Applications open for PgCert in Higher Education

22 May 2026

SEED staff are encouraged to consider applying for the Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education

Applications are open for the PgCert in Higher Education programme 2026/27 entry and are welcome from SEED academic staff and PS colleagues. 

The programme is free to University of Manchester staff and can play an important role in enhancing your professional development. It aims to enable you think more critically about your contribution to the 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 around the University.

Over 460 of your colleagues have graduated from the programme since it started.

There is a choice of course units that include topics such as:

• 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

Full details and an online application form are available at PG Cert in HE

If you would like to arrange a conversation with a member of the Programme team, please email seed.programmes@manchester.ac.uk

Applications close 30 June 2026.