Postgraduate Certificate in Education: FET at Cape Peninsula University of Technology

Programme overview

The Postgraduate Certificate in Further Education and Training Teaching programme is to provide initial preparation for teachers. It aims to build focused knowledge, skills and values required for teachers’ professional practice, and to lay the basis for continuing professional development through lifelong learning. This qualification also aims to improve current teaching, learning and assessment practices through the personal and professional development of prospective teachers. Offering type listed: Mowbray - Fulltime; MOWBRAY - PART-TIME.

Faculty: Faculty of Education | Department: Teacher Professional Development | Study mode: full-time | Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

What you will study

Subjects listed on the programme page include Education Studies; Educational Leadership and Management; ICT Skills; Lang of Conversational Comp (locc) (xhosa); Language of Learning and Teaching (lolt); Professional Studies.

Career pathways

Articulation with other qualifications and programmes Qualified students will meet the minimum requirements for SACE registration for employment in public and private schools. Qualified students will also be able to further their studies in the following ways: Horizontal articulation: Completion of the PGCE (FET Teaching) meets the minimum entry requirements to a 120 credits NQF level 7 Advanced Diploma in Education. Vertical articulation: Successful completion of the PGCE (FET Teaching) will allow access into a cognate 120 credits, NQF Level 8 B Ed Honours degree, or a cognate 120 credits Level 8, Postgraduate Diploma in Education Programme.

Official programme page

Application information

Entry requirements

Qualifications required for admission Prerequisite: An appropriate 360 or 480 credit Bachelor’s degree or equivalent National Diploma with one school subject at third year university level (FET). REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PGCE (FET teaching) 1. At least one teaching specialisation (FET subject). The knowledge mix in the prior qualification must support the teaching of at least one FET teaching subject. Where two FET specialisations are studied, the underpinning disciplinary knowledge, or component thereof in the prior qualification, must be studied as a major subject in the entry qualification 2. Where one teaching specialisation is taken, the 7 credits still available from the specialist pedagogical learning component must be used for Curriculum studies: Research in the specialisation. 3. Students’ language and computer proficiency will be tested before entry to the qualification, however, additional support will be provided to improve this proficiency during the period of study. Mode of delivery of the programme Full-time or part-time, face-to-face delivery which includes school-based Teaching Practice will be offered over one year for full-time and in the second year of part-time studies on the Mowbray campus. The offering type will depend on viable student numbers.

Tuition is charged per module, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Postgraduate diploma applications for 2027 close on 30 September 2026 for both national and international applicants; applications open on Monday, 11 May 2026.

The application fee is R110 (non-refundable); the late application fee is R160. A deposit of R1,750 is payable on acceptance and a registration fee of R785 applies.

Apply through the official page: https://www.cput.ac.za/study-at-cput/postgraduate/apply

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