Are you ready to Share Your Skills? You don’t need a teaching degree to add to your existing professional skillset and teach the next generation of workers by teaching in Further Education. Find out more.
Share Your Skills is a new campaign from the Department for Education (DfE) which calls on skilled professionals to share their valuable expertise and train the next generation of workers in their field by teaching in further education (FE). Alongside this campaign, a new website has launched providing information and support along the journey.
You can teach in Further Education and change lives without changing your career.
You do not need a degree to start teaching in further education.
Your skills are more valuable than you realise. You can start a job in further education (FE) without a degree or any teacher training. Whether you’re an engineer, plumber, lawyer or anything in between, your skills could make you a great Further Education teacher.
There are multiple ways to teach in FE and Share Your Skills…
- Change lives without changing your career by teaching in FE part-time alongside your current job.
- Teach in Further Education alongside your current job.
- Start earning straight away and do funded training on the job.
- Train the next generation of workers in your field.
- Become a teacher without a degree or prior teaching qualifications or teaching experience.
If you’re interested in finding out more about how to apply your valuable industry skills and teach in Further Education, visit the Teach in FE digital service for information on entry requirements, training options, where to find jobs and to access a dedicated support service.
Visit the Teach in Further Education website and find a teaching job to match your skills.
The Share Your Skills campaign:
- wants to increase awareness, understanding and consideration of FE teaching by promoting the unique, compelling but often unrealised benefits of this career choice.
- promotes the high value and transferability of industry expertise and the opportunity for to ‘change lives without changing careers’ by teaching in FE part-time alongside their current job.
- targets those with substantial industry experience who can share their practical skills and expertise, with a focus on subjects with high vacancy rates: construction and trades; engineering and manufacturing; finance, legal and accounting; digital and IT; and health and social care.
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