The PGCE is a one year course that involves placements in Schools. Most places will only take you if you intend to teach in the UK state system after your year of studying. Generally you will be expected to have a couple of weeks observational experience in the UK state system BEFORE applying. Then you'd do the course along with placements for approximately nine months, during which you'd be expected to pay International fees (in the region of 10-15k) and your own subsistence costs.
There's no way of guaranteeing several years experience after your PGCE. You'd have to go through the same mechanisms as everyone else; i.e. apply for a job, hope you get it, and then work in it for a couple of years. I suspect the VISA arrangements for this are fairly complex though, and the pay for newly qualified teachers is pretty poor. With Maths you may do better than most. Even so-called distance learning PGCEs offered by a number of Universities require you to do many months of placements in this country.
I'm sorry I couldn't be more helpful, but I don't think the PGCE will do what you want it to.
If you can arrange a VISA to work in this country it might be worth seeing if you can do the Graduate Teaching Programme. This is two years on-the-job training. The pay isn't great but you wouldn't be expected to pay fees..... but you'd effectively have to find a post at a School that would be willing to sponsor you.

Missspacey, I think you hit the nail on the head. Just to add, this is also about (1) the number of qualifications you require for each job/ amount of years spent in education and (2) the amount of debt that often entails....

I'd second Miss Spacey's response really. As I'm sure you know Psychology is highly competitive so I think you might struggle. That's not to say it isn't worth a bash!

You need to provide some info regarding your discipline if you want a constructive response.

Generally you'd expect to have heard by now if you'd been successful.
But as the OP stated you could call. I very much doubt it will jeopardise your chances; admin staff generally deal with enquiries, not academics!

Hey,
On the subject of staff versus student training there may be a mechanism of getting around this. At my University (in London, Russell Group) students aren't generally allowed to go on staff training courses, however if you're prepared to put up a deposit (e.g. a cheque that will only be cashed if you don't attend) they'll let you go. It's more about the department being concerned about wasting their money than anything else, as they get charged if you don't turn up.
So it might be worth investigating this one further...,

Youngsta,

If possible you should consider going elsewhere. This strongly suggests that your department isn't particularly confident with regards to your supervision, and that someone elsewhere might be alot more appropriate.
AHRC funding is, however, highly competitive and many people will fail to get it. This doesn't mean that it's a hopeless case! You might want to think about whether your grades are sufficiently exceptional for you to be able to expect funding.
My other half just got funding for his second and third years, having failed to get it for his first. I also know of several other people in this position so all is not lost!!
S

What are the options here?
- Resubmit a completely rewritten res prop?
- Attempt to proceed without AHRC funding?
- Give up?
-Some/all of the above?

I've made no secret of the fact that I'm trying to get pregnant, and similarly have a funded scholarship with what equates to 9 months fully paid maternity leave (which is pretty good in comparison with the world of work!). I am however quite a lot older than you, and my husband is 6 years older than me, so we have, shall we say, time constraints!!!
My advice would be to think about your age (young!) and your husbands. I can't give you advice on how easy it is to get back in; i'm a social scientist which means my PhD is pretty flexible. Also, in certain labs there my be chemical issues which would prevent you from doing lab work while pregnant. This might impact upon your decision.
One further issue:- if you don't start trying until 18 months in that only gives 18 months for you to get pregnant and give birth, i.e. effectively 9 months of trying. If you have a long cycle this can equate to only 8 or even 7 cycles. And quite alot of people won't get pregnant that quickly. Throughout your teenage years you're constantly told 'it only takes once to get pregnant'. In fact, very few people will get pregnant from just once. So, you could end up not managing it in that time frame and having to delay or face the prospect of a new baby and being unemployed.
Other things to think about:-
1) where are you living? do you rent/ own your place? I'm going to be in the latter category shortly, and while we would have been very happy to try whilst renting there are implications. I.e. if your boiler breaks you have to wait a 'reasonable time' for your landlord to fix it and might end up without hot water for a couple of days with a baby, in a situation that's out of your control.
2) do you intend to keep living in the same place
3) can you afford childcare
4) have you got plenty of back-up from family and friends
5) what does your other half do? will he be in a position to do his share of child care?

I don't mean to sound negative!!! Having a baby looks a wonderful thing. But it even took me and my other half over a year to decide we definitely wanted to go for it....

I think, with all honesty, you're likely stuffed.
Even in my (very big) department they only have four PhD scholarships. You'd need everyone to drop out! Take a look at previous statistics on AHRC website on people who declined scholarships. There are virtually none. Admittedly this was when you could only apply to one Institution, but still, I'd start looking elsewhere if I were you.

Thanks all, I think Ill use endnote!

I think you should give yourself a pat on the back for how well you are managing!!!
I don't know what area your PhD is in but there are possibly a number of things that might help.
Try and talk to your University's disabilities office. I was extremely reluctant to do this as despite suffering from a mental illness I didn't want to get bound up in all of the negative connotations of 'being disabled' but my counsellor suggested I did....
I was walked through applying for DSA which meant that I got various equipment (computing stuff, a voice recorder) that I couldn't have otherwise have afforded. It means I can work from bed if I'm having a particularly bad day! Voice recorder is great for sending other people off with to lectures if I'm in no state to attend..... I also got a books allowance, which isn't really that useful when you're doing a PhD where the site reports are out of print. But it enabled me to get a selection of interesting/useful books that are difficult to get hold of at University, and a photocopying allowance.
To be honest, the most helpful aspect of it is I can send one email in to the disabilities office and they'll tell other 'approved' people what's going on, extend my library book loans, etc....
I do hope you try to be a bit kinder to yourself :)
x

The MSc's offered by UCL do not allow direct transferral onto a PhD programme. You'd have to reapply for the MPhil/PhD, be upgraded ultimately to the PhD without receiving an MPhil... but you'd come out with an MSc and an PhD. Moreover, it would only give you three years to do the PhD and I think most people expect to go over...

The MSc's offered by UCL do not allow direct transferral onto a PhD programme. You'd have to reapply for the MPhil/PhD, be upgraded ultimately to the PhD without receiving an MPhil... but you'd come out with an MSc and an PhD. Moreover, it would only give you three years to do the PhD and I think most people expect to go over...

I wonder if anyone could advise me as to what software they use to manage their references if they use a Mac, I know that there's no version of 'Reference Manager' for Mac and I'm struggling to find anything else easily accessible.
I hope that this doesn't constitute advertising,.....


S

Yeh I have that (perfectionist) problem too.....sometimes it helps to be easy on yourself; take half a day off, go to the flicks, sit in a park (if you've got the weather I have!).....