Eligibility criteria

FUNDING: DfE funding has changed for the National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) commencing in Autumn 2024.  Only a small number of NPQs will continue to be funded for all teachers and leaders from publicly funded schools and these programmes are:

• NPQ for SENCOs (Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators)
• NPQLPM (National Professional Qualification Leading Primary Maths)
• NPQH (National Professional Qualification for Headship)
• Early Headship Coaching Offer (EHCO) (If you are in your first 5 years of headship in England in a state-funded school or state-funded 16 to 19 organisation. You should also be doing or have done the headship NPQ.  

FUNDING ELIGIBILITY FOR ALL OTHER NPQs:  Scholarship funding will be available to those schools with the highest proportion of pupils eligible for pupil premium funding, or 16 to 19 settings with ‘high disadvantage’. The number of funded places has also been capped nationally across all training providers.

For information concerning which schools are eligible for the scholarship, please see our Nhttps://www.gov.uk/guidance/funding-for-national-professional-qualifications-npqs#scholarship-funding-for-autumn-2024