Irish Primary Teachers Abroad

brónaim cád??

Hi all,

I know that there are a lots of threads on here but some of the are years old so I wanted fresh views.

It'd be great if you have experience of this yourself
I am an NQT (just finished in June, British trained). I took a job in Kuwait because there was nothing where I was in England and I could go though all the hoops and looks of registering with the Teaching Council, getting degrees attested, SCG/OCG, Gaeltacht courses, Catholic certs and whatever else just to not get a job.

I just want to know where have Irish teachers gone to teach and are actually enjoying it? Kuwait is far to conserative for me. It's fine until June because the money is good but I certainly will not be renewing for a second year! I know that many countries in the Middle East are a lot more liberal than here like in the UAE.

I've also been thinking that South America would be pretty good and lots of people seem to be talking about China at the minute.

There we go, rant over. Let me know if you or a friend has positive experince of teaching around the globe. Cheers

Kathnora

You will get more responses to your request if you register with the Message Board on educationposts.ie as there are many members there currently teaching abroad.

brónaim cád??

Cheers. I just tried to register but it says you can't from outside the Republic.

j.l

brónaim cád?? wrote: »

Cheers. I just tried to register but it says you can't from outside the Republic.

They've been getting a lot of spam registrations recently so they've disabled it from outside the Republic. Just send them an e-mail explaining you're working abroad and they should have no problem registering you.

Yenwod

A friend of mine, who trained in Britain, works in Cairo at http://www.mescairo.com/mesnew/index.asp and loves it. Been there for 5 or so years now. Seems to be a great expat community over there and the wages are tax-free!