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bazzap1976 · Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 74

a teacher told me that it is possible to do TEFL courses in the Uk for around 50pounds. apparently it is aimed at teachers teaching new immigrants english but it is the same cert u can use around the world. it sounds like pie in the sky to me but she was adament. has anybody else heard anything like this? i can find nowt on the net.....

rusmeister · Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Posts: 867 Location: Russia

Therefore it IS too good to be true.

SueH · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 1022 Location: Northern Italy

Actually I did the CELTA _free_ at a reputable local Further Education college.
That was because I'd been made redundant (well - I volunteered to avoid terminal boredom), and I was in receipt of benefit at the time, and the course was regarded as vocational in order to help re-employment.

So your information may be partly correct, but you have to fulfill certain conditions to qualify.

Justin Trullinger · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject:

If you qualify for assistance as part of a plan to seek employment, I've heard that SueH's situation is still possible. You have to meet a fairly narrow set of conditions, though. (What did you do before, Sue? A friend of mine has recently been turned down, due to not being a "career teacher." Thoughts?)

But getting a thousand pound cert paid for by the government is one thing. A cert open to the public for 50 pounds, though...well, if it sounds to good to be true...you know.

Best,
Justin

SueH · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 1022 Location: Northern Italy

I've already PM'ed Bazza, but what I did before was irrelevant: it was my unemployment and temporary receipt of benefits. (As a systems analyst I was actually a refugee from IT - thank goodness).

It was certainly nothing to do with with being a career teacher.

SueH · Joined: 01 Feb 2003 Posts: 1022 Location: Northern Italy

PS: It was a part-time CELTA, and as stated not by one of the commercial providers - by a local FE (read community) college. Not sure if that is significant.

Best bet is to search all the providers, and then do a search on payment, eligibility for remission of fees etc.

bazzap1976 · Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 74

great stuff guys.big help. women are so much more friendlier in forums!

MELEE · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject:

Friendlier than men in forums, or friendlier than women outside of forums? Laughing

I also got a my intial training really really cheap in the US, I paid I think 25 US dollars for the training materials, it was a joint effort between the University of North Carolina and the county to train up volunteers to teach immigrants, this was back in 1996. I did teach volunteer with UNC teaching conversation to visiting scholar's wives (mostly helping them decifer their children's school lunch menu--chicken finger's anyone?) for six months after that, then I went on to a job in Japan. It wasn't the same as a CELTA, but it turned out to be a pretty good place to start.