The Postgraduate Diploma course is a two year course made up of four semesters of tuition and a supervised Teaching Practice lasting at least one full school term.

The Teaching Practice will be taken after the examination of the second year. Teaching Practice will be done on two teaching subjects.
In the first year, students will take ten compulsory course units and in the second year students will take eight compulsory course units and three electives with two taken from the subject methods as
follows:
a. Take all the core courses in each of the following areas of
education:
Educational Foundations
Educational Psychology
Educational Planning and Administration
Curriculum Development
Educational Communication and Technology
Introduction to Research
b. Take at least one elective from the following courses:
Teacher Education
Principles of Adult Education
Introduction to Distance Education
Introduction to Special Education
c. Take two courses in subject methods to enable students to teach those subjects in the Secondary School Curriculum.

Course outline:
Students will be required to take eighteen compulsory courses and three electives.

First Year:
Educational Foundation (core units):
DEF101 History of Education
DEF102 Philosophy of Education

Educational Psychology (core units):
DEP101 Introduction to Psychology
DEP102 Psychology of Human Development
DEP103 Psychology of Learning and Teaching

Educational Planning, Administration and Curriculum Development (core units):
DAP101 Education and Development
DAP102 Curriculum Development

Educational Communication and Technology (core units):
DCT101 General Methods
DCT102 Education Technology and Media
DCT103A Introduction to Research Methods

Second Year:
Educational Foundations:
DEF201 Sociology of Education
DEF202 Comparative and Contemporary Issues in Education
DEF203 Principles of Adult Education

Educational Psychology (core units):
DEP201 Educational Measurements and Evaluation
DEP202 Fundamentals of Guidance and Counselling
DEP203 Introduction to Special Education

Educational Planning, Administration and Curriculum Development: DAP201 Educational Administration
DAP202 Educational Planning and Economics of Education
DAP203 Teacher Education

Educational Communication and Technology:
DCT103B Research Project
DCT201 Introduction to Distance Education
DCT202 English Language Method
DCT203 Literature in English Method
DCT204 Kiswahili Method
DCT205 History and Government Method
DCT206 Geography Method
DCT207 Mathematics Method
DCT208 Physics Method
DCT209 Chemistry Method
DCT210 Biological Sciences Method
DCT211 Religious Education Method
DCT212 Social Education and Ethics Method
DCT213 Home Science Method
DCT214 Art and Design Method
DCT215 Agriculture Method.

Entrance qualifications: The minimum qualifications for this course shall be a first degree in at least two teaching subjects, or its equivalent, obtained from a recognised University with a minimum of two years teaching experience.

Special consideration may be given to candidates with double subjects such as Home Science, Music and Fine Art.

Candidates with double subjects will be required to identify a second teaching subject and take special methods in their second year.