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[Zero]

The (ADTE(E)LLS) for teaching ESOL in FE colleges in the UK would be in addition to the OP's CELTA, IGCSE-ESL, IB English B, IELTS, FCE and CAE?

[Perilla]

I'd say the UK should be avoided if possible - generally awful for TEFL. I recommend the following thread from the UK forum:

"Why TEFL in the UK?" http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?t=86963

Here's an amusing extract:

The people I met who worked in the industry in the UK were generally one or more of the following:

#1) - in a TEFL rut (living paycheque to paycheque, living in rented accomodation, unable to find the funds to get out of their situation and getting older by the day).

#2) - hopelessly lacking in common sense, unable to do simple everyday tasks but excellent in the classroom. Thus good at job, but unable to work out how to apply for jobs overseas, or likely to be even more useless at everything on foreign shores.

#3) - Young and high on the attention from all the good looking young students (very rapidly destined to become #1) within 6-7 years).

#4) - A middle-aged housewife with a husband who earns a minimum of triple her salary.

#5) - A spinster with lots of cats and an allotment. Slightly mad.

#6) - A failed university professor who insists on being called Dr. (though nobody can find anything he's published on the internet). He has convinced himself that the language school is a university.

#7) - A gay man in early middle age, has been using TEFL for the last ten-years as a stop-gap, before he gets back into acting / writing / dance etc etc

# - A Christian desperate to either convert everyone who studies at the school, and / or find someone to marry him / her so they can have sex.

#9) - People with a drink problem.

#10) - People who stayed in Thailand too long.