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Fully funded global work experience funded by the Turing Scheme

Our goal is to break pathways into education careers for UK FE adult learners by arranging funding and overseeing global placements for our partners.

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Who We Are

TEFL Society is a non-profit membership organisation for independent learning providers.

Our goal is to break pathways into education careers for UK FE adult learners, we do this by arranging funding and overseeing global placements for our partners.

We are Turing Scheme experts for overseas education placements. We have hosted 2000+ UK students on Turing Scheme projects since 2021 and hope to open 2000 further spaces in 2024.

Our bid-writers have a 100% success rate in obtaining funding. We are welcoming new partners for the upcoming Turing Scheme round.

Our Team

Danny

MBA, Oxford

Lisha

Law degree, Chinese

Richard

Tibetan

Matty

 PGCE teacher trainer

Lucy

MBA, Oxford

What We Do

Programme types

Types of Work Placements:

  • Internships and Apprenticeships
  • We offer 1-3 month internship roles in education settings across Thailand, Vietnam, Bali, China. These are junior roles, where everything is arranged for the learner and our coordinators provide constant support
  • We also offer 6-12 month apprenticeship roles. These are backed up by our highest teacher training course (Trinity CertTESOL) and take place in Thailand only. Apprentices will join in groups of 20-30 adults for these oportunities

Destinations

  • Our expertise lies in Asia. We have a 15 person coordinator team working across a network of over 100 partners.
  • Our founding team began running this project while studying Chinese at Oxford University, so they have a particular China focus!

How can we help?

  • We will write your bids, for free
  • You become a member of our association
  • Our expert partner, Gotoco, will manage travel and projects (including insurance, flights, placement support and more)

What is Turing?

  • We are entering our 4th year accessing funds for student travel.
  • These funds are offered to any student on UK gov funded courses in FE sector.

Terms & Conditions

  • We write the bid and run this.
  • You get org’ support budget and a reward for your learners
  • We can enrol learners with you, and vice versa. If you don’t refer learners, we reserve right to enrol learners on your courses

FurtherAfield serves the further education sector.

Our mission is to widen access to international opportunities for FE sector institutions and their learners, with a particular focus on the Turing Scheme.

We are a non-profit membership organisation representing independent FE sector learning providers. Join us!

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