Corporate partnership

As a Corporate Partner of the Society for Education and Training (SET), the membership arm of the Education and Training Foundation (ETF), your teaching staff will receive SET membership.

Professionalising your workforce with Corporate Partnership Status.

View the current SET Corporate partners by visiting the SET website.

How Corporate Partnership status benefits your organisation

SET membership will help you:

Professionalise your teaching workforce

• Ensure each of your staff is following our Code of Practice , which sets out the professional behaviour and conduct expected of our members.
• Upskill your staff with Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills (QTLS) and Advanced Teacher Status (ATS).

Empower your staff and demonstrate your commitment to them

• Support in embedding the ETF Professional Standards.
• SET is an additional staff benefit to aid recruitment and retention.
• Discount for SET Annual Conference places.

Ensure that “Empowered teachers = Improved outcomes for learners”

• Better quality teaching is key to Ofsted.

Provide a cost-effective way of offering CPD to extend your staff’s development

• Each individual SET member of a Corporate Partner receives 15 per cent discount on Education and Training Foundation (ETF) CPD courses.
• A 10 per cent discount is also available for in-house ETF courses hosted at your organisation for any staff with SET membership through the Corporate Partner agreement.
• Receive management information on your staff’s professional membership.
• Dedicated support team – take away the burden of searching for relevant CPD.

Gain recognition for your college and your staff

• Better quality teaching will improve your reputation and increase demand for places.
• Create a sought-after place to teach and study.
• Use of SET Corporate Partner logo.
• Access to a co-branded toolkit to produce CPD information for your teachers.

How Corporate Partnership status benefits your teachers

SET membership provides your teaching staff with a range of benefits, focusing on the three pillars of career, profession and community.

Your career

• Your passport to gain QTLS status.
• Your pathway to ATS, the badge of advanced professionalism and mastery.
• Exclusive access to our online research library of essential CPD content and e-learning platforms.
• Benefit from heavily-subsidised and further discounted CPD courses run by the ETF.
• Podcasts, blogs and articles from the best teaching and training experts.
• Dedicated support and content for teachers and trainers in their early careers.

Your profession

• Be part of an organisation which promotes and champions the quality of the sector’s teachers, trainers and leaders.
• Receive our highly regarded quarterly magazine InTuition and monthly e-newsletter, intuition extra – packed with the best expert opinion, features and case studies.
• Track yourself against the ETF’s Professional Standards, the benchmark for effective practice in FE teaching and training.
• Use the SET designation and digital pin in your signature, CV and business card.
• Measure and demonstrate your professional development – use our online self-assessment and planner tool.

Your community

• Be part of the largest professional network of teachers and trainers in the FE sector.
• You are invited to a calendar of local network group events, to meet and exchange with like-minded professionals in your sector – including the SET Conference.
• Online communities and support through member-only webinars, live webchats and Facebook community groups.
• Contribute to the SET community as a valued mentor on our mentoring service, or gain valuable support from the service as a mentee.

Find out more about the benefits of Corporate Partnership and how to get involved on the SET website. If you have any queries, please contact us on partnership@etfoundation.co.uk.

What they say:

Nigel Duncan, Principal and Chief Executive of Fareham College (rated Outstanding by Ofsted) in Hampshire, said:

“As part of our Corporate Partner status, we have accessed a number of the ETF’s CPD and networking events, and taken part in funding opportunities such as the Outstanding Teaching and Learning Assessment (OTLA) grant collaborative project. The partnership helps us stay up to date with key issues across the sector. With a key strategic priority to invest in our staff, we find accessing CPD activities across all areas of the curriculum particularly valuable. These have included; managing student behaviour, supporting learners with maths and English, developing an awareness of student mental health issues and supporting students with additional needs. Flexible methods of study that can meet the diverse needs of the Fareham workforce is key to engagement and thus the online courses offered by the ETF are a really effective and accessible mode of delivery.”

John Humphreys, Head of Human Resources of West London College, said:

“We wanted to support Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and maximise both the skills of our existing staff and attract new teachers and trainers. Our key priorities for teaching and learning are to have outstanding teachers and for every learner to be able to achieve their best. The biggest challenge we are currently facing is to recruit, retain and develop teachers in English and STEM subjects – and this is the kind of tailored support being delivered by the ETF.”