Sector overview

• Overview of the education sector

Typical job profiles

• Teacher of English as a Foreign Language

Useful online resources

• British Council - types of qualifications, careers, and vacancies
• Cactus - information and advice, courses, jobs
• Eslbase About TEFL, courses, jobs, directory of English language schools
• INTESOL Teach English Abroad - getting started teaching English
• Love TEFL Jobs - jobs board and practical information

Training

Internationally recognised qualifications

• Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (CELTA)
• Trinity College London, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

Course providers in Glasgow

• Glasgow Clyde College Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA)
• The TEFL Org
• live language

Other course providers / course-search websites

• DoTEFL - international Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) course directory
• International House London
• International House Newcastle
• Eslbase
• UK-TEFL
• St George International School in London
• Active Language - Trinity Diploma course in Cadiz
• TEFL Toulouse - TEFL course in Toulouse

Job sites and specialist recruiters

• Ambassador Year in China - non-profit programme
• Bell International
• British Council
• Cactus
• Chatteris Educational Foundation (Hong Kong)
• EF (English First)
• English Programme in Korea (EPIK)
• Eslbase
• Flying Cows
• Guardianjobs
• INTESOL
• International House World Organisation
• i-to-i
• Nova (Japan)
• Saxoncourt
• Taiwan Foreign English Teacher Programme
• TEFL.com

Professional bodies

• British Association of Lecturers in English for Academic Purposes
• International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
• Scottish Association for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language