The Department of Education will continue to support programmes which are successful in developing leaders in schools. Through the new Teaching Schools network, we expect the National College to enable many more clusters of schools to offer their own high quality ‘middle leader’ (e.g. heads of department or heads of year) development programmes. This will be significantly more cost effective than offering centralised programmes, and builds on a successful pilot.
2.42 We will also support third sector organisations to expand the availability of their programmes. For example, Future Leaders is a three-year programme which is designed to support highly talented teachers to progress quickly to leadership positions in challenging schools. Teaching Leaders is a two-year programme designed to support the development of outstanding subject or middle leaders in challenging schools. We will continue to support both programmes. The Future Leaders programme will place 50–100 talented teachers a year in challenging urban secondary schools across the country, and we will expand the pilot of the Teaching Leaders programme beyond London, to develop 75 outstanding subject/middle leaders each year.
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