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Date

Starts on 01/10/2024

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Duration

18 months

Designed for

Aspiring executive leaders

Executive leaders

Curriculum

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Our NPQEL offers a tailored programme of professional learning for the following colleagues:

  • School leaders who are, or are aspiring to be, an executive headteacher or have a school trust CEO role with responsibility for leading several schools.

The programme will support you and your setting as follows:

  • Create professionally confident leaders who can lead at scale.
  • Grow the next generation of leaders with the skills and knowledge to use the evidence base for the benefit of children, young people and wider communities.
  • Retain and develop the best teachers and leaders who are excellent, collaborative role models for their schools and communities.
  • Inspire leaders who can harness the power of rich learning environments for children and young people no matter the current circumstances

 

Assessment

In order to complete NPQEL, you will be required to:

  • Attend all programme sessions.
  • Ensure a minimum of 90% engagement with the programme.
  • Complete a summative case study style assessment.

To support you in the completion of NPQEL, our offer includes as standard:

  • An engaging curriculum which blends face-to-face, online and self-study.
  • A supportive facilitator and peer network.
  • A national cohort to enable the education system’s most senior colleagues to learn with and from each other, led centrally by UCL Centre for Educational Leadership.

The Framework:

National Professional Qualification (NPQ): Executive Leadership Framework (publishing.service.gov.uk)

Dates, times & locations of training sessions

October 2024 – March 2026 (18 months)

February 2025 – July 2026 (18 months)

Face-to-face sessions will be held at venues throughout the UK.

Please note this NPQ is delivered nationally via UCL or BPN and sessions are not hosted at The Education Exchange.

 

Facilitators

NPQEL facilitators are experienced trust leaders and expert facilitators. The NPQEL programme is run centrally by our lead provider, in a programme involving participants from across the UK.

Next Steps

Apply now

The Department for Education (DfE) are currently accepting registrations for the Autumn 2024 cohort. Use the link below to access the portal and register today!

 

🔗DfE Registration

 

For an exploratory conversation about which NPQ is right for you, contact NPQS@exchangeteachinghub.org.uk

Further Info

Scholarship funding

Funding for autumn 2024 will target those teachers and leaders who work in the most challenging schools or educational settings, serving more disadvantaged communities.

Scholarship funding to cover the full NPQ course cost will be available to teachers and leaders from:

  • the 50% of schools with the highest proportion of students who attract pupil premium funding
  • 16 to 19 educational settings identified as having high disadvantage
  • For the early years leadership NPQ, highly disadvantaged early years settings will also be eligible.

Scholarships will continue to be available to all teachers and leaders from publicly funded schools and 16 to 19 educational organisations for the following NPQs:

  • Leading primary maths
  • SENCO  (NPQSEN)
  • Headship (NPQH)

For the early headship coaching offer, funding to cover the course fees will be available if you are in your first 5 years of headship in England in a state-funded school or state-funded 16 to 19 organisation. You should also be doing or have done the headship NPQ.

For more information, follow the link below.

🔗NPQ Funding – Department for Education

Deferral or Withdrawal from an NPQ Programme

Only in exceptional circumstances may a participant request either a deferral or withdrawal from their programme. Participants should be aware that there is a process to follow which is outlined in the following policies:

UCL’s NPQ Deferral and Withdrawal Policy. 

BPN’S NPQ Deferral Policy.

A participant considering withdrawal from an NPQ Programme should be aware that it is Department for Education Policy to only fund an NPQ course for a participant once. This means that a participant who starts a Department for Education funded NPQ course, and then withdraws from that course, will not be funded again for the same programme.