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Fully-funded for state school teachers
All state school teachers are eligible for a full scholarship for NPQSL.
The Department for Education has confirmed that it will fully fund your place on the NPQSL Spring 2024 Intake.
Funding for independent school teachers
The Apprenticeship Levy funds the School Leader Programme with NPQSL. With this programme, you can complete the NPQSL and the Level 5 Operation/Departmental Manager Standard simultaneously. Click here for more information.
National Qualifications, Local Delivery
We work with a fantastic NPQ Delivery Partner Network made up of England's leading Teaching School Hubs (TSHs), MATs and other schools groups to deliver NPQs across England.
By working with local schools groups, we ensure that these national qualifications are contextualised to your locality with Face-to-Face events facilitated by local experts and held in local schools. Click the map to the right to find your nearest group.
Online-only groups
Face-to-Face events are one of the most popular aspects of the NPQSL and we always advise NPQSL participants to attend where possible.
However, if you are unable to take time off school to attend the 4 Face-to-Face events an online-only option is available.
Our online-only NPQSL substitutes the Face-to-Face events with facilitated online webinars and awards the same DfE-accredited NPQSL certificate.
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At a glance
Course duration
18 Months
Face-to-face Events
4
Online learning
38 hours
Coaching
6 hours
Total Learning Hours
90 hours
Hear from our NPQSL participants
Hear directly from some of our NPQSL participants about why they chose to complete NPQSL and the impact it is having on them and their schools.
Benefits for participants
- Facilitation and support from serving school leaders in outstanding schools
- Purpose-built virtual learning environment enabled for mobiles and tablets
- Delivery at local venues
- Support to pass the final assessment
- Content contextualised for your locality and updated to reflect national developments and legislation
- Assessment tasks that involve professional enquiry into relevant aspects of your school’s current practices
- Choose what to study. Our regular needs analysis support participants to focus their energies on those aspects of their leadership they most wish to develop
- Flexible delivery arrangements according to needs and circumstances e.g. provision for staff who work part-time
- The NPQSL qualification is aligned to Masters credits and can act as a springboard on to Liverpool Hope University’s MA in Leading in Education or the MBA in Educational Leadership
Benefits for Schools - develop leaders who
- Are able to make a positive contribution to a wide range of whole school activities
- Are equipped with essential knowledge and understanding of what we are learning about effective practice in both operational and strategic leadership and management at a whole school level
- Have the skills necessary to successfully implement sustainable changes intended to secure improved pupil outcomes
- Recognise the importance of having a secure evidence-base to underpin their strategic decision-taking and is familiar with the science of learning
- Share common understandings and a shared professional language with other leaders in your school - the 'golden thread' of professional development
Scholarships
Full NPQ scholarships, covering the entire cost of the qualifications, are available for all colleagues working in state-funded schools, across all phases. As well as state-funded schools, all state-funded organisations that offer 16 to 19 places in England are eligible for full NPQ scholarships.
There is no limit to how many scholarships a single school can receive but please bear in mind that NPQ participants will attend Face-to-Face events during term time as part of the course. Online-only NPQ delivery is available to candidates on request.
Scholarships have been confirmed for the Autumn NPQ intake as part of the government’s long-term education recovery plan.
From autumn 2022, organisations eligible to access scholarships include:
- State-funded schools
- State-funded 16 to 19 organisations
- Independent special schools
- Virtual schools (local authority run organisations that support the education of children in care)
- Hospital schools not already included in other categories of eligible organisations
- Young offender institutions
Local authority employed supply teachers will also be able to access scholarships.
Targeted Support funding
The department has updated the Targeted Support Fund offer for the 2023 to 2024 academic year to further incentivise state-funded schools and state-funded 16-19 educational settings in England to participate in NPQs.
For each teacher or leader they employ who takes an NPQ in the 2023 to 2024 academic year:
- State-funded primary schools with one to 150 pupils will receive a grant payment of £800
- State-funded primary schools with more than 150 pupils will recieve a grant payment of £200
- State-funded secondary schools and state-funded 16 to 19 educational settings with one to 600 pupils will recieve a grant payment of £200
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Other NPQs
A total of 8 fully-funded NPQs are available to teachers in state-funded schools and academies in England.
Take a look at the brochures below to find out more.