Quaternary education or postgraduate education is the fourth-stage educational level which follows the completion of an undergraduate degree at a college or university. Graduate school is an example of quaternary education; some consider postdoctoral positions to be quaternary education while others consider them to be jobs.
The demand for awards for postgraduate study far exceeds the level of resources the government is able to devote to it.
Postgraduate courses of primary and secondary teacher training at higher education institutions in the United Kingdom.
If you are taking a Postgraduate Certificate of Education or a Postgraduate Diploma in Community Education immediately after you complete an undergraduate course, the support arrangements will be the same as you received for your undergraduate course which will be mainly a studnet loan..