How to get QTS in UK as a Filipino?
Posted by Ok_Let_893@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 14 comments
Hi! I am writing this on behalf of my wife. We are both in UK. She is a filipino has masters degree in Master of arts in English literature and has previous experience teaching abroad. She was a part of JET program (japan exchang teacher) for 3 years. She is currently employed as a teaching assistant?
Anyone know the steps on how to qualify to become a teacher in the UK?
She is not a Permanent resident so she can’t do student loan yet.
Any Filipinos who are teacher’s here or received QTS?
jammiedodgermonster@reddit
She needs to check to what extent her qualifications transfer to the UK. My old neighbour was Thai, had taught primary school in Thailand and then became a professor of primary education at a Thai university; she could get nothing but a voluntary teaching assistant job. For whatever reason, her qualifications did not translate to teaching in the UK and she would have had to do a degree to be able to teach here.
Ok_Let_893@reddit (OP)
This is what happened to she was a professor in the Philippines and qualified teacher in Japan but ended up as a teaching assistant in the UK.
LegendaryOrangeEater@reddit
did it worked? did she made it as a ta in uk?
Ok_Let_893@reddit (OP)
Yes! As a TA. Not a qualified teacher tho. We are still saving money for it as it cost 25k QTS for people living overseas
Summer02122024@reddit
Hi! Can you please tell me what happened to your wife now? I am also a teacher in the Philippines and I wanted to work here in UK as a teacher. Unfortunately, based on what I’ve read we are only qualified for teaching assistant. Did your wife applied for QTS?
FluffyBluebird1592@reddit
If she doesn’t have visa, or a British passport, it gets tricky to work in the UK. Most schools even after obtaining QTS do not sponsor for visa - but what I’m saying might be another story, just wanted to remind you
Voodoopulse@reddit
She needs to check with the teaching regulation authority to see if her qualification is acceptable, Japan is on the list but I'm not sure if that qualification is acceptable. Is she a TA at the moment?
dbxp@reddit
Jet doesn't require a teaching qualification
Ok_Let_893@reddit (OP)
Yes she is! She graduated in the Philippines tho Bachelors degree and MA.
Voodoopulse@reddit
In the U.K.? Then I'd get signed on with some supply agencies
ichirin-no-hana@reddit
If you go on the get into teaching website you could use one of the links on there to talk to someone
get into teaching
Mental_Body_5496@reddit
Routes to qualified teacher status (QTS) for teachers and those with teaching experience outside the UK - GOV.UK https://share.google/olStXRgDzO9aHwAfz
Plus if she taught older teenagers/adults in Japan and is in a secondary school in uk this might be an option:
QTLS - Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills | Society for Education and Training https://share.google/nZu3v38GOUUE0SVFo
Gulbasaur@reddit
An MA in English Literature is not a teaching qualification.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/apply-for-qualified-teacher-status-qts-if-you-teach-outside-the-uk/ has the core information.
She could got down the Assessment Only route, although she'd need two years of teaching experience across two schools.
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