NPQEL

UCL’s NPQ in Executive Leadership, is an 18 month programme that 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. UCL run this NPQ centrally. You will experience a blended approach of two residential events, self-directed study materials and in school support to enable you to progress professionally and grow the networks that will enhance your career.

What will you learn?

• Trust culture – you will establish and sustain an effective trust culture through communicating its strategic direction, supporting leaders to prioritise, allocate and manage human and financial resources whilst fulfilling all statutory duties to enable a thriving trust community with ambitious standards for all.
• Teaching – you will learn how to establish and sustain effective teaching across the trust to support school leaders to embed 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 school and trust leaders to sustain high quality planning, teaching and learning. Ensure that assessment and data collection is readily available and reliable and informs both the design and delivery of professional development for teachers within and across the trust.
• Operational management – you will learn how to run a group of schools effectively, considering long term strategic and financial planning, the use of cross-trust staff and a range of operational structures.
• Behaviour and support – you will be able to ensure that your schools establish and sustain high standards of behaviour and learning across the whole trust community. Within your schools you will develop the expertise to oversee an approach with all leaders and key stakeholders to build a safe, inclusive learning environment for all.
• Implementation – you will learn how to work with leaders to implement change across the trust successfully by understanding the complexity of multiple implementation projects and aligning them with wider trust priorities.
• Trust governance – you will learn how to apply robust risk management strategies within the context of trust governance, the national policy space and the regulatory environment associated with it.

To find out more please visit UCL’s NPQEL page:

UCL's NPQEL

Cost

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

The programme fee is £4,099 (+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.