Learn more about the NEAS Manager Learning Courses
These modules offer practical, evidence-informed professional learning for ELT managers and academic leaders who want to strengthen decision-making, leadership capability, and quality assurance practice in a changing sector. Each module includes short video lessons, applied scenarios, and reflective tasks, enabling managers to examine real-world challenges, build robust systems, and lead with confidence across compliance, people, and strategy. Together, the modules support informed, ethical leadership and foster a shared culture of quality and continuous improvement within ELT organisations.
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Complete all the lessons in each Stage to earn a badge. The badge will be added to your profile on the NEAS Listing. Get 2 badges to gain a Bronze listing. Get 4 badges to gain Silver listing. 6 badges AND qualification endorsement are required to get a Gold listing.
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Earn CPD points for each NEAS PD course that you complete. Earn 10 CPD points for Teacher or Manager Learning courses. Earn 2 CPD points for joining a NEAS Webinar. Earn 30 CPD Points for completing a NEAS Professional Learning Course. If you have CPD points from another organisation, you can have them added to your NEAS CPD points total by clicking here.
Stage 1: Foundations of ELT Management & Compliance
This badge builds a shared understanding of how quality, compliance, and governance operate in ELT and why institutions are required to behave as they do. Managers explore the regulatory logic underpinning the NEAS Quality Areas, organisational accountability, and student protection frameworks, with opportunities to engage more deeply with role-specific contexts. Policy and standards are linked to real operational decisions to support reflective, ethical, and evidence-informed leadership.
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Stage 2: Operational Systems & Delivery
This badge focuses on how ELT organisations function in practice, translating quality and compliance principles into effective operational systems. Managers examine core delivery processes, administrative structures, and modes of provision, including online delivery, to ensure programs are implemented consistently and sustainably. Optional modules allow managers to explore the use of education agents where relevant to their organisational context.
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Stage 3: Program Design, Risk, and Governance
This badge focuses on the systems and decision-making structures that underpin sustainable, high-quality ELT provision. Managers explore how program design, risk management, and governance frameworks interact to support compliant, ethical, and resilient organisations. Emphasis is placed on aligning strategic intent with operational practice, anticipating and managing risk, and using governance processes to support continuous improvement and long-term organisational effectiveness.
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Stage 4: Leadership, People, and Culture
This badge focuses on the people, leadership, and cultural dimensions that underpin quality and sustainability in English language education. Managers explore approaches to leadership, staff engagement, wellbeing, and professional growth, examining how organisational culture shapes practice, retention, and performance. The badge links leadership theory to real workplace contexts, supporting reflective, inclusive, and ethical leadership that fosters trust, capability, and continuous improvement across ELT organisations.
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Stage 5: Professional Learning, Innovation & Capability Building
This Badge focuses on building individual and organisational capability through purposeful professional learning, innovation, and reflective practice. Managers explore how professional development, research-informed practice, and innovation can be embedded into everyday operations to strengthen teaching quality, leadership capacity, and organisational resilience. Emphasis is placed on developing cultures of learning that support continuous improvement, adaptability, and sustainable growth in evolving ELT contexts.
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Stage 6: Digital, Change & Future-Focused Leadership
This badge focuses on leading ELT organisations through ongoing digital transformation, sector change, and future uncertainty. Managers explore how digital systems, emerging technologies, and changing delivery models impact teaching, operations, and student experience. The badge emphasises adaptive leadership, change management, and strategic foresight, supporting leaders to respond thoughtfully to disruption, guide teams through change, and position their organisations for sustainable, future-focused practice in evolving ELT contexts.
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Stage 7: Research, Reflection & Professional Identity
Research, Reflection & Professional Identity focuses on strengthening evidence-informed practice through critical reflection and engagement with research. This stage supports educators and leaders to reflect on their assumptions, use data and research to inform decisions, and articulate a professional identity aligned with ethical, regulatory, and pedagogical expectations. Emphasis is placed on reflective practice as a driver of quality, improvement, and professional growth within ELT organisations.
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