Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE)
Contact
The in-service ACEs are run by the Professional Development Centre (PDC). For more information on ACEs, please contact:
MJ Jackson
Phone: 046 603 7264
Email: m.jackson@ru.ac.za
ACE Application Form: ACE Application Form
Description and Purpose
The Advanced Certificate in Education is a Level 6 qualification in the National Qualifications Framework.
The ACE courses afford practising educators the opportunity of updating or enriching their existing knowledge in a particular area of specialisation; or alternatively, of changing their area of specialisation.
Entry Requirements
The ACE courses are open to practising teachers who have as a minimum, a professional three-year teaching qualification ( NQF Level 5 / M+3 / Category C). Applicants for Mathematics and the Science ACE need not have formal qualifications in those subjects, but they must be practising teachers in those subjects.
Duration
The Rhodes ACE programmes are generally run on a part-time basis over 2 years, where students attend contact sessions over weekends and during school holidays (200 contact hours).
ACE Specialisations
While each ACE offers a different specialisation, all the ACE courses share a core curriculum of theoretical knowledge and practical skills which are deemed central to the education profession.
- Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) in Early Childhood Development (ECD)
- Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) in Environmental Education (EE)
- Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) in English Language Training (ELT)
- Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) in Information Communication Technology (ICT)
- Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) in Intermediate Phase (IP)
- Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) in Life Orientation (LO)
- Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) in Mathematics (Foundation/IP) (MP)
- Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) in Mathematics (Senior/FET) (MS)
- Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) in Mathematics Literacy (ML)
- Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) in School Leadeship (SL)
- Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) in Science (SM)
- Advanced Certificate in Education (ACE) in Technology (TE)
