{"id":13596,"date":"2025-01-24T11:34:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T11:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/?page_id=13596"},"modified":"2025-01-24T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T11:35:00","slug":"postgraduate-diploma-in-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/postgraduate-diploma-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Postgraduate Diploma in Education"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"13596\" class=\"elementor elementor-13596\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-df6c722 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"df6c722\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5317822 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5317822\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.22.0 - 26-06-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>The Postgraduate Diploma in Education is designed for graduate teachers in government schools and other educational institutes to upgrade their knowledge and skills in education. It expects to provide graduate teachers with necessary knowledge, understanding and professional skills to be competent teachers in primary and secondary schools. On successful completion of the diploma, students will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of education theory and practice; apply them in teaching and learning processes; acquire a range of generic skills for education; develop a set of classroom teaching related skills and professional practices; and inculcate positive expectations, attitudes and ethics required in a professional teacher.\u00a0<\/p><p>This programme offers two options:<\/p><p><strong>Option 1<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Offered on full-time basis to graduate teachers in government schools with at least one year of work experience nominated by the Ministry of Education (MoE).<\/p><p><strong>Option 2 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Offered on part-time basis to anyone who satisfies the eligibility criteria through open advertisement, especially graduate teachers in government schools and other educational institutes with at least one year of work experience.<\/p><p>Credit requirement to complete the diploma:<\/p><table><tbody><tr><td width=\"462\"><p><strong>\u00a0 Component <\/strong><\/p><\/td><td width=\"150\"><p><strong>\u00a0Credits <\/strong><\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"462\"><p>\u00a0 Compulsory Courses<\/p><\/td><td width=\"150\"><p>\u00a0 24<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"462\"><p>\u00a0 Optional (Elective) Courses<\/p><\/td><td width=\"150\"><p>\u00a0 02<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"462\"><p>\u00a0 Compulsory Courses on Non-credit basis<\/p><\/td><td width=\"150\"><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"462\"><p>\u00a0 Teaching Practice<\/p><\/td><td width=\"150\"><p>\u00a0 04<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td width=\"462\"><p>\u00a0 Action Research<\/p><\/td><td width=\"150\"><p>\u00a0 01<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><p>Students should earn 31 credits from the above courses and components to complete the diploma programme. Please refer to Handbook of PG Diploma in Education for details.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Postgraduate Diploma in Education is designed for graduate teachers in government schools and other educational institutes to upgrade their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13596","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13596"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13600,"href":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13596\/revisions\/13600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.pgihs.ac.lk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}