International NPQs

Choose one of our NPQs and you’ll be joining over 35,000 teachers and school leaders (as of May 2025), who have decided on an Ambition NPQ since they launched in 2021.

Four NPQs
We're welcoming interest in four of our NPQ programmes to those working internationally. Each NPQ follows England’s Department for Education National Professional Qualification frameworks.

Evidence informed curriculum
Each of our NPQ programmes are carefully sequenced using the latest research. You’ll benefit from evidence-informed professional development designed around the key problems you face.

Train to your timetable
Our ‘little and often’ approach means you can engage with our NPQs around your busy timetable, with minimal time needed out of school.

No large project
You’ll sit an ‘open book’ assessment with support via a dedicated, live assessment preparation clinic to help you get the most from your NPQ.

Join our charitable mission
We support teachers and school leaders at every stage of their careers, helping them to keep getting better. We are a charity providing training and professional development based on the most rigorous research and evidence about what really works.

Any profits generated from international NPQs will be dedicated to Ambition’s charitable mission

To register for our NPQs, you must be a current teacher or a school leader.

NPQs are not suitable for active Early Career Teachers.

If you have any questions, email [email protected] and a member of our team will be in touch with next steps.

The National Professional Qualifications follow England’s Department for Education NPQ frameworks.

You can find out more about each NPQ here:

• NPQ for Headship
• NPQ for Senior Leadership
• NPQ for SENCOs
• NPQ for Leading Teaching

Our NPQs are designed so you can engage in live, facilitated sessions alongside modules you can complete at any time.

Content is delivered through blended learning. This includes a mix of real-time, interactive online sessions and self-guided modules you complete in your own time.

The programme includes facilitator-led sessions with your peer group that focus on sense making.

We're welcoming interest in four of our NPQ programmes:

• NPQ for Headship – From £2,340 +VAT*
• NPQ for Senior Leadership – From £1,370 +VAT*
• NPQ for SENCOs - From £1,600 +VAT*
• NPQ for Leading Teaching – From £1,080 +VAT*

*Price may change depending on delivery model.

You’ll sit an ‘open book’ style assessment in which you respond to a short case study.

The assessment window starts at the end of the programme and runs for up to four months (subject to change by the DfE). During this time, you’ll be given an eight-day window to complete the case study.

Participants can sit the assessment twice, if they need to.

You need to complete 90% of the programme and pass the assessment to gain the qualification

We will offer a live clinic in advance of the assessment window to support you.

We are welcoming expressions of interest from schools and those working in schools outside England.

Get in touch today and a member of team will get back to you to discuss your requirements. Enquire here >>

NPQs are not suitable for active Early Career Teachers.

Until you've completed the DfE registration, available from 8 September 2025, your registration will not be confirmed.

If you have any questions, email [email protected] and a member of our team will be in touch with next steps.