National College of Education have a great range of comprehensive apprenticeship programmes for schools.
The NCE offers incredible, fully funded Leadership, Management and Classroom Support apprenticeships to the school sector.
We work with 2,000 schools in England across 120 LAs and over 650 MATs, helping schools of all sizes utilise their apprenticeship levy and create a remarkable professional development offer that supports retention, recruitment and wellbeing.
Many of our Leadership programmes offer a funded Masters pathway upon completion, and our Advanced Skills Teaching Assistant Programme provides a specialist pathway in the area most needed in your school.
Whether you want to upskill your entire cohort of TAs, succession plan for your middle leaders, or get your SLT working towards an improvement project dedicated to your school, we'd love to be able to help.
We are a strategic partner to schools, trusts and LAs, helping in these 3 key areas:
- Financial Support (unlocking your apprenticeship levy)
Many schools don't know that it's use it or lose it! How much could you be saving if CPD wasn't coming out of your budget?
- Leadership and Management Development
We have a fully funded programme for leaders at any stage, with two of our programmes offering a Free Masters Pathway. These programmes draw from leading business principles and practises, offering a more comprehensive view of modern leadership than traditional leadership courses in Education.
- Strengthening Classroom Support
We have fully funded programmes for classroom support at all levels and phases, from early years, to SEND. These deeply practical programmes keep your support teams in the classroom, upskilling them for free whilst improving pupil outcomes.
Our programmes are helping our schools across retention, recruitment, succession planning and staff wellbeing.
'I genuinely think the National College of Education L7 Apprenticeship is the best professional learning I've done in my career. If you're keen to broaden your knowledge then go for it!' - Deputy Headteacher
“Challenging, enlightening and empowering, just three ways that I would describe my journey with the NCE. The course has had a profound effect on how I work. I am now strategic, confident in my depth of understanding of leadership and management and continuously looking to improve what I do in order to impact positively on those I work with." - Headteacher