Nurturing Today’s Young People, Inspiring Tomorrow’s Leaders
WELCOME TO STAR INSTITUTE
Star Institute is the learning and development centre for Star Academies, one of the UK’s leading education providers. Established to support and promote the improvement of schools nationally and beyond, we aim to build a world-class education workforce.
Star Institute is designated as a National Teaching School, licensed to deliver DfE National Professional Qualifications for Leadership and an accredited provider of Initial Teacher Training. Our vision is to nurture today’s young people and inspire tomorrow’s leaders. We do this by investing in the next generation of the school workforce. We provide teacher education, professional development and school improvement support for schools, Multi-Academy Trusts and Local Authority partners.
Training with and working alongside Star Institute, you will benefit from access to leading practitioners, high quality research and some of the best schools in the country. Our research, training and development programmes are led by school leaders and designed to support the continual development of school staff and governors so that each individual can play their full part in delivering educational excellence.
TEACH LIKE A STAR
A great teacher has the ability to inspire, excite and motivate pupils to go as far as their talent and their hard work will allow. Our Star Teachers programme offers three pathways into a career in teaching.
LEAD LIKE A STAR
School leadership is second only to teaching in its impact on student outcomes. Star Institute offers a suite of national programmes designed to nurture leadership capacity and support leaders at every stage of their growth and development.
TESTIMONIALS
“The Star Teachers ITT programme offers trainees the utmost support and the opportunity to observe outstanding teaching in ‘good’ and ‘outstanding’ schools. With personalised support from amazing mentors, I have developed my own teaching practice and progressed to delivering outstanding lessons. I would recommend this programme 100% to anyone considering teacher training.”
“The course facilitators were very adept at placing the theory being delivered into practical, real-life situations. They effectively used their own school leadership experiences to ensure we understood that what we were learning could benefit us within our school.”
“We feel wholly supported by Star Institute’s Appropriate Body Service. The Quality Assurance visit provided the Induction Tutor with valuable feedback as to what we can do to further support our NQTs. The NQTs also found it useful and valued the advice the Quality Assurer gave them on how to evidence the Teacher Standards.”
“This is a highly reflective course delivered by competent and interesting leaders who inspire and motivate me to want to improve my skills in leadership. One of the most worthwhile and inspiring courses I have been on that I know has already had an impact on me as a middle leader in current role.”
STAR TRAINEE TEACHERS
secured NQT post
NQTs
passed their Induction with Star
LEADERS
completed NPQs with Star
SCHOOLS
partnered with Star