UK-TEFL intensive training courses are an established route to becoming an employable English teacher. You will be awarded a Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) upon successful completion of the course. This is an internationally recognised qualification and will allow you teach English in the UK and overseas. Our practical courses take place over two days on a weekend, or over three days during the week (Birmingham, Cambridge and London only).
Courses are held in Birmingham, Bristol, Brighton, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle and Southampton. To view dates and locations, click here.
Yes, It is an Institutional Member of the College of Teachers and adhere to their code of practice.
You must be at least 16 years old to apply for a TEFL course.
You don’t need any qualifications. As long as you can speak English fluently you can go on the course – even if you don’t have any teaching experience.
You don’t need to be an expert as some grammar will be covered on the course. Most people haven’t studied grammar since school so you won’t be the only one. If you do want to brush up, you can enrol on our Language Awareness Module.
You can call us on 0871 222 1231 or apply online – just click here.
UK-TEFL courses are between £175 and £250 depending on the location and duration. This includes the course, refreshments and your course certificate.
You can pay with major debit and credit cards. If your course is more than two weeks away you can pay a £50 deposit and the remaining balance will automatically be charged to your card two weeks before the course start date. If your course is within the next two weeks you will need to pay the full amount.
Yes, just call 0871 222 1231. One of our advisors will take all your details and your employer’s details. Your joining instructions will be issued and sent to you and we will send an invoice direct to your employer.
Yes, but if you don’t want that to happen, give us a call and we can arrange a way which suits you better.
You can book onto a course the day it starts but we highly recommend you book on at least two weeks in advance.
The main difference is the 2 day course is held at weekends, and the 3 day course is held during the week. They cover the same content, but the 3 day course has shorter days. If it is possible for you to attend the 3 day course during week, we would recommend you do this, as you will gain an extra lesson practice and more one-to-one time with your trainer and, therefore, more hours of training on your certificate.
There are over six hours of peer to peer teaching on the course. More information on how the days will run can be found here.
You don’t need to buy anything to attend the course, although we would recommend purchasing Absolute TEFL if you are intending to teach in the next six months or so.
During the course you will be able to practice teaching with other students on the course. It will involve role play so you will know what it’s like to be a teacher AND a student. This will hopefully encourage you to put it into practice for real and to find a job.
Our classes have around 20 students. Numbers vary depending on the time of year, so classes may be smaller.
There is no exam as there is continuous assessment throughout the course.
You can fail but it is the trainers’ job to get you through the course. In our experience the only people who do fail are not really suited to becoming a teacher. Our fail rate is less than one percent.
You will be qualified to teach English in the UK and overseas. You will receive an internationally recognised certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL).
When you complete the course you will be qualified to teach adults and children.
If you successfully complete the course your certificate will be sent by standard delivery post within 10 working days. It will be sent to your address – if your address changes you need to tell the Administrator at UK-TEFL immediately by calling 0871 222 1231. If you wish to have your certificate issued quicker, we do offer a Fasttrack Service, costing £15. This will get your certificate issued the day after your course and delivered the following day. This includes postage worldwide.
As soon as you receive your certificate you can apply for jobs in the UK and overseas. Ask your trainer on the course for more information.
Yes, UK-TEFL has full time paid placements in Vietnam, South Korea and China, for seven months up to a year. We also recruit seasonally for paid jobs in Spain, Turkey, Greece, Italy and the UK. For more information click here.
We provide many options to graduates of the UK-TEFL course. If you want to go into more depth you can try the Online TEFL Course. If you want to specialise in a particular area we have several modules which you can study at home and will make you more attractive to employers. They are Absolute TEFL, English Language Awareness, Teaching English to Young Learners, Teaching English One-to-One, and Teaching Business English.
We do have very fair terms and conditions which we recommend looking at before applying for a course. If you need to change your date or location there is a £10 charge.
If you can't find what you are looking for then call one of our advisors on 0871 222 1231
UK-TEFL is the organisation that runs the TEFL courses with it's accredited trainers. We work with some other organisations and agencies that sell spaces on our courses. After attending a UK-TEFL course, regardless who you bought the course from, you will receive certification for UK-TEFL.
CELTA stands for Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults. It has, traditionally, been the only route to gaining EFL employment in the UK or overseas. A CELTA course lasts four weeks FULLTIME, in a classroom. This is not to be confused with courses that have the majority of their training done online. A job asking for CELTA, or equivalent, will only accept those who have done a CELTA or a Trinity TESOL course.
An employer is only interested in time spent in the classroom. Online and distance learning hours does not count as time spent in the classroom. If a job is asking for 120 hours of training it will mean a CELTA or Trinity TESOL qualification. Untrustworthy TEFL organisations will try and claim that their courses are the equivalent of a CELTA course purely because they provide up to 120 hours of training. This is not the case.
Accommodation is not included in the price of the TEFL course, so you will need make your own arrangements if you need to overnight in the course location. A suggested hotel is listed at the bottom of every course location page.
