and people with cars can sometimes get schools that can take up to an hour to reach, but that's the worse case scenario.

I enjoyed the course (I completed it last year) but, like other teacher training courses, it's hard work and the hours can very be long and tiring - much like teaching itself, really! I don't have any regrets with training at Leicester or going into teaching in general.

The School Direct route (and Leicester is partnered with lots of primary schools to deliver this route) or a SCITT course would give you greater control over the schools in which you are placed.

hi,

im interested in a SD route with UoL. Alevels are poor at BEE, do I have any chance? I noticed on providers sites, good to very good A levels are needed.