Apply now for the PgCert in Higher Education!

08 May 2026

Exciting free development opportunity available to both academic and PS colleagues

Applications are now open for the PgCert in Higher Education programme 2026/27 entry.

This programme is free to University of Manchester colleagues, and can play an important role in enhancing your professional development. It aims to enable you to think more critically about your contribution to our university, as well as to develop a better understanding of the sector-wide changes in the Higher Education landscape. Co-ordination is via the Manchester Institute of Education (MIE), and delivery is by colleagues in MIE and from the wider University community.

Applications are welcome from both academic and PS colleagues, with over 460 colleagues already graduated from the programme since it started.

Course content includes:

• thinking critically about policy (and the ideologies that underpin it) at a time in which the sector moves towards unprecedented levels of institutional competition and comparison;
• looking at open practice, education and access, connecting open practices from across the University. Participants contribute to an open educational resource via an open publication;
• exploring a range of assessment and feedback techniques to suit a faculty’s evolving courses.

Further information

• Full details and an online application form are available at PG Cert in HE
• Arrange a conversation with a member of the programme team to ask any questions.
• Applications close on Tuesday 30 June 2026.