Recently, Richard Wood, our Schools Development Manager for the South East, visited The Bourne Academy to present them with a cheque for £100 and a bag of goodies.

The Academy won the money in a Red Nose Day competition that we ran in March. We encouraged schools, pupils and teachers to post photos of their Red Nose Day antics on our Facebook wall and once the competition closed, we chose our favourite photo.

The picture we selected as our top entry was posted by a teacher at The Bourne Academy which meant that £100 towards their fundraising total would soon be theirs.

The staff and students were absolutely thrilled to receive the news as they were just short of their target. The £100 they received from eteach meant they reached their goal so there were smiles all around.

You can view all of the entries from our Red Nose Day competition by visiting the eteach Facebook page. If you want to know about our future competitions be sure to like our Facebook page so you can be the first to find out.

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Eagle eyed Gerry spotted that we were sitting next to a bit of a celebrity on the plane whilst ironically, I was too engrossed in my celebrity gossip magazine to even notice. Ex England football manager Graham Taylor turned out to be a very charming man and was pleasant to everyone throughout the flight despite being questioned by a football fan throughout the entire journey.

 As we couldn’t feel our toes through the cold anymore we decided it was time to get some dinner then an early night as we had a 6am start.

Day 1 started with a quick talk from ex Eteach colleague Colin Bell. Colin, who is now the Executive Director of COBIS, gave everyone a warm welcome and introduced the first speaker of the day, Martin Skelton.

Martin is the co-founder of Primary File Publishing and Fieldwork Education and for the last eight years has been a Main Board Director of The WCL Group. He designed the International Primary Curriculum and is currently leading the development of the International Middle Years Curriculum for 11 – 14 year old children.

Gerry then headed off to hear Steven Mark discuss A Beginner’s Guide to IPC (International Primary Curriculum) whilst I kept an eye on the Eteach exhibition stand. The day got off to a good start as I started talking to a guy who was looking for some advice for his daughter who is about to start her first teaching post in Kuwait.  

Gerry found Steven’s talk about the history and key principals which led to the development of the IPC, how the curriculum is structured and the learning process that underpins it, to be absolutely fantastic. Feeling truly inspired, she commented that if ever there was something to entice her back to teaching, the IPC would do the trick.

The next talk of the day was with Steven once again and was centred around Leadership and Learning within the IPC. The focus of this session was to provide practical strategies to enable leaders at all levels to manage the IPC in their school.

After lunch Gerry headed off to a talk by Martin Skelton, the guy who opened the conference, and learnt all about how teachers can ensure that real learning is going on in their classroom. Confident that the Eteach stand could look after itself for the afternoon, I went to see internationally renowned Quality Circle Time Model founder, Jenny Mosley who was giving a speech about enhancing self esteem in yourself and those around you. This was a fantastic session which involved a range of activities from clapping games to dancing around a classroom.

We are now enjoying a well deserved glass of wine while mingling with exhibitors and delegates from all over the world before heading out for an exhibitor’s dinner tonight. Come back soon to find out what day two had in store for us at the 2011 COBIS Conference for Teacher and Leaders and to see some pictures of the events.

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We’ve had an amazing response to our International Teaching survey!
Thanks to you for sharing your experience and aspirations with us…

Some of the key findings from the survey are:

34.6% of respondents actively looking for work overseas
31.8% said they are “open” to the idea
30.7% of those saying they want to work overseas have between 6 and 10 years’ experience
24.9% have been teachers for between 16 and 20 years
27.9% of those who are searching for jobs overseas are between 41 and 50 years old
26.9% are between 31 and 40

Why are teachers looking to work overseas?

32.8% cited better working conditions, cited by 32.8%
at 52.7% the biggest reason was broadening personal horizon

Your thoughts have captured the attention of the media…
- Guardian

- Daily Express

- Channel 4

We have over 300 vacancies in our International Zone

Plus over 2,000 new candidates have joined our new International e-newsletter…

Sign up today!

A world of opportunity awaits you!

Colin

How to save £80m a year

Large schools, and particularly academies, are burning their budgets due to a lack of training, understanding and control – particularly in the area of staff recruitment advertising.

Schools should boycott expensive newspapers like TES, The Guardian and even the local press, and to use more competitive online alternatives.

For example Eteach.com offers a fixed-price unlimited advertising service that will save money especially for larger schools who advertise regularly enough money to employ more teachers, or avoid impending cut backs.

UK schools spend around £68m a year on National Press with the bill for recruitment advertising in the local press coming in at around £20m. Then there are the additional costs of paper-based admin and postage bringing total expenditure to at least £90m a year. (DCSF said it was £120m in 2008).

Just take a look at the figures!

The following comparison takes 100 job postings across 10 schools as an example:

* Eteach Premium: unlimited adverts = 20,000 fixed cost
* Schools Recruitment Service (SRS): Local press @ £500 +250 SRS = 52,500 + TES
* TES Gold: = min 90,000 + newspaper ads

The above is based on Eteach’s unlimited ad package, priced at £2,000 per school.

The Schools Recruitment Service (SRS) would cost £250 per school – plus the cost of media. This flawed DCSF-backed system is incapable of bringing the savings schools need.

The TES Gold service is based upon £900 per advert, with newspaper advertising costs still to be added – typically £1600 per combined advert.

The worrying thing is, by using SRS or just TES/Guardian or Local papers schools have no control over their expenditure.

Eteach is a proven medium, with excellent traffic and responses delivered at a fixed price.

The total cost if all secondary schools in England and Wales used Eteach (e.g.5,000 schools x £2,000) would be just £10m – and primary schools could receive a FREE service.

Now that’s a saving at least £80m per annum immediately!

This is an equation I have discussed many times with various MPs, and yet none has had the power or inclination to drive home the obvious savings that we now need.

It’s time to act…

JPH

Finding an International job has never been easier…I found my new Director of English position in Baku, Azerbaijan on http://www.eteach.com/

The personal support which Eteach International provided was outstanding and the professionalism and speed was first class.

I continue to encourage others to pursue the idea of teaching abroad and using Eteach.com is a fantastic was for schools, teachers, senior leaders and support staff to connect.

Register today with Eteach.com and browse the latest education jobs world wide. If you have any queries about teaching abroad contact international@eteach.com

All the best with the job hunting.

Sean