The Professional Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) is a one-year postgraduate course for prospective teachers in Scotland.
A PGDE course can be taken in either Primary Education, which pertains to teaching of children from ages 3–12 (includes nursery provision) or Secondary Education, which requires the individual to be a subject specialist and involves the teaching of children aged 11–18.
The University of Aberdeen offers the Distance Learning Initial Teacher Education (DLITE) PGDE where graduates living in or working for one of the partner local authorities can receive a teaching qualification whilst working and studying part-time over 18 months.
The Scottish Funding Council analyses the need for teachers in Scotland's schools and decides the number of places for each subject in order to keep up with demand.
Some subjects will rarely run as a PGDE course as demand is so low, for example Classics and Greek.