Funding your NPQ
Scholarship funding for Autumn 2025
Awaiting DfE announcement.
Check if you are eligible for the course
You should check the course eligibility criteria before you register. You may meet the funding criteria but not the course eligibility.
You can find out how to check the eligibility of your workplace for Autumn 2025 after the DfE announcement (expected to be late June).
Costs
The table below outlines the costs for NPQs for colleagues not employed in state-funded schools:
| NPQ | UK Price if not eligible for scholarship |
| Leading Teacher Development (NPQLTD) | £899 |
| Leading Behaviour and Culture (NPQLBC) | £899 |
| Leading Teaching (NPQLT) | £899 |
| Leading Literacy (NPQLL) | £899 |
| Leading Primary Maths (NPQLPM) | £899 |
| Senior Leadership (NPQSL) | £1139 |
| Headship (NPQH) | £1949 |
| Early Years Leadership (NPQEYL) | £1139 |
| Special Educational Needs Coordinator (NPQSENCO) | £1332 |
Pricing correct for Spring 2025 cohorts, subject to change for future cohorts.
Apprenticeship Levy for NPQs
Ambition Institute have decided not to accept the Apprenticeship Levy for any of the NPQs. This is because we do not believe it is possible to combine the programme design and delivery of the new NPQ suite with the apprenticeship levy.
The NPQs are designed to be flexible and to work around educators' busy schedules, whereas the apprenticeship levy has extra demands, including 1:1 apprenticeships, tutor meetings and portfolio preparation.
The apprenticeship levy also requires participants to have 20% 'off the job training', which would mean a day a week out of school for the duration of the programme. We think it is undesirable to take teachers and school leaders out of their schools to complete an NPQ at any time but particularly at a time of educational recovery.
Funding restrictions (Spring 2025)
- Funded places have been capped across all programmes and settings.
- You can only receive scholarship funding for each NPQ once.
- If you receive scholarship funding but then withdraw from or fail your programme, you cannot receive scholarship funding for the same NPQ again.
NTSH have been awarded a limited pot of funding for it's schools and funded places will award funding based on DfE eligibility and on the following priority:
1. PP50 Schools (defined by DfE)
2. Northamptonshire Schools
3. Date applied
Additional criteria: SENCO - active SENCO in role