Certificate · Certificate
PGCE (Secondary) Music with Specialist Instrument Teaching (with QTS)
Royal Northern College of Music · Royal Northern College of Music · Manchester, England, United Kingdom
- Official award
- PGCE (Secondary) Music with Specialist Instrument Teaching (with QTS)
- Subject
- Music Education
- Format
- On campus1 year full-time
- Tuition
- Not published
About this program
A one-year full-time course for instrumentalists and vocalists learning to teach music in secondary schools and to teach their own instrument or voice.
- Department
- Royal Northern College of Music
- Awarding body
- Not stated on the pages we checked
Award and subject
The award is shown exactly as the institution titles it. A program belongs to a subject only through the link below: a dedicated degree, a named major, a formal concentration or a documented pathway.
- Official award
- PGCE (Secondary) Music with Specialist Instrument Teaching (with QTS)
- Award family
- CertificateA certificate-level program. Its standing depends on who issues it: see the qualification kind on each listing.
- Qualification level
- Certificate
- Qualification standing
- Academic qualificationA degree, or a certificate or diploma awarded by a degree-awarding institution within a national qualifications framework.
- Orientation
- Orientation not published
- Previous degree required
- Not published
| Subject | Relationship | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Music Education | Dedicated degreeThe official program title is in this subject. |
Professional pathway
Academic study and professional licensure or clinical registration are different things. This is recorded exactly as the program states it.
- Type
- Teacher licensure or qualification route
- What the page says
- The course title states that the PGCE leads to or includes QTS (qualified teacher status); the page describes learning to teach music in a secondary school context and to teach one's own instrument or voice.Source
- Jurisdiction
- United Kingdom (not otherwise stated on the page)
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Accreditation, validation and recognition
Recorded for this program and campus, with the authority’s role. Institutional accreditation, degree-awarding authority, program accreditation, professional validation and national qualification registers are different things.
No program-level accreditation or validation record has been verified yet. That does not mean none exists; check the national authority and the institution.
Study structure
- Delivery
- On campusTaught at the listed campus.
- Study mode
- Full-time
- Duration
- 1 year full-time
- Intakes
- Not published
- Campus
- Royal Northern College of Music124 Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9RD
Teaching language
- Taught in
- English
- English
- English teaching not verifiedAn English-language website does not mean a program is taught in English.
Admissions
- Audition
- Audition requirement not published
- Portfolio
- Portfolio requirement not published
- Interview
- Not published
Fees and costs
Original currency is authoritative. Each price keeps its basis (per year, per credit, whole program), academic year and student category, and is never converted. Annual tuition and whole-program tuition are different figures.
The institution does not publish tuition for this program on the pages we checked. Ask for current fees, what they include and whether lessons, accompanists, practice rooms, instrument hire, software, recording, recitals, travel and residency costs are extra.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: tuition, intakes, audition requirement, whether a previous degree is required, accreditation or validation record.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 25 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 25 October 2026)