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faithayre

Hi, I live in the UK and want to go and live and work in Brisane (to be with Australian daughter and family, so no visa probs) but don't have a degree. Do Australian schools accept reasonably newly qualified EFL teachers with some experience, with no degree but equivalent lifetime/job qualifications?
Should I gain teaching experience somewhere else first? Any advice greatly appreciated!
Faith

Spinoza · Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 194 Location: Saudi Arabia

YearOfTheDog · Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:22 pm Post subject:

ls650 · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 3484 Location: British Columbia

Er, Australia actually has quite a substantial ESL sector. The trouble is that, like other western countries, there's been a downturn in the market due to the 'war' on terrorism and SARS. Eventually the market will pick up, but for now it's hard for an outsider to break in.

Chris_Crossley

I have met a number of Aussies in China (not just in Wuhan, where I live), and virtually all of them have said, somewhat sadly, that one is better off teaching EFL outside of Australia, not in it.

Most of them are, though, over 45 years old (I even know a 68-year-old Aussie guy teaching here in Wuhan), yet they have commented that one has virtually "no b****y chance" of any real high salaried jobs in education back in Australia if one is in that age bracket, unless they had started in the profession as trainee teachers as soon as they left school or university by their early 20s. However, none of the people I met had been in education since their early 20s, as they had started much later, one as "late" as age 34, as she put it ruefully (she is now 55).

In fact, a brand-new colleague at my school is an Aussie guy in his mid-40s, and he has already echoed those sentiments.