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Schools can fund NPQs through apprenticeship levy following Best Practice Network appointment
July 24 2020
Schools across England will now be able to use their apprenticeship levy to cover the cost of National Professional Qualification (NPQ) leadership development programmes for middle and senior leaders.
WOW: Leading a primary school through lockdown
June 18 2020
Leading a primary school through the lockdown has had its fair share of challenges for executive principal Sophie Murfin. She speaks to Yvonne Gandy about how this period has triggered changes that will continue when normal service eventually resumes.
Leadership learning and a baptism of fire
May 04 2020
From television crews to Ofsted judgements, Del Planter quickly put his professional learning into action when he became headteacher for the first time during a tumultuous time. Yvonne Gandy finds out more.
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Cultivating the lead practitioner role
May 01 2020
Headteacher and MAT CEO Stephen Dean created a maths improvement strategy as part of his CPD studies – an approach that created immediate, notable results. Yvonne Gandy learns more.
'Coronavirus has closed our school for a month'
March 16 2020
With his pupils off school in Hong Kong due to the coronavirus threat, NPQH Candidate Matt Seddon has had to try to keep them learning
Full DfE scholarships confirmed for Autumn 2020 NPQ intake
March 04 2020
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Full DfE scholarships for our NPQs will be made available for the Autumn 2020 NPQ intake.
International launch for BPN executive leader programme
February 17 2020
Best Practice Network (BPN) has begun the next phase of its international school leadership qualifications roll-out with the launch of its National Professional Qualification in Executive Leadership (NPQEL) programme for international schools.
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International Distance NPQML - Scott Shovelton case study
February 17 2020
Scott Shovelton’s NPQML project provided a major boost to pastoral support at his school in Qatar. Scott, who is head of Physical Education at Doha British School’s Al Wakra campus, developed a learning mentor programme for one of the qualification’s required school improvement projects.
Teacher wellbeing: With you, for you, about you...
February 14 2020
Professional development is the thread running through one school’s innovative retention and wellbeing strategy. Yvonne Gandy finds out more
CPD: Books on the balcony...
January 21 2020
School leaders can find inspiration and solutions if they build reading for professional development into their schedules, says Yvonne Gandy.
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