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Steps to start an NPQ or the early headship coaching offer.
Description of the national professional qualifications (NPQs) available to teachers and school leaders for providers to use when designing their courses.
Guidance for appropriate bodies, headteachers, school staff and governing bodies.
Ofsted's policy for considering whether to defer or pause an inspection or visit, or whether additional evidence needs to be gathered.
A course to help teachers and school leaders develop leadership knowledge and expertise to improve outcomes for teachers and pupils in their school.
Mandatory guidance on the criteria that organisations must meet to provide initial teacher training in the 2024 to 2025 academic year.
Information on the 2-year ECT induction and how it replaces the old 1-year newly qualified teacher (NQT) induction, including the early roll out of the reforms.
Find out how misconduct in the teaching profession is regulated, investigated and managed.
Information about the mandatory qualifications special educational needs co-ordinators (SENCOs) must gain within 3 years of taking up their post.
Guidance for schools and local authorities on the teachers’ pension employer contribution grant (TPECG) 2024 for March 2024 to April 2025.
An overview and directory of subject knowledge enhancement courses for lead schools and initial teacher training (ITT) providers.
A course to help school leaders and headteachers develop the knowledge behind expert school leadership and apply it to become an outstanding headteacher.
Routes to QTS for those with non-UK teaching qualifications or experience and UK citizens with teaching experience who live overseas.
An explanation of the education staff wellbeing charter and the benefits of using it.
Prohibiting unsuitable people from managing independent schools, academies and free schools or governing a local-authority-maintained school.
Guidance on how professional conduct hearing panels review teacher misconduct.
Guidance on the teacher misconduct regulatory system and disciplinary procedures.
Guidance for school leaders and induction tutors on setting up and making changes to teacher training, based on the early career framework.
Statutory guidance for schools about employing staff who have been disqualified from providing childcare.
A course to help current or aspiring managers of nurseries develop expertise in leading early years education and staff and organisational management.
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