If there are teachers who discover that the country they are travel ling through or are on holiday in, is nice and want to stay a little longer, there is a good change that they will be able to secure a teaching job. Whether they are looking for a temporary teaching job or a permanent education job. The UK is the perfect place for you to stay longer term. The UK employs nearly 500k teachers across all school levels., and being a job sector that is not fashionable with its local people, means that there are a lot of opportunities for foreign workers looking to teach in the UK. Teaching jobs in the UK are numerous, well paid and come with lenient conditions, and therefore provides an easy way for foreigners to enjoy the UK for medium to longer periods.

Added to that, teacher related jobs get preferential treatment at immigration and tax rebates. And even pensions…it has been on the news about the UK public sector strikes hitting the UK at the moment. Obviously this includes teachers, but don’t worry, UK teachers still enjoy fantastic pensions benefits too. Teaching jobs in the UK also come with the advantage of having international ‘credence’, in other words once you can say you have taught at a school in the UK, there is a good chance you will be secure in a job in education back in your home country. Obviously, you will need to find the job in the first instance, and this involves understanding how the UK employment market works first. In the UK, most industry sector, including the education employment sector, rely heavily on Recruitment Agencies/ Employment Agencies to source candidates. Employment agencies are especially relevant for supply teaching, which means temporary education working.

In other words, the supply agency will employ you for the duration of your contract, and you will be placed into a school to teach by your employment agency. Employment agencies in turn rely heavily on job sites to source candidates as one of the most popular strategies used by prospect employees is to conduct a job search on any of the search engines to find next their job. All students or general job hunters use the web to search for jobs. Of course the other route to go is to approach the employment agencies directly and walk in with your CV and introduce yourself. Using the web is a lot faster though and in the time you physically go to one agency in person, you could register with 20 online job sites that will do the same job effectively. Running a job search say on Google is very easy. Simply select the top 20 results that come up and apply for the jobs.