Funding
Scholarship funding for autumn 2025
Scholarship funding is available for teachers and leaders in publicly funded schools (including maintained nursery schools) and 16 to 19 educational settings in England for the following NPQs:
Funding for these courses is also available to:
- schools eligible for targeted regional improvement for standards and excellence (RISE) intervention
- hospital schools
- young offender institutions
- local authority virtual school headteachers, staff in a defined deputy headteacher role and staff in direct teaching roles
- other local authority staff in direct teaching roles – for example, local authority supply or peripatetic teachers
Scholarship funding is also available for the following NPQs based on disadvantage criteria:
- leading teaching
- leading behaviour and culture
- leading literacy
- leading primary mathematics
- senior leadership
- executive leadership
- early years leadership
- leading teacher development
For these NPQs, scholarship funding to cover the full NPQ course cost will be available to teachers and leaders from eligible schools and 16 to 19 settings that have high levels of disadvantage.
For the NPQ in early years leadership, highly disadvantaged early years settings and maintained nursery schools will also be eligible.
For the NPQ in leading teacher development, scholarship funding is also available if you’re taking on the role of lead mentor for an initial teacher training (ITT) provider accredited to deliver ITT from September 2024.
To be eligible, your school or setting must be on one of the disadvantage eligibility lists.
