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Students enrolled in the PGCE Primary programme receive qualifications from Liverpool Hope University and have access to:

  • 听A personal coach for support听
  • NASBTT Education Support Service (wellbeing)听
  • Online library services听
  • Career support听
  • Fee payment arrangements听
  • Policies and procedures听

The AMPSCITT team and teaching staff provide training, guidance, and support as students apply for their first teaching positions. These services complement the support provided by the college.听


The Associated Merseyside Partnership SCITT (AMP SCITT) is a key collaborative partner and a leader in school-led teacher training. Their primary teacher training route offers trainees experience in a variety of partner primary schools.听听
Briony Thompson, SCITT PGCE Programme Lead鈥痑t Liverpool Hope University comments.. 听

鈥淚 am absolutely delighted to welcome you to the start of your postgraduate journey studying with鈥疞iverpool鈥疕ope鈥疷niversity鈥痠n鈥痗lose partnership with AMP SCITT Alliance. The SCITT PGCE course has a rigorous selection procedure, so having successfully secured your place, we have the highest expectations of you as a trainee teacher. We look forward to working with you as you begin this new and exciting phase of your life as an aspirational and ambitious鈥疕ope鈥痶eaching professional.听

The鈥疕ope鈥疶eacher鈥痵ees their career as a vocation, a way of changing the lives of children and the chance to make a real difference. They demonstrate the鈥痜our key learning dispositions of resourcefulness, resilience, reflectiveness, and reciprocation鈥痑s they strive for excellence in teaching and learning for all. The SCITT and university partnership and鈥痗urriculums work symbiotically鈥痑nd are designed to enhance one another. Tutors have devised the programme carefully and collaboratively. LHU tutors are experts in the field of learning and teaching and skilfully draw on their experience and expertise to support you in understanding research theory into practice.听

For the last four years we have taught the course through a successful鈥痓lended model鈥痮f online synchronous study using Zoom, the university鈥檚 online platform `(Moodle) and face to face delivery at鈥烀来 College.鈥澨