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scot47 · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 12:46 pm Post subject:

Pleased to help - and to give information for other fortunate souls who are about to escape from Teflania, a land most of us will leave one day.

scot47 · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 2:34 pm Post subject:

The most difficult thing is tolerating winters when it gets dark at 4 in the afternoon. Maybe I should winter in a Southern clime ? Beirut ? Benghazi ?
Bangui ? On second thoughts..............

robinbanks · Joined: 28 Apr 2009 Posts: 41

I am in my 60th year and the time has come for the big heave-ho.They extend year by year in the gulf.My family is back in Derry.Thought I could get a job doing supply teaching but there's nothing doing here.had a good time though...Botswana and Japan with the Council.
is supply work regular in Glasgow.I may have to commute from Derry.How do some of you guys survive?Do you ave pension schemes?GCSE's?

scot47 · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2013 12:24 pm Post subject:

You need registration with the General Teaching Council for Scotland. If you have that, there are supply jobs in Greater Glasgow, ie Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, etc ( Education used to be a Reghional function, now a District Counmcil function.)

You may not get work all year but you could well get it for a few months. Maybe just the odd week here and there, covering for teachers rendered temporarily insane.

I don't work. Live on my meager pension.

I am not sure that "commuting" from Derry to Glasgow is feasible. Maybe if you have an executive Learjet. Weekends in Derry and working days in Glasgow possible, but with supply they sometimes phone you at 7am and ask if you are free that day.

The connection between pension schemes and GCSEs escapes me.

scot47 · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 7:38 pm Post subject: wot ?

I think our inquiry from (London)derry may be confusing GCSEs and PGCE.

To teach in a State School in Scotland you need to be a registered teacher. This normally means having completed a PGCE (Post Graduate Certificate of Educatio), B.Ed or equivalent.

GCSEs have never been used in Scotland outside of a small number of anglicised private schools. School leaving certioficates are explained in detail here :-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Qualifications_Authority

The question about pensions confuses me. Are you asking about contributing to a pension fund ? Scottish teachers pay into a Pension Fund as do their employers. In private EFL Schools that may not be case. All employees and self-employed pay National Insurance Contribuitiuons (ERNICS) which can be used for benefits, including State Retirement Pension.

scot47 · Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 10:05 am Post subject:

1st of March and a few days of sun have lifted my winter gloom. Pleased that I retired when I did ! And that I have a bijou early-Victorian town house at minimal rent ! With modern plumbing and central heating of course !