secondary school teaching uk

bobsnob

Hey everyone:D. Im in my final year of arts doing geography and English. I wanna head over to the uk to become a qualified secondary school teacher.

How do I go about doing this? Very confused, looked up everywhere.

Also I heard if you do it in uk, you get paid??

Where do I apply etc?

Any advice is appreciated.

Really would like to go to London.. do NOT want to stay in Ireland. Thanks

Inspector Coptoor

You're looking to do the PGCE in education.

Look up the website www.gttr.ac.uk

It's the graduate teacher training website.

You'll need to apply, go over for an interview and hopefully get a place.

You don't get "paid" as such, the UK government award a bursary, which goes into your account every month.

This depends on your subject, ie, when I did it, Science teachers got £750 a month, whereas PE teachers got £350, due to the demand for science a s oversupply of PE.

The fees are more expensive now, and the bursary is a lot less than it was.

However, I still think this is your best course of action as the PGCE in the UK is a one year course, the PGDE here is now 2 years and is a complete rip off at about €10,000.

Just be aware that you can't go over there for a year and come straight back home, once you attain newly qualified teacher status, youust remain working in the country you qualified in for a minimum of one year in order to attain qualified teacher status.

Hope this helps.

Miss Lockhart

What about the new TC requirement that, for those commencing a qualification abroad from Sept 2014, postgraduate teacher training must be 120 ECTS credits? UK PGCE won't fulfil that requirement.

Inspector Coptoor

I wasnt aware of that.

Jaysis but they are some dickh€ads putting that in there to try to prevent a mass exodus to the UK of the cash cow that is the PGDE here in Ireland.

Hopefully the TC goes the way of the UK one, wound down into oblivion,

Useless Quango