Revealed: New NPQ school leadership training providers

The government has revealed the nine organisations that have won Department for Education deals to deliver the reformed school leadership qualifications.

The “lead training providers” will offer the new national professional qualifications (NPQs) from September 2021.

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They are:

• Ambition Institute
• Best Practice Network (which manages the Outstanding Leaders Partnership)
• The Church of England
• Education Development Trust
• Harris Federation
• Leadership Learning South East
• Teacher Development Trust
• Teach First
• UCL Institute of Education

The Department for Education said the providers had been chosen by “a fair and open procurement process”.

New NPQs in middle leadership

As part of the reforms, the current NPQ in middle leadership will be replaced with three new NPQs in:

• Leading teacher development: supporting the training and development of others.
• Leading teaching: developing teachers who are subject leads or responsible for improving teaching practice in a subject or phase.
• Leading behaviour and culture: developing teachers who have responsibilities for leading behaviour and culture.

The government has also reformed the three existing NPQs in senior leadership, headship and executive leadership.