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Tunafosh · Joined: 16 Sep 2010 Posts: 1

Hello, I took my PGDE in Hong Kong- two years PT. The PGDE is for Secondary school English teaching, my BA is in English. I would like to go back to the UK with my family and work in the state schools as a qualified teacher. Is it a simple process? I am in the process of having my credentials verified by NARIC and would love to hear from anyone who has had a similar experience.
I am British.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Of Wales and of the Province of Ulster I know nothing but you should look at the GTC (Scotland) and GTC(England) sites. See below.

http://www.gtce.org.uk/
http://www.gtcs.org.uk/

Nemodot · Joined: 12 Mar 2011 Posts: 53

Hi I saw this while browsing. If the op is still around and for the benefit of others with a non EEC state teaching cert and experience you would be an OTT (overseas trained teacher). As you have a British passport you don't have to worry about work permits but I'm not sure if you can be considered as an OTT though as British.

If you get a job - and a big if with massive oversupply of teachers and lots of unemployed teachers - you have 4 years to gain QTS via a portfolio and courses via a uni mostly on nat curr and UK prof studies. Good teachers take one term. Some take more. You then need to start your NQT year and do one more year of training to be quicker to work in the state sector. So that's two years in effect at least prob best at same school.

Issue is why have an OTT if there are loads of willing pgce grads with training in UK system and later teaching ideas? Having said that we have lots of OTTs in my school but it's a challenging school. Basically you will have to suffer the shock of moving from Singapore which has discipline to a uk school where "terroring" a teacher is normal and no one gets punished. Personally I would stay in Singapore - I am looking for overseas jobs! I guess the op wants UK qts to earn more though. Maybe not best time though with education budget cuts