NPQ Funding Information

From Spring 2025, scholarship funding to cover the full suite of NPQ course costs will be available to teachers and leaders from:

• Schools: the top 50% of state funded schools in England that have the highest proportion of students attracting pupil premium, as set out in the eligibility lists
• 16-19 settings: the top 50% of state funded settings in England that have the highest proportion of students eligible for disadvantage funding 
• For the early years leadership NPQ, highly disadvantaged early years settings will also be eligible

Eligibility lists for the spring cohort will be made available in early 2025.

Scholarship funding will continue to be available to teachers and leaders from publicly funded schools and 16 to 19 educational organisations for the following NPQs: 

• NPQ in Leading Primary Mathematics (NPQLPM)
• NPQ for SENCOs
• NPQ in Headship (NPQH)
• Early Headship Coaching Offer (EHCO)

Funding for these 3 NPQs will also be available to:

• Hospital schools
• Young offender institutions
• Local authority virtual school head teachers and staff in direct teaching roles (local-authority-run organisations that support the education of children in care)
• Other local authority staff in a direct teaching role (for example, local authority supply or peripatetic teachers)

Funding is applied for through the DfE’s registration process/portal, the DfE portal is expected to open in February 2025.

The costs for those not able to access a funded place have been provided by Teach First below.