Awaiting editorial review: Early-career induction guidance summarises current UK arrangements and is awaiting founder editorial review before launch.
How schools abroad read your PGCE
Schools look at three things: the phase and subject your PGCE covers, whether it carries QTS, and the classroom experience you have built since. A PGCE in a shortage subject with two or more years of teaching behind it is a strong application almost anywhere in the region.
If your PGCE was awarded without QTS, say so clearly at application stage. Some schools accept it, some require QTS for licensing reasons, and the honest answer saves everyone time.
- Subject and phase specified on the certificate
- Whether QTS was awarded, and when
- Post-qualification experience, including any ECT years completed
- Examination-board experience where you have taught GCSE or A Level
Moving abroad early in your career
Many schools prefer teachers who have completed their early-career induction in the UK before moving. Statutory ECT induction cannot normally be completed in a school outside England unless that school has an approved arrangement, so check your position with your appropriate body before accepting an overseas post.
If you are mid-induction, talk to us first. There are sensible sequencing options, and getting this wrong is difficult to unpick later.
Understanding a teaching package in an international post
Packages are not directly comparable to a UK salary, because a large part of the value sits outside the monthly figure. Rather than quoting numbers we cannot evidence for every school, we set out what to compare so you can judge an offer properly.
Once recruitment opens, we will share the confirmed package details for each vacancy with you before you interview.
- Monthly salary and whether local income tax applies
- Accommodation: provided, an allowance, or neither
- Flights: joining, annual and end-of-contract
- Medical insurance, and whether dependants are covered
- Tuition support for your own children, and how many places
- End-of-service gratuity and contract length
- Utilities, transport and any relocation allowance
Safer recruitment and safeguarding
Every candidate we put forward will be subject to safer-recruitment checks: identity, qualification verification, employment history, references and an enhanced DBS check. Reputable international schools apply the same standards as UK schools, and we will not put a candidate forward without them.
If a school asks for documents or fees that do not fit safer-recruitment practice, tell us. Legitimate schools in the Gulf do not charge teachers a placement fee.
How PIT Recruitment supports you
PIT Recruitment is being set up as a UK-based specialist consultancy. Once our services launch, you will deal with a named consultant who prepares you for the interview format each school actually uses, and reviews the contract wording with you before you sign.
There will never be a fee to a teacher. When recruitment opens, you will be able to create an account, upload your CV once and apply to published vacancies.