This course is run on a modular basis; this programme equips students with a range of academic, professional and vocational knowledge, understanding, skills and values necessary to become a high quality and skilled teacher of post compulsory education; the programme aims to develop reflective and analytical skills as well as providing practical experience in planning effective lessons and learning strategies, hands-on classroom experience, and opportunities to further students' own subject knowledge; successful completion of this course leads to Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), subject to satisfactory performance in skills tests.