Bachelor of Education in Intermediate Phase Teaching
NQF Level: 7
510 credits
Duration of study: four years (augmented programme: six years)
The qualification will enable graduates to enter the teaching profession as Intermediate Phase (Grade
4-7) teachers in South African public and private schools. Two Oceans graduates will be generalist
trained in the early years of study and introduced to the CAPS document for all the primary school
subjects. With progress, they will be in a position to teach a Home Language (English, Afrikaans or
isiXhosa), English First Additional Language, Mathematics and two other subjects chosen from
Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Technology, Life Skills and Social Sciences.

Postgraduate Certificate in Education in Senior Phase and Further
Education and Training Teaching
Course overview
The Postgraduate Certificate in Education in Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching
(PGCE (Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching) enables graduates to enter the
teaching profession as Senior Phase (Grade 7-9) and Further Education and Training (Grade 10-12)
teachers in South African public and private schools. The PGCE (Senior Phase and Further Education
and Training Teaching) is a NQF exit level 7 qualification consisting of 130 compulsory credits. The
purpose and outcomes of the programme provide for bachelor degree and diploma holders a solid
knowledge of education and its foundations as well as the competence to teach at least one Senior
Phase and one Further Education and Training subject specialization with confidence.
Programme options
Full time
The curriculum design of the PGCE (Senior Phase and Further Education and Training Teaching)
provides for a full time study of one academic year spread over two semesters (clusters). Prospective
PGCE students may enrol for the programme in January or in July of each year. Students will register
in the first cluster for compulsory modules focusing on the foundations of education as well as ICT for
teaching in the senior and further education and training phases (information communication
technology; digital educational and instructional technologies). Along with this, students will also
register for their teaching specialisation subjects (a combination of Senior Phase and Further
Education and Training subjects), and one 5-week Teaching Practice module. Students who want to
enhance their basic ICT or communication skills should register for specific elective modules included
in the curriculum. Students register in the second cluster for the continuation of their teaching
specialisation subjects, as well as a second 5-week Teaching Practice module. They will also continue
with their compulsory foundations of education modules.
Part time
Prospective students may also enrol for the 24 months’ part time option spread over 4 clusters,
providing that students first complete educational and foundational subjects successfully before
registering for teaching subject specialisations and school based teaching practice.