National Professional Qualifications
If you are actively participating in one of our NPQ programmes, please visit the 'Hub library-NPQ' tab of our website.
Are you ready? Apply now for our next cohorts commencing November 2026! See 'Apply for your NPQ' for details.
National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) are trusted, transferable qualifications for educational professionals. Accredited by the DfE, NPQs are designed to refresh existing skills and provide high quality professional development for teachers and leaders. Partnering with our lead provider, Ambition Institute, we offer the five specialist and five leadership NPQ programmes. See 'Explore NPQs for further details on each programme.
What are the benefits of doing an NPQ?
NPQs benefit leaders in schools whatever your starting point. There are plenty of opportunities to learn: this includes formal knowledge to build your understanding of the evidence base in the topic you're studying. You also gain informal knowledge that comes from working with facilitators and peers, and an understanding of how to enact change in your setting. NPQs create connections between you and peers: you get networks that last beyond the NPQs and materials that you can use immediately or revisit over time in your leadership journey. As part of the golden thread, the frameworks which underpin NPQs make clear links to initial teacher training and early career training, and are a great way of building shared knowledge across schools or trusts.
Watch to find out what our NPQ delegates have to say about the benefits of partaking in an NPQ programme.
Watch to find out what our senior leaders think of the impact their staff undertaking NPQs has on pupils.
Ambition Blogs
- Using National Professional Qualifications across a school | Ambition Institute
- How the NPQs grow your knowledge and expertise | Ambition Institute
- What are the benefits of National Professional Qualifications? | Ambition Institute
- How one teacher has made an NPQ work in a small school setting | Ambition Institute
- Lifelong learning in action: Maria’s NPQ journey | Ambition Institute
Working with Ambition Institute
Ambition Institute's NPQ programmes benefit all participants as content is centred on the persistent problems faced in schools. Each NPQ programme is created with a carefully sequenced curriculum to support teachers and leaders getting better over time.
The programmes broaden and deepen expertise in specialist areas and include flexible blended learning to fit around busy timetables with minimal time out of school.
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