ASCL National Professional Qualification for Executive Leadership (NPQEL)

Choosing ASCL for your NPQEL provides you with quality assured leadership delivery, coupled with local expertise and knowledge to ensure that learning fits your regional context.

This first-rate executive leadership programme has been developed by ASCL working with four well-established and highly regarded teaching school alliances.

Through a blended delivery model, the programme will cover key topics on a modular basis over an 18 month period, culminating in the two assessments which lead to the qualification. The programme consists of a combination of:

• local face-to-face development days
• national training events
• online learning materials
• personalised executive coaching or mentoring sessions
• webinars
• advice and guidance on the selection of assessment projects
• 360o professional reviews at the start and end of the programme

The programme is delivered by serving, experienced Executive Heads/CEOs and the ASCL Specialist team, and is supported by research evidence from the Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education (CUREE).

The programme covers all of the specified curriculum content specified for NPQEL through ten modules supplemented by additional information that existing executive leaders consider essential to successfully carry out the role.
 

• School improvement strategy across the MAT
• Business development, growth and sustainability
• Ethical Leadership and change management
• MAT governance and risk management
• Growing and deploying people
• Curriculum excellence across the MAT
• Data and accountability across the MAT
• Reputation, brand management and marketing
• Safeguarding and health and safety across the MAT
• Horizon scanning and influencing

Fees are non-refundable once enrolment has been confirmed.

Our performance against nationally set NPQ metrics:

Metric 1: Recruitment of target number of participants.
Providers recruit at least 100% of their target number of participants for each year and for each NPQ offered.

Qualification	2017/18			2018/19			2019/20
	Target	Actual	% Target	Target	Actual	% Target	Target	Actual	% Target
NPQ for Executive Leadership (NPQEL)	80	115	143.75%	80	49	61.25%	80	53	66.25%

Metric 2: Target percentage recruited from schools where 30% or more are eligible for FSM.
Providers ensure that their allocated target of all those recruited are from schools where 30% or more pupils are known to be eligible for Free School Meals, for each NPQ level offered.
 

Qualification	2017/18			2018/19			2019/20
	Target	Actual	% Target	Target	Actual	% Target	Target	Actual	% Target
NPQ for Executive Leadership (NPQEL)		11% (3)		13% (6)	16% (8)	125.59%	15% (8)	15% (8)	100.63%

Metric 3: Target percentage recruited from non-White British groups.
Providers ensure that their allocated target of all those recruited are from non-white British groups, for each NPQ level offered.
 

Qualification	2017/18			2018/19			2019/20
	Target	Actual	% Target	Target	Actual	% Target	Target	Actual	% Target
NPQ for Executive Leadership (NPQEL)	2% (2)	10% (11)	478.26%	5% (2)	10% (5)	204.08%	7% (4)	15% (8)	215.63%

Metric 4: Percentage of participants that present for final assessment within 18 months*.
Providers ensure that at least 90% of participants present for final assessment within 18 months of formally commencing the programme.

*Due to the changes necessary following the Covid-19 outbreak and subsequent communications, participants embarking on an NPQ from 1 July 2018 have been granted 24 months from their starting date to submit for final assessment. This is shown in the Metric 4 calculation.
 

Qualification	2017/18			2018/19			2019/20
	Presented	Within 18m	% of Presented	Presented	Within 18m	% of Presented	Presented	Within 18m	% of Presented
NPQ for Executive Leadership (NPQEL)	32	14	43.75%	7	7	100%	2	2	100%

Some 2017/18 participants are still in the process of submitting or waiting for results and both 2018/19 and 2019/20 participants are within the 24 month window.

Metric 5: Assessment Accuracy
Providers ensure a 95% accuracy level for all their final assessments.
 

Qualification	2017/18			2018/19			2019/20
	Assessment Count	QAA Moderation	Accuracy %	Assessment Count	QAA Moderation	Accuracy %	Assessment Count	QAA Moderation	Accuracy %
NPQ for Executive Leadership (NPQEL)	70	11% (8)	100%	15	40% (6)	100%	4	50% (2)	100%

Metric 6: Participant Feedback
Providers ensure that the aggregated mean rating across all participant feedback received is at least 6 out of 10.
No data is available at this time

Metric 7: Rates of achievement and retention (including by group)
Providers ensure that there is no significant difference in retention and achievement rates between different groups, for example, groups with protected characteristics or leaders from schools with different levels of performance.

2017/18:

Qualification	Retention			Deferrals			Achievement
	Started	Withdrawn	Retention %	Started	Deferred	Deferred %	Submitted	Passed	Achieved %
NPQ for Executive Leadership (NPQEL)	115	33	71.3%	115	46	40%	32	32	100%

2018/19:

Qualification	Retention			Deferrals			Achievement
	Started	Withdrawn	Retention %	Started	Deferred	Deferred %	Submitted	Passed	Achieved %
NPQ for Executive Leadership (NPQEL)	55	16	70.91%	55	5	9.09%	7	7	100%

 
2019/20:

Qualification	Retention			Deferrals			Achievement
	Started	Withdrawn	Retention %	Started	Deferred	Deferred %	Submitted	Passed	Achieved %
NPQ for Executive Leadership (NPQEL)	73	4	94.52%	73	3	4.11%	2	2	100%

Candidates from all cohorts are still in the process of submitting or waiting for results