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patchwork
Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 55 Location: in transit
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 1:47 pm Post subject: countries that don't require a BA |
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Can anyone list me some countries where I don't need a BA?
I will have a Trinity cert and I also have a college degree. I'm Canadian born so I'll be travelling with a Canadian passport.
thanks for the help. |
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ls650

Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 2:22 pm Post subject: Re: countries that don't require a BA |
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patchwork wrote: |
Can anyone list me some countries where I don't need a BA? I will have a Trinity cert and I also have a college degree. I'm Canadian |
Indonesia and China, no problems.
I'm puzzled by one thing: how can you have a college degree but NOT a BA? Do you have a two-year diploma (ie. what American colleges call an "associate degree")?  |
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patchwork
Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 55 Location: in transit
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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Yes I would assume it counts as an Associate Degree.
School in Quebec is unique to the rest of the world |
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nolefan

Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 1458 Location: on the run
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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khmerit has not been around in a while so I will recommend Cambodia on his behalf |
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The Great Wall of Whiner

Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 4946 Location: Blabbing
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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In Canada, we usually call university "university", and college, well, um, "college". |
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TEAM_PAPUA

Joined: 24 May 2004 Posts: 1679 Location: HOLE
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:02 pm Post subject: * |
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BA & CELTA is now the form for teaching overseas.
Get a few years behind you and you'll have the decent jobs kicking your email to death.
with nothing, you can still do MacDonalds (sorry I mean EF)
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Glenski

Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 1:29 am Post subject: |
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It's not as simple as asking which countries require the degree.
Immigration in Japan, for example, wants you to have a bachelor's degree for the work visa, but you can also get it if you have several years of experience.
You don't need a degree to have a spouse visa, dependent visa, working holiday visa, or student visa, and you can teach on all of them. Not FT in some cases.
What employers want, however, will vary. Some prefer the degree and visa, while others accept people with the visa and no degree.
It also depends on what kind of teaching you are interested in. Conversation schools, high schools, international schools, universities, etc. |
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patchwork
Joined: 23 Aug 2004 Posts: 55 Location: in transit
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 3:00 am Post subject: |
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The Great Wall of Whiner wrote: |
In Canada, we usually call university "university", and college, well, um, "college". |
In Quebec, we don't have college, we have CEGEP. And from CEGEP you get a DEC (Diplome d'Etude Collegiale). It's like college but under a different name they are two year programs, or three year technical programs, such as nursing, film editing, computers, etc... people here do 5 years high school, 2 years CEGEP, and then 3 years university.
CEGEP is free so it offers people who don't have money the chance to get an education beyond high school, and for them to specialize a little and see if they like something enough to study it in university. Or, if you know you want to do a certain job, you take a technical program for 3 years and then you can work, or go to school. |
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The Great Wall of Whiner

Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 4946 Location: Blabbing
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 4:59 am Post subject: |
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Glenski is right.
I have friends teaching in Korea, Taiwan, China, India, Thailand, and Japan who do not have their degree.
It's what you know, not what paper you have. |
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beachlovr9
Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 7 Location: Texan living in Australia
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Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 11:07 pm Post subject: Teaching without BA |
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You can teach in the Czech Republic without a BA, and sometimes without a TEFL Certificate. Although I would recommend you gain your certification as you will be more respected and prepared with it.
cheers
Michelle Everett |
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