I wondered about that too. I had a payscale for last year that seemed quite low, yet I have seen comments refering to a great package and a great school, so am somewhat baffled by it.

Are you talking about an ESL school or an international school?

I looked at the website and it seems to be an ESL school. If thaty is the case you might want to post this on Dave's Cafe ([url]www.eslcafe.com[/url]) in the China forum.

I am going to do my B.Ed. in Vancouver at the end of 2008. After I have completed I was considering going back to the UK for a couple of years to teach (I'm from the UK originally).

Would this be advantageous if I then wanted to move on to an international school, ie. Canadian trained, with English ciriculum experience. I have three year ESL experience in Japan and Taiwan already (although I have no formal ESL qualifiaction).

By then I'll also have dual citizenship (UK/Canada).

Finally, by the time I have done the B.Ed (elementary) and got a couple of years experience in the UK I will be 43 years old. Is this a disadvantage?

Struck off from where? Where was he working and where was his teaching certificate from?

I read on job ads that lots of schools require two years experience. I completely understand why this is. Whilst I want to teach overseas, I want to make sure that I have what most schools require.

I have a question to ask of Canadian teachers. I am doing my teaching qualification in BC specifically for the purposes of applying to international schools. It was/is my intention to do two years post qualification teaching in Canada before applying for international positions, however, given that there is no NQT year in Canada and the likelihood is that I will only actually be a TOC/sub for the first two years and not get a full time job, is there actually any point staying in Canada post-grad?

One Canadian poster on TES suggested that it would be possible to find a reasonable overseas post for my wife and myself without the two years experience(she will also be doing her teaching qualification at the same time as me)? Does TOC actually count as 'real' experience or would we be better going overseas to get full time classroom experience?

Our last concern (but definitely high on our list of priorities) is that by the time we are ready to move overseas our daughter will be ready to start grade one, so we would have to be confident that our daughter was getting a reasonable education in our chosen school.

Both of us have lived outside our respective home countries for ten years plus, we both have four year ESL experience in Japan and Taiwan and we both studied at university in China for a year. I'm not sure if that makes any difference to my question or not.

Thanks in advance

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I've been unable to open thew tes.co.uk website for the last three days. Anybody else having the same problem?

I've read a couple of comments on here that seem to suggest that maybe there are not enough teachers available to international schools. Other posts indicate that it's about equal (there are the right number of teachers to fill openings). Would anybody care to comment?

Also, I assume that schools in certain parts of the world are massively over subscribed, while others find it difficult to recruit. I would like to teach in South East Asia (Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, actually nearly anywhere in SE Asia). I am assuming that most of the jobs in this area would be heavily over subscribed. It that right?