northernhord
Active Member
I did a HE/FE PGCE and was treated like shite for a few years, the attitude of a lot colleges up here is that you really really want to work for them so much so that they will give you loads of unpaid course designing type stuff which you will willingly do to make a good impression and hopefully they might even employ you for more than a few hours a week.
I found this to be the case with two out of the three colleges i worked at, they werent interested in education and spoke to most of the team like they were pieces of pavement dog shite, I walked out of the last college under a stream of effin n blinding they wound me up that much.
Outside of statutory education there is a gaggle of 'for profit providors' There are parasites such as A4E and training for today who will pay about £270 per week to teach basic skills to disinterested stoned scallies.
I sound very cynical, dont let me put you off, I work in the voluntary sector now where I get to do bits of teaching as part of my job without some line manager breathing down my neck for tick box outcomes.
I,d do the masters any day of the week.
I found this to be the case with two out of the three colleges i worked at, they werent interested in education and spoke to most of the team like they were pieces of pavement dog shite, I walked out of the last college under a stream of effin n blinding they wound me up that much.
Outside of statutory education there is a gaggle of 'for profit providors' There are parasites such as A4E and training for today who will pay about £270 per week to teach basic skills to disinterested stoned scallies.
I sound very cynical, dont let me put you off, I work in the voluntary sector now where I get to do bits of teaching as part of my job without some line manager breathing down my neck for tick box outcomes.
I,d do the masters any day of the week.
- so it's not impossible to apply now). Although I had already had and paid off a student loan from my undergraduate degree in the early 90s I was able to get a 2nd one for my PGCE. I was also eligible for a grant whilst doing the PGCE. So I lived off the grant and took out the loan which I stuck in a high interest account. I then used the loan money the following year to do my Masters. I also had the option of supply teaching (since I had the PGCE) to supplement my income during the Masters. On top of that, when I got a teaching job I got started fairly high up the teaching scale because as well as loads of previous teaching experience I had an MA (which they are now heavily encouraging all teachers to get).
