Students who are currently busy with the old BEd degree qualifications (pipeline students) have until 2025 to complete these qualifications. The old BEd degrees (02593, 02607 and 02615) are still accredited and will still be recognised for employment purposes.
Students who are currently busy with the old PGCE qualifications have until 2022 to complete the PGCE and/or to meet any outstanding requirements, such as modules registered for Non-Degree Purposes (NDP).
No, students will be given the choice as to whether they wish to remain on the old BEd programme or whether they wish to transfer to the new BEd programme. Personalised communication will be sent to each student registered under the old BEd programme to assist them in making an informed choice.
No, students will not forfeit (lose) any credits obtained if they remain on and complete the old BEd degree programme.
We advise students to consider transferring to the new BEd programme if they have accumulated less than 20 modules (240 credits) towards the old BEd programme. Any student who has obtained more than 20 modules (240 credits) is advised to rather complete the old BEd programme, but with the new Educational Themes and Professional Studies modules. The College of Education has set up a module equivalence table to allow you to make it easy for you to select the correct modules if you transfer to the new BEd.
In an effort to expose as many students as possible to the new Education content, all students will be taking the new Educational Themes and Professional Studies modules from 2020. These modules were recently written and are very relevant to the school system.
Any final-year students who could have completed their qualifications in June/July 2020, but now have to register for the new Educational Themes and Professional Studies year modules, will be granted a special Portfolio which they will need to submit in May. This will enable them to still complete the module/s in June/July 2020. This special arrangement is only for students identified as being able to complete in 2020.
All other students are advised to register for the new Education Themes and Professional Studies modules at the beginning of the year, as these modules are now year modules and can't be added in the June/July registration period. (As in the past, students can register for a maximum of 10 modules, 120 credits per year.)
Unfortunately, the College of Education can only accommodate students for special arrangements for modules developed and offered within the College of Education, that is, the Educational Themes and Professional Studies modules. However, students are advised to register for all year modules in January/February regardless of which college is teaching them, as these cannot be added in the June/July registration period.
The old practical teaching modules for the Senior and FET phase were 24-credit modules. The new practical teaching modules are 12-credit modules. This means that the two practical teaching modules were divided into four more appropriately formatted modules to enable students to become well-rounded teachers. The four new modules will not have any additional cost implications over that of the two old modules. Students will also be granted the opportunity to register for two of the new teaching practical modules in one year to ensure that no extra time is added to the completion period of their qualification.
Yes, should a pre-requisite module and the follow-on module be outstanding to complete a qualification, final-year students will be granted admission to both to enable them to complete their qualifications.
No, both the old and new BEd degrees are on NQF Level 7 and both are recognised for employment as a teacher
Publish date: 2020-01-13 00:00:00.0