PGCE Tutoring

Bristol, UWE

This online course for professional tutors is a landmark development in UK PGCE and tutoring provision. Global demand for tutoring is growing rapidly as families and schools seek more personalised educational support. While classroom teachers have long had recognised qualifications like the PGCE, professional tutors have had no equivalent way to demonstrate their expertise. The PGCE Tutoring changes that. This landmark PGCE is designed specifically for professional tutors, combining the academic rigour of a PGCE with subject expertise and advanced tutor training.

This PGCE develops your ability to adapt teaching to the individual, respond in real time, and support learner progress, while building your expertise in inclusive practice, safeguarding, and professional standards. Shaped by advisory input from Tutors International and grounded in real-world tutoring practice, the course reflects the expectations of professional tutoring at the highest level.

UWE Bristol has extensive expertise in teacher education and professional development in England and internationally. Our PGCE Tutoring is delivered fully online, allowing you to study flexibly from anywhere in the world.

The course follows our Professional Tutor Standards Framework, setting clear expectations for high-quality one-to-one and small-group tutoring practice. This includes student-centred teaching, evidence-informed pedagogy, professional responsibility, and structured subject audit and reflection activities designed to strengthen both pedagogical skill and subject expertise.

You'll be taught by experienced educators and join a community of tutors, encouraging collaboration, shared learning, and ongoing professional development.