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Rated 5 stars by over 500k educators

The #1 platform to empower education teams

Trusted by 1.2m educators across 17,000 member institutions, The National College consolidates CPD, leadership and governance, compliance and appraisal into one platform for the whole team, helping you go beyond statutory requirements and raise standards.

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Tailored for every team, in every setting

From individual nurseries to multi-academy trusts, we keep education teams up to date with best practice, compliant with statutory policy and continually improving.

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Nursery

Provide high-quality CPD that meets compliance requirements and supports EYFS curriculum training.

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Primary

Deliver CPD that meets compliance, deepens primary pedagogy and connects people development to wider goals.

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Secondary

Combine subject-specific CPD with compliance support and people develop to deliver better student outcomes.

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Independent

Uphold the highest standards across your independent school through one central hub for safeguarding, teaching excellence and ISI compliance.

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Multi-Academy Trusts

Drive trust-wide standards with one hub for CPD, compliance oversight and people development across all settings.

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International

Improve your international school with specialist training, compliance support and clear tracking to lead in every setting.

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Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND)

Access comprehensive SEND training and support across every area of need.

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Everything your team needs to thrive

Increase clarity, embed understanding and inspire your team with our tailored membership: everything you need to manage change and focus on school improvement.

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Personalise learning for every role

Champion development with the world’s largest CPD library. Access accredited training for every role from classroom to leadership, every topic from safeguarding to SEND to curriculum: all in one place. 

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Keep up with policy changes

Turn policy changes into clear actions for your team, track what’s been done and generate the evidence inspectors expect — without updating spreadsheets or chasing updates. 

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Develop your people, not just processes

Connect individual learning pathways to wider organisation priorities, turning appraisal conversations into meaningful development that drive continuous improvement.

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Accelerate impact with secure AI NEW

Empower teams with secure, education-specific AI tools that speed up and enhance everyday tasks, included with every membership.

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Education oversight made easy

Bring your team together around shared goals with clear development pathways and reporting that’s always inspection-ready and easy to act on.

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Stress-free compliance

Mitigate compliance risk with intuitive tools that ensure nothing falls through the cracks.

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Raise the bar across your school

Give your people the knowledge, skills, and assurance they need to do their best work.

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Less admin, more control

Take back control of your workday with automated tasks and instant reporting.

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Insights at your fingertips

Gain holistic oversight to inform stakeholders and support strategic planning.

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Real impact, proven at scale

50,000+

Schools worldwide

500,000

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industry awards

1,200,000

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Testimonials
Testimonials

Trusted by educational institutions worldwide

Discover how educators, leaders and education teams use our platform to raise standards, ensure compliance, and support governance worldwide.

It’s taken away some of the bureaucracy around information gathering. You can instantly run reports, and this has allowed for more effective follow-up, identification of gaps and signposting of resources.”
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Rebecca Lillington

Director of Professional Learning Institute 
Summit Learning Trust

“You get high-quality resources and solutions that are engaging and time efficient... The platform accommodates different working patterns and lifestyles, and it’s very cost effective and good value for money... Overall, it’s a super-efficient and effective way to manage CPD, policies and staff development, all intertwining in one seamless system.”
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Denham Kite

Headteacher
Croft Junior School

“It’s built confidence, it’s built knowledge and developed understanding of areas that staff may not have encountered before they came to work here. It’s given them the appetite to go and do more training and more reading.
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Tania Craig

Executive Headteacher
New Horizons Learning Centre

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