National College for Teaching and Leadership

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National College for Teaching and Leadership

Agency overview
Formed	2013
Dissolved	2018
Type	Executive agency
Jurisdiction	England
Parent department	Department for Education

The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) (inheritor of the site and functions of the National College for School Leadership (NCSL)) was an executive agency of the Department for Education (a United Kingdom Government Ministry whose responsibilities extended to England only, not Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland). The NCTL had two key aims: to improve academic standards by ensuring there was a well qualified and capable force of teachers in sufficient numbers to meet the needs of the school system and to support and improve schools.

The NCTL also supported the quality and status of the teaching profession by ensuring that teachers were prohibited from teaching in cases of serious professional misconduct,^[1][2] overseeing teachers' inductions, and awarding the Qualified Teacher and Early Years Teacher Status.^[3]

In April 2018 the National College for Teaching and Leadership was discontinued; its functions were absorbed by a new Teaching Regulation Agency for the regulation of the teaching profession, and by the Department for Education for other matters.^[4]