Education Training Foundation

How we help Further Education and Skills Professionals in Wales

The Education Training Foundation exists to support Further Education and Skills professionals across Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and the Channel Islands. We provide training and development programmes to support you to provide transformative education to learners aged 14+.  We are the professional body and workforce development charity that works across all different provider types in the Further Education and Skills sector.

We offer: 

• A flagship programme for Welsh technical teachers to advance technical teaching at a national level: the Technical Teaching Fellowship
• Professional Qualifications to certify your status as a Qualified Teacher of Learning and Skills and/or the Advanced Teacher Status.
• Professional Membership of the Education Training Foundation (join nearly 200 fellow Welsh FE and Skills Leaders, Teachers and Trainers, with nearly 23,000 members from across the Four Nations and Channel Islands - with webinars and Special Interest Groups on a variety of topics)
• Events and Conferences on Leadership and Teaching and Learning
• In-house Leadership Development (please email enquiries@etfoundation.co.uk)
• Training and support for Maths, English and ESOL teaching
• A highly-reputed programme for developing teachers interested in conducing research in the classroom: The Practitioner Research Programme
• Free online courses to support teachers to use EdTech or delivering Essential Digital Skills 

Technical Teaching Fellowships: Advancing Technical Education (November deadline)

Our flagship programme for Welsh Technical Teachers is the Technical Teaching Fellowships. This prestigious programme is funded by the Royal 1851 Commission and the Welsh Government to support teachers to share their technical expertise at a national level.  If you are a teacher or trainer in an ESFA-funded provider in Wales and would like to work on a technical teaching project of your choice to share widely with other technical teachers, please apply to receive up to £15K of remission funding, a programme mentor, 2 Professional Development Days with Professors from the University of Sunderland's Centre for Excellence in Teacher Training and opportunities to speak across the UK.

This year's fellows include Welsh colleagues at NPTC Group and Pembrokeshire College pushing the boundaries of technical education in using AR, VR and 3D modelling and international practice in the field of automechanics and using skills development techniques from World Skills UK competitions to support the transition and success of technical learners with high needs into mainstream post-16 study settings.  Many of our fellows have achieved great career progression, going on to leadership and influencing roles and speak very warmly about their experience with the programme and the lifetime networks they built with colleagues.

If you'd like to hear more, please email Sarah.Foxlee@etfoundation.co.uk or apply via this form.