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[LoPresto]

He's probably "jamming" with his band.

[the_thinker]

[Chris_Crossley]

If one did have a DELTA (or the Trinity Diploma in TESOL) and then discovered that even that was not enough for somebody's purposes (one could cynically say that the "somebody" has both the Diploma and the MA), one might feel obliged to undertake a master's degree simply because "somebody" wanted it as opposed to wanting to do one for one's own continuing professional development (CPD).

I don't think any accreditation body would necessarily demand that people possess both of these types of TESOL qualification, lest it be cynically accused of being �litist, yet my experience, as a jobseeker, was with the three tutors who wanted candidates to have a DELTA (and they made this clear to me in their post-interview e-mail), not with any accreditation body, in spite of the fact that I had by then accumulated two master's degrees in education, one of which included a TESOL module.

Another university (one in Scotland) advertised for a summer EAP pre-sessional post and I made it absolutely clear that I do not have the Diploma. Nevertheless, I was actually invited to an interview, this time a telephone one, thankfully. However, just before it was due to take place, I received word that the start of Term 1 of the new academic year at my full-time employer in China had been inexplicably moved up by a fortnight, so that meant that, unfortunately, I could not take any job even if it had been offered to me.

This was rather a nuisance, but at least it showed me that not everybody responsible for recruiting EAP tutors at universities in the UK seems to insist that candidate possess a Diploma!