Program Overview

PGDE Secondary (Business Education)

Are you are a graduate in a related degree to accounting, economics or business management? Are you looking for an inspiring, challenging and socially empowering career?

Our new one-year PGDE Secondary (Business Education) course will prepare you to teach business education in Scottish secondary schools and beyond, providing you with an internationally recognised secondary teaching qualification.

If you are passionate about business education especially with a social justice, sustainability and health and wellbeing agenda, then there has never been a more important time to learn the necessary skills, knowledge and understanding to enable you to transform young lives as you learn how to evaluate the social, ethical, and global factors that affect local, national, and multinational organisations.

As a graduate of our unique course, you will help to prepare young people to face the challenges of 21st century citizenship in these fast-changing times.   

Why QMU?

• Guaranteed employment for one year following graduation: Scottish students are guaranteed paid employment for one year in a Scottish secondary school as a Business Studies teacher.
• Historic and current expertise: Study at a university with a 145-year history of teaching for social justice. Social justice underpins QMU’s world view, and our new education courses offer a fresh and vibrant approach to learning to teach in Scotland.
• Staff expertise: Our staff have subject and professional knowledge based on their expertise from teaching in schools and in initial teacher education in university settings. Collectively we have many years of experience in supporting students entering the teaching profession and strong links with  the Queen Margaret Business School, with its emphasis on the need for ethical, social and ecological responsibility in business.
• Range of learning experiences: As well as offering you the opportunity to learn how to teach Business Education in a classroom context you will also engage creatively with the role of outdoor learning in the school curriculum, gaining experience in our dedicated campus Outdoor Learning space.
• Make a difference: Learn to teach a subject with the power to shape young persons’ lives and society. As a graduate of this course. you will be an advocate of sustainable business practices, which help support social justice, sustainable lifestyles, and economic and social wellbeing. Our course will support you in fostering a global business mindset to enable you to teach and transform lives within our local school communities.
• Professional accreditation/registration: The course is accredited by the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS). As a graduate you will be eligible to register with the GTCS.

This new course builds on the success of our PGDE Secondary (Home Economics) and shares core modules with that course. You can read some student stories from that course on this page.

Studying for a PGDE (Business Education)

Interview with a Business Education Secondary Teacher