The NPQEL offers a tailored programme of professional learning for the following colleagues:

• School leaders who are, or are aspiring to be, an executive headteacher or have a school trust CEO role with responsibility for leading several schools.

The programme will support you and your setting as follows:

• Create professionally confident leaders who can lead at scale.
• Grow the next generation of leaders with the skills and knowledge to use the evidence base for the benefit of children, young people and wider communities.
• Retain and develop the best teachers and leaders who are excellent, collaborative role models for their schools and communities.
• Inspire leaders who can harness the power of rich learning environments for children and young people no matter the current circumstances

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Click here to view the BPN Leadership Brochure

Assessment

In order to complete NPQEL, you will be required to:

• Attend all programme sessions.
• Ensure a minimum of 90% engagement with the programme.
• Complete a summative case study style assessment.

To support you in the completion of NPQEL, our offer includes as standard:

• An engaging curriculum which blends face-to-face, online and self-study.
• A supportive facilitator and peer network.
• A national cohort to enable the education system’s most senior colleagues to learn with and from each other, led centrally by UCL Centre for Educational Leadership.

The Framework:

National Professional Qualification (NPQ): Executive Leadership Framework (publishing.service.gov.uk)

October 2025 – March 2027 (18 months)

Face-to-face sessions will be held at venues throughout the UK.

Please note this NPQ is delivered nationally via UCL or BPN and sessions are not hosted at The Education Exchange.