NPQH (National Professional Qualifications for Headship)
- Programme starts: Autumn 2025 (date TBD)
- Duration: 18 months
- Cost: 3,250
Interested in enrolling in this NPQ programme for Autumn 2025?
The first step is easy. Just let us know your interest by completing the NPQ Interest Form, and we will take you through the journey step-by-step.
This programme is for:
- Teachers and leaders spired to lead a school as a head of school or headteacher.
What you will learn:
- School Culture – you will establish and sustain an effective school culture by setting the strategic direction, managing human and financial resources and fulfilling all statutory duties to enable a sustainable and thriving school community.
- Teaching – you will learn how to establish and support effective teaching across your school to develop and embed your teacher’s pedagogical knowledge and classroom skills to enable the best outcomes for all children and young people no matter what their starting point is.
- Curriculum and Assessment – you will learn how to support and sustain high quality planning, teaching, learning and assessment by ensuring the implementation of effective and coherent policies. Appropriate and well-designed professional development for the teachers in your school will align with these priorities.
- Behaviour and Support – you will be able to establish and sustain high standards of behaviour and learning across the whole school community, including liaising with and training key stakeholders to ensure a safe, inclusive learning environment for all.
- Implementation – you will learn how to implement change successfully within your context by understanding the stages of implementation and aligning it with wider school improvement priorities.
Interested in exploring other NPQ Leadership Programmes?
Click on any of the programmes below to learn more.
NPQEYL (NPQ Early Years Leadership)
Teachers and leaders aspired to lead a nursery as a manager of a PVI nursery, a headteacher of a school-based or maintained nursery or a childminder with leadership responsibilities.
Cost: £2,250
What’s unique about our programme:
In addition to the DfE required content, our programme includes an Implementation Project which provides you with a great opportunity to reflect on and apply what you have learned throughout the programme in the context of your school, aligning to the EEF process model for school improvement (not assessed).
Programme route map:
Interested in the detailed structure, timeline and the hours you can expect to invest in the programme? Click on the below route map to learn more.
Assessment and accreditation:
To receive the DfE accreditation, you will need to (1) ensure 90% engagement in the programme throughout, and (2) pass the open-book summative case study task scheduled for an eight-day period following the programme completion.
Interested in exploring other NPQ Leadership Programmes?
Click on any of the programmes below to learn more.
NPQEYL (NPQ Early Years Leadership)
Teachers and leaders aspired to lead a nursery as a manager of a PVI nursery, a headteacher of a school-based or maintained nursery or a childminder with leadership responsibilities.
Cost: £2,250
Benefits to you:
Our participants have outlined many benefits to studying for an NPQH. Overall, they outline how the programme has given them professional confidence, time and space to reflect on themselves and the kind of leader they want to become and increased knowledge in their chosen area of study.
You will be able to:
- Develop the skills, confidence and knowledge to implement new professional development initiatives successfully through a supported implementation project.
- Challenge pre-conceived ideas.
- Understand how to develop a culture in a school and know how to model it as school.
- Strengthen and affirm your thinking and understanding of high-quality leadership approaches.
- Learn how to provide a framework that encourages a safe, sustainable learning culture for pupil progress.
- Access research and materials and have many opportunities to discuss a variety of professional development approaches and models with other teachers.
Benefits for your school:
We know that our children and young people need teachers who are committed to their education and are confident learners themselves. Our programmes have been developed with teachers and leaders to:
- Create professionally confident teachers and leaders.
- Grow the next generation of leaders with the skills and knowledge to use the evidence-base for the benefit of their children and young people.
- Retain the best teachers who are excellent, collaborative role models for their schools and communities.
- Inspire leaders who can harness the power of rich learning environments for their children and young people no matter the current circumstances.
Watch: Laura Yandell, Deputy Head, AISL Harrow Hong Kong International School, discusses how NPQ programmes help develop a strong leadership pipeline for the school.
Interested in exploring other NPQ Leadership Programmes?
Click on any of the programmes below to learn more.
NPQEYL (NPQ Early Years Leadership)
Teachers and leaders aspired to lead a nursery as a manager of a PVI nursery, a headteacher of a school-based or maintained nursery or a childminder with leadership responsibilities.
Cost: £2,250
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