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Download your teaching certificates and check details of your training and induction.
Professional development courses for teachers and leaders to develop skills, progress careers and improve school outcomes.
Find out how to obtain qualified teacher status (QTS) to teach in a maintained school or non-maintained special school in England.
Find out if you’re eligible for scholarship funding that will pay for your NPQ course fees.
A framework to support trainee and early career teacher development.
What schools need to do to set up and manage training, support, assessment and changing circumstances for the early career teacher entitlement (ECTE).
The mandatory course for special educational needs co-ordinators to learn how to effectively perform the SENCO role.
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.
Find resources to help you develop a whole school or college approach to mental health and wellbeing.
Early career teacher entitlement (ECTE) eligibility criteria and DfE grant funding for schools, early career teachers and mentors.
How some overseas trained teachers can apply for qualified teacher status (QTS), using the apply for QTS in England service.
A course to help teachers and school leaders develop leadership knowledge and expertise to improve outcomes for teachers and pupils in their school.
Guidance for inspectors and providers on inspecting ITE provision in England under the renewed education inspection framework, available for use from January 2026.
Guidance for appropriate bodies, headteachers, school staff and governing bodies.
A course to help teachers learn how to lead the teaching and learning of a subject, year group or phase.
A course to help school leaders and headteachers develop the knowledge behind expert school leadership and apply it to become an outstanding headteacher.
Mandatory guidance on the criteria that organisations must meet to provide initial teacher training in the 2024 to 2025 academic year.
A course to help teachers learn how to create a culture of good behaviour and high expectations in which staff and pupils thrive.
A framework to support trainee teacher development, designed with an expert advisory group.
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