NPQSL

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UCL’s NPQ in Senior Leadership, 18 month programme puts you and your school at its heart through a professional learning group approach that helps you to share your thinking and understanding within a well-planned framework.

You will experience a blended approach of face to face sessions with Thames South TSH local expert facilitators, self-directed study materials and in school support to enable you to progress professionally and develop networks to enhance your career.

UCL’s participants have noted many benefits to studying for an NPQSL. 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.
  • Understand what level your skill set is at and recognise what this means for your career path.
  • Develop your own leadership persona to become more visible to colleagues.
  • Increase your understanding of your school’s structures and how they impact on the school’s learning environment.
  • Recognise that change must go through stages and sub-stages and that it must be planned effectively at the outset.
  • Access research and materials and have many opportunities to discuss a variety of professional development approaches and models with other teachers.

To find out more, including the programme schedule, please visit:

UCL’s NPQSL

Cost

Scholarship funding is available for the NPQSL based on a disadvantage criteria. Please check here to see if your setting is eligible for full funding.

The programme fee is £1,055 (+VAT) for schools and participants in England who are not eligible for scholarship funding and are required to pay for the programme. The same fee applies to independent schools in England.

How to apply

Registration for Autumn 2025 NPQs is now open. To register click here. UCL's deadline to apply is Friday 14th November.