Originally Posted by DaiHard

After having taught in the UK for a number of year I've watched the system go down the toilet. Unless you work in a private (called Public) school like Eton or Rugby then most likely you'll be swamped by masses of paperwork, an inflexible curriculum, extreme political correctness, a management that will happily sacrifice you to save their own butts, long hours and, worse, undisciplined feral kids. It has been recently ranked as the most stressful job in the country and just below a policeman in the likelihood of getting seriously assaulted (one woman teacher was recently raped by a 15 year old in her own classroom and it was her that ended up in court).

There is a shortage of teachers for reason. My advise, choose something else, you'll easily get work (and a wp) in the hospitality trade in London they just love Aussies.

Originally Posted by paully

Exactly. There are some decent teaching jobs in the UK still, if you look around, ask around and - as always - you have a little bit of good fortune.
I'm teaching in the UK now, Torbers, at a sixth-form college so just A level students. I teach History and Law and it's quite fun but lots of preparation. Yes, there's lots of paperwork which everyone hates, but you kind of expect that these days. What type of students do you want to teach and where in the UK? PM me if I can help at all.