One of the government’s lead providers of national professional qualifications (NPQs) has said it will drop out of the scheme after it was significantly scaled back.
The Education Development Trust reached the “regrettable conclusion” after the Department for Education announced its offer of free NPQs for all schools will be replaced by a less generous scheme from Autumn.
The department offered £184 million for schools to do NPQs for free as part of its Covid recovery plan.
But from Autumn, only teachers and leaders in the top half of schools with the most youngsters on pupil premium will be eligible for funded NPQs.
EDT will not bid to deliver NPQs for the Autumn 2024 and Spring 2025 cohorts.
