Open up the globe as your workplace

Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) can open up a whole world of opportunities.

Paid and voluntary positions are available all over the globe, from Central and South America to South East Asia and everywhere in between teaching children, teenagers or business executives.

Rent-free accommodation, flight reimbursement and visa sponsorship are just some of the great benefits that can accompany employment packages.

Thousands of people train with TEFL Org UK, which organises courses and acts as a contact for jobs, every year and go on to work in far-flung lands or countries closer to home.

Gap year students and recent graduates, those looking for a change of career or those who are retired can find a job to suit them.

There are varying short-term and long-term contracts in schools, language institutions and camps available yearround.

TEFL Org UK runs flexible training courses throughout the UK and Ireland, with various online courses too, allowing you to gain a qualification around your own individual schedule.

You’ll get up to six months to work through your course and a personally assigned tutor will guide you through your online learning. No previous teaching experience or qualifications are required.

Training with TEFL Org UK will give you the skills, knowledge and confidence to teach English abroad, boost your CV, see the world and become immersed in new and exciting cultures.

Abigael Gough, originally from Dundee, started her TEFL career in China.

She said: “Coming to China to live and work was certainly a culture shock but that is what I craved and the main reason why I chose to come to this country.”

She has now finished teaching in China and has recently located to New Zealand, where she managed to secure more TEFL work.

“I am so happy about doing my TEFL qualification all that time ago,” she added. “The opportunities I have had since then are still coming.”

Abigael Gough in China, where she taught English as a foreign language.