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Hi, I was wondering if anyone is or has been in the same boat as me that could offer advice. I am a primary school teacher in the UK. Worked in education for over 10 years and in my 5th year of teaching full time. Have a 1st class primary Ed (BA honours) degree with Qts. I know qts isn't valid in oz, so I have been looking into doing a pgce top up course. However, I am aware that my UK qualifications must be equivalent to 4 years. This top up degree will be another year but part time. Designed to work alongside my current work. Would this be sufficient? I grew up in Sydney as a child and gained citizenship via my parents but would love to go back but would love to continue my profession. I'm aiming for Jan 2023. So I will need to start the course this year ideally. I don't want to do it and find out afterwards it isn't enough. I would really struggle going back to uni full time without the wage etc but keeping my options open. If anyone could point me in the right direction of who to ask that would be great. Smart teachers advised that my qualifications be 'equivalent to 4 years' my degree was 3 years plus the part time 1 year top up? Would that work? Thank you xx

Hi Guys, I have a PGCEI, from the University of Sunderland, which was basically the same as a regular a PGCE course but the 12 week teaching practice was not done in UK, hence was not given QTS. I'm considering migrating to Australia and was wondering whether, PGCEI is recognised by AITSL? even though it doesn't have QTS status, its contend is the same and has more than 45 days of supervised teaching.

I am looking at moving to Oz inapproximately 2 years. I am a fully qualified primary school teacher with a BA QTs Primary Eduation degree which I completed over 3 years. This was followed by my NQT year and am now in my 6th year of teaching. I am wondering if anybody has been able to get a teaching job in Oz with this qualification over 3 years as I keep hearing that I needed to have done a 4 year course. Would also be good to hear opinions from anyone teaching in the primary sector in Oz. Samjs

I am looking at moving to Oz inapproximately 2 years. I am a fully qualified primary school teacher with a BA QTs Primary Eduation degree which I completed over 3 years. This was followed by my NQT year and am now in my 6th year of teaching. I am wondering if anybody has been able to get a teaching job in Oz with this qualification over 3 years as I keep hearing that I needed to have done a 4 year course. Would also be good to hear opinions from anyone teaching in the primary sector in Oz. Samjs