Spotlight On

When teachers initially contact us go work abroad, nine times out of ten they ask for the major tourist destinations as their preferred location. This is often because it's familiar and a gives a level of comfort. But what they don't realise is that there are so many amazing places to live and work that are just not tops on the tourist map. What makes a good holiday destination? Usually it's a few famous landmarks, a big airport and some western hotels. Oh, and a Starbucks and McDonald's around the corner. What makes a good place to live and work? A wider variety of things to do and see, friendly and welcoming host nationals, having enough money to live on, an easy way of life, finding the best local coffee shop, appreciating fascinating and deep culture, and of course a great teaching job.

To help you broaden your horizons during your job search for the perfect teaching job abroad, we have developed some ‘spotlight on’ documents so that you can become more familiar with some of the amazing places around the world that often have excellent teaching jobs: places you probably have not thought of! Think about your home country – when people visit your home country from abroad where do they go? If you are in the UK it's London, if you are in the US it's New York and if you are in Australia it's downtown Sydney. But where you live now is probably more charming and more liveable with friendly neighbours and lots to do each weekend that probably aren't on anyone's tourist itinerary. That's how you have to think about teaching abroad – don't just consider the holiday destinations, consider the world!

So please read on to find out what's great about Indonesia and what you can do on the weekends in Kuwait. You might just learn something amazing.