Early Career Teacher Support

Birmingham City University (BCU) are a Delivery Partner for the UCL ECF curriculum. 

Our UCL ECF programme Lead is Rachel Jones - Rachel.Jones@bcu.ac.uk 

Tutor Support

To access your ECF Curriculum all ECTs and Mentors must be registered by their Induction Tutor on the DfE portal.

UCLeXtend - Online Portal

Once registered Induction Tutors, Mentors and ECTs will receive a log-in to the UCLeXtend - this is an online portal within which all materials and units of study are contained. 

ECF Conference

In addition to your online portal - all ECTs and Mentors are required to attend CPD Events led by BCU - we will start Year 2 with an online Conference. Please hold the date below.

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Training Dates for 2024-25

ECT Training to be confirmed

Mentor Training 

To join any online BCU ECF event please join via the teams link below:

Join the meeting

Use your ECF training to secure a BCU Masters Degree

By following the UCL/BCU Early Career Teacher Support programme you will also have the opportunity to engage with either the Postgraduate Certificate or the Postgraduate Diploma stage of a Master of Learning and Teaching (MLT).

The MLT course is intended for those who are in the early stages of their career in education, drawing upon work already undertaken through the Early Career Teacher Framework.

Birmingham City University draws upon a strong tradition of supporting, validating and accrediting professional learning, centred upon practitioners’ own professional practice. Through carefully framed research, you will enquire into what, how and why your own practice works within (and across) education settings.

The MLT will enable you to activate change and successfully meet new challenges and opportunities in your professional career whilst building on work you are already doing. The MLT enables you to take increasing responsibility for your own development within a wider professional community.

We recognise the importance of who, where and when; through practice-led enquiry you will be able to reveal the nuances of your own professional practice to enhance your understanding of what you do and why you do it. This will help future-proof your career, enhancing your confidence and increasing your capacity to lead teams of colleagues.

This online course provides access to e-resources, such as online eBooks and journals, and our virtual learning environment (Moodle). You will still have access to our campus facilities, including the Education Collection in the Mary Seacole Library at our City South Campus in Edgbaston.

In common with all Master’s degrees, it is made up of three stages:

• The postgraduate certificate (60 credits at level 7)
• The postgraduate diploma (a further 60 credits at level 7)
• The Master’s (a further 60 credits at level 7)

Progress onto the diploma and the Master’s is dependent upon successful completion of the previous stage.

If you have just completed a Level 6 qualification with QTS, then you will begin a Postgraduate Certificate. Those who have already completed a Postgraduate teaching qualification at Level 7, you will begin a Postgraduate Diploma:

Level 6 with QTS Postgraduate Certificate

or a Level 7 with QTS Postgraduate Diploma