Education Scotland continues to enhance its professional learning service to better support educators across the country. As we look ahead to the 2025/26 academic session, we’re excited to share a range of opportunities designed to support you and your colleagues to make informed decisions about your professional learning.
Click here for PowerPoint slide which outlines:
- Upcoming professional learning programmes opening for applications in 2025/26
- Open access resources available anytime to support flexible learning
- Activities for individuals and groups that offer recognition and a record of completion
- Guidance on how to find events via the Education Scotland website
These slides are a helpful starting point, but they don’t represent the full scope of our professional learning offer. For more details, we encourage you to click here to explore the Education Scotland website.
We’d be grateful if you could share this resource with your colleagues and teams to help them plan their learning journey for the year ahead. The application window for our Leadership Professional Learning programmes will be open from 18th August until 5th September, so please look out for further information on this in the coming days.
For our facilitated leadership professional learning, applications for the following programmes will go live at 9am on Monday 18 August and will close at 11.45pm on Friday 05 September. Application forms will be available under the ‘How do I apply?’ section of each page by 9am on Monday 18 August. It is important to note that demand for places on our facilitated programmes is high, and we may need to close application forms ahead of the published close date.
Building Racial Literacy – click here to find out more about this programme
Aspiring to Middle Leadership (facilitated cohort) – click here to find out more about this programme
Leading Professional Learning – click here to find out more about this programme
Leading the How of Change – click here to find out more about this programme
For our self-directed professional learning, we are again running online introductory sessions in order to support users to engage with the learning.
Aspiring to Middle Leadership – click here to learn more about this self-directed learning, and register for the introductory session
Middle Leaders Leading Change – click here to learn more about this self-directed learning, and register for the introductory session
Enquiry in Education – click here to learn more about this self-directed learning, and register for an introductory session
Coaching in Education – click here to learn more about this self-directed learning, and register for an introductory session
Lastly, don’t forget that you can also create a free account on our website which gives you access to our free Professional Learning Activities (PLAs) and Professional Learning Resources. And you can now download a certificate when you complete each PLA which can be kept as a log of your professional learning in 25/26. Click here to open the website and click the Register button to create a new account, or select Log in to access your existing account.
We look forward to supporting you with your professional learning this year.
Kind regards
Professional Learning and Leadership Team, Education Scotland
