Our Programmes

Our Short Courses for School Leaders

Click this link to sign-up for courses we are currently running:

• Leadership in Literacy
• Leadership in Maths
• Middle and Senior Leadership Programme

We are frequently revising and developing our offers in collaboration with both internal and external clients and partners, including schools, colleges, universities and wider educational establishments. The following examples are programmes and courses that we can also offer:

• Train the Trainer
• Understanding your own leadership style 
• Effective Coaching and Mentoring 
• Leadership and Management 
• Team leadership and collaboration  
• Culture shaping and development 
• Leading change and innovation  
• Future of Educational Leadership and Sustainable Leadership 
• Modern Languages Leadership

Our Bespoke Programmes

Our Centre is uniquely placed to build programmes that combine the relevant content/context with generic leadership and management skills. This is why we always do an 'initial needs assessment' with your organisation.

We can bring in specialists from across the University's knowledge base to deliver sector-specific training to complement the high quality training from our leadership experts.

The Centre has worked with public, private and third sector organisations regionally, nationally and internationally including programmes delivered for partners in: China, Cyprus, Germany, Kazakhstan, India and Romania.

The programmes have had a variety of foci including: aspiring leadership programmes; courses for school, college and university leadership teams (generic and subject-specific); international leadership and English language development programmes; working with international policy teams to explore leadership development pathways; and school-centred initial teacher education. 

If you are interested in working with us, register your interest with us. 

National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) for teachers and leaders

NUELC, as a member of NETSP, has delivered NPQs since their inception, both as an independent provider and as part of national consortia - initially as a founding partner of School-Led network, and as of February 2023, through the National Institute of Teaching (NIoT). Newcastle University is a founding partner of the Institute, as well as the assessment partner. 

If you would like to become an assessor, please apply here.

If you would like to apply to be a participant in the next cohort of the NPQ programmes, you can apply here. 

If you are a participant who has passed the assessment for the NPQ, you will be eligible for 20 credits which can be used towards a PGCert qualification. For further information, click here.   

Early Career Framework for ECTs and Mentors

 

NUELC, as a member of NETSP, has been part of the writing and delivery of the UCL Early Career Framework (ECF) programme since the initial pilot in 2020, and is now proud to be delivering the ECF in partnership with the UCL Institute of Education.

Our programme for Early Career Teachers and their mentors is written by practitioners for practitioners in the region.

It is unique among the ECF programmes in following a practitioner inquiry model in the second year, allowing ECTs to focus on the areas of their practice they most want to develop, and preparing them for a lifetime of reflective practice.

Post-graduate Programmes (PGCert, Master’s, EdD)

Our Centre team leads on the leadership aspects of the academic programmes offered by the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences.

For more information see: 

• Educational Leadership PGCert
• Full-time MA Education: International Perspectives 
• Doctor of Education (EdD) programme
• Part-time Practitioner Enquiry (Leadership) MEd

 All programmes have two entry dates (September and January).  

Register your interest

If you are interested in any of these areas, then please register your interest with us.