This program offers a teacher certificate (Post Graduate Certificate in Education, PGCE) in an academic period as short as two semesters. Our ideal candidates already have a graduate /master degree in the field of Teacher of Italian language and culture and a command of English enabling them to participate in our program.

Based on the high quality field specific (disciplinary) knowledge gained prior to our program we concentrate on the educational applicablity of the already gained competences. Both in theory and practice our goal is to arm our candidates with general pedagogical and psychological as much as field specific methodological attitudes, knowledge, and skills neccesarry in the reality of schools worldwide.

Throughout the first semester of our program offers theoretical emphasis whereas during the second semester teacher candidates may practice teaching activities in vivid bilingual secondary schools of our city and in related bachelor programs of our university.

Career opportunities:

Although the teaching profession is facing challenges worldwide it still is a widely known and flexible career path. Our graduates may start teaching at different scenarios of public and private education in the field of their expertise. 

Also, at the „Education and Society” Doctoral School of Education Sciences at the University of Pecs graduates may continue their studies in a PhD program focusing the subfields of Theories of Education and Subject Specific Methodologies; Philosophy and History of Education; or the Sociology of Education.