The Bach Centre-Approved Continuing Education (BC-ACE) programme encourages the provision of serious, professional, challenging education for practitioners and advanced students.
Teaching a BC-ACE event is a chance to share your specialist skills, interests and experiences with other practitioners.
Who can teach a BC-ACE event?
All BFRPs are eligible to teach or lead BC-ACE events. You don’t need extra training or a teacher licence, but you do need to apply to the Centre for approval of your event and show in your application that you have the right skills and experience to teach the topic.
Your BFRP or BFRAP registration must be up to date when we accept the event and remain up to date on the day(s) the event runs.
Event leaders do not have to be existing licensed trainers of Levels 1, 2 or 3. We are looking for BFRPs with a wide range of skills and interests to give us the widest range of BFRPs to choose from.
The teacher of a BC-ACE event in most cases will be the event leader, but there is scope for event leaders to invite other teachers – who may or may not be BFRPs – to teach all or part of their event. Any such teachers must be qualified to teach the subject they will be involved in, whether academically or through personal experience in the area concerned.
What kind of events can be part of the BC-ACE programme?
BC-ACE events can include workshops, series of lectures, online events, the activities of a discussion group, or a modular framework into which the person leading the event can build different content at different times. This means almost anything can be under consideration for inclusion.
The main restrictions are:
- The event leader must be a current BFRP or BFRAP
- All teachers must be suitably qualified to present or lead their sessions
- The subject and approach must be consistent with the Bach Foundation Code of Practice
- The event must be serious, professional and challenging
- The delivery method and timing must be appropriate for the subject and the number of students
How does certification work?
Event leaders are given a link to a page where they can order PDF certificates, which they can either print and hand out on the last day of an event, or email to students.
How can I get my event approved?
Send a BC-ACE Application Form to the Bach Centre, along with copies of handouts, course notes, outlines, and any other supporting information you have available. Submit a separate application for each event title that you want us to consider.
An approval fee is payable (2024: £60 per event title) to cover the application process. We take this whether or not we grant approval of the event. However, it includes the cost of two re-submissions of the same event if an initial application has been declined.
When we receive an application we may contact you to discuss your proposal before deciding to grant approval.
Do you list approved events on the web site?
Yes – when your event has been approved you will be given access so that you can list the dates and other details on our site.