Fully-funded scholarships for NPQs now available for all teachers and leaders.

From autumn 2021, a new suite of National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) will be available for teachers and leaders who want to develop their expertise in leadership and specialisms in teaching. These qualifications offer those in the profession the best possible professional development, you can find out more here.

All  teachers and leaders employed at state-funded schools, as well as state-funded 16-19 organisations can now access fully-funded scholarships to undertake NPQs. 

To best address the broad range of responsibilities of current and aspiring middle leaders we have replaced the existing Middle Leadership NPQ with three new specialist NPQs. These specialist areas cover:
• supporting the training and development of others, including early career teachers;
• developing teachers who are subject leads or responsible for improving teaching practice in a subject or phase; and
• developing teachers who have responsibilities for leading behaviour and culture.

The three existing NPQs in Senior Leadership, Headship and Executive Leadership have been updated, ensuring that they are underpinned by the latest evidence of what works.

We are also introducing two additional NPQs which will be available from autumn 2022: the NPQ for Leading Literacy and the NPQ for Early Years Leadership. All of our NPQ frameworks can be found here.

For more information or to sign up, visit https://www.gov.uk/education/teacher-training-and-professional-development