Alan2005

You can imagine the faces at UBC when they received these 'recommendations'

Novocastrian

LOL at the first paragraph. It's the same nonsense in Ontario. I've posted this before, but before your time. My OH did her teaching credential in French at Cambridge but when she was getting accredited here, OCT requested a form from Cambridge certifying whether the qualification was for teaching french to anglophones or to francophones. Needless to say, Cambridge doesn't have such forms. But would OCT budge?

ann m

Sounds like Almost Canadian who, I think, had to retake a course written by the guy that taught his lectures in the UK

gloveman

Hi there - we live between Courtenay and Campbell River - great part of the world. Can't see your husband having much luck in the IT field in the part of the Island you're looking at. As for teaching you stand more chance to get a job in the remote parts as less people want that. The north of the Island will be great for the life style you seem to want but not so good for getting jobs.

helcat12

Hello, everyone!
Yep, lots of conflicting remarks on this site!
I don't give much for wiki articles - they are not real people's experiences and I find them to be often misleading or out of date.
I have contact with a teacher who relocated 3 years ago, became a PRINCIPAL after 2 years on the island and has now moved to the mainland. This proves that there are places for teachers on the Island in the North, which is where I want to be! As posters here have said, many Brits have relocated successfully, even teachers, so I am not disheartened by posters with negative comments. Unlike some in my line of work, I am a teacher at heart- I would not want to give it up unless I had to - and one of my hopes about emigrating is to be able to teach in Canada away from the petty and destructive Governmental interference and bureaucracy in the UK.
Also my husband's IT work is of a nature that it can easily be done remotely with a high speed internet connection and a telephone. He sometimes works from home here, so it wouldn't matter if he was 20 miles away or 2000!
We recently went to an Emigrate fair and found it very enlightening.
An actual representative from the Canadian High Commission in London gave us some personal advice that has given us hope that my husband may be elligible for application through the Federal Skilled Worker route, which is relatively easy and quick at the moment. (That was the 'list' of jobs that I was referring to in my first post on this site!)
OH is currently getting the paperwork together and we will be submitting this in the next couple of weeks. I am very employable in other areas as well as teaching and have been very successful at securing jobs in the past. I seem to do well on the strength of my personality at interviews or informal meetings. If OH gets the nod from the Feds, I will be allowed to work anywhere, which will suit me fine to start off with. I can wait for the teaching to come good - I can't expect to get everything at once, can I?
Fingers crossed!

Aviator

But that is what they are, other peoples experience. If you don't like the answers you get, often from people with real experience, why ask. I guess your experience will end up giving you the answers.

All this proves is one person succeeded, out of how many who tried? It's not the lack of jobs that is the problem, the union hinders many from getting in. Did you ask this PRINCIPAL what your chances were?

Why do you think it will be any different here? It's not and there is union interference to go with it.

Time will tell I guess. Right now there are no shortage of any workers on the west coast. Everyone I talk to has found it really easy to hire a high caliber of employee, quite different from a few years ago.

I would not suggest giving up. We came whatever and ended up with a couple of job offers the week before we all finally moved over.

The north island is very cut off from the rest of the island. Great for lifestyle and if that's what you want and just earn enough to put food on the table then it may work. Why did the principal move from the island to the mainland?

Just don't be disappointed if you have to adapt your plans a lot.

Alan2005

Of course it's real peoples experiences. It didn't get there by magic you know, it's written by posters here based on what has happened to them.

helcat12

If I wasn't very adaptable, I'd never have made it this far in my life. I think I am very realistic about what this part of Canada has to offer us, I haven't got rose-tinted specs on and I am not running away from a bad life here (far from it, actually.)
My priorities are few and my requirements are simple. How they are fulfilled is a matter of luck, opportunity and effort on my part.

helcat12

Forums of all kinds are heavily populated by people with ther own axe to grind or no direct experience at all. It is hard to find people who have something genuinely useful to say.
You don't need any qualifications to write a wiki article, no-one checks you know what you are talking about and so it cannot be defitinive advice for someone such as me.
The very fact that several posters have disagreed about the teaching situation for British immigrants on this thread proves that the situation is not straightforward.
Also, it is out of date, as the person who directed me to it initially warned me.

Robin (The Gadget family)

Helcat12 - Be careful what you say because many of us have contributed to the wiki section to make it what it is today. I for one contributed to the 'things to do before you go' section, still as relevant today as it was 3 years ago. Wiki is all written and produced by dedicated forum members, some of whom spend hours helping out new-comers like yourselves, and can be updated at any time.

Some find this site a crutch until visas are obtained and others come for occasional advice and one day just aren't heard of anymore. For some the journey is longer than others, for others there are major hurdles to research.

If you search with the 'teachers' word in the search box above on the right, you may find more information from others experiences.

Maybe even you could update the outdated sections on the wiki?

Sorry.....just a bit hurt by your lack of appreciation for the efforts of the forum members.

Alan2005

Well you can take it or leave it. I do think you have rose tinted specs on despite your protestations to the contrary though.

Hahahahahahaha, no really. hahahahahaha.

fuschiagirl

I wonder why you are even posting on BE

You obviously know everything there is to know already. Articles on the WIKI ARE by real people - just because they don't say what you want to hear or were written some time ago doesn't make them any less valuable.

JonboyE

I share the comments of many others that the wiki articles are written by real people and reflect their real knowledge. As anyone can edit them glaring errors are easily corrected. I agree that some are not updated regularly, if at all. You can check this by clicking on the "history" tab, then make your own decision on their usefulness.

However, I can't argue with this. If you keep this state of mind you will likely have an enjoyable and successful emmigration.

Jingle

One wonders why you came on this forum for advice then

I tip my hat to some of the contributors on this forum - they have gone out of their way, in their own time, to log their experiences and pass on valuable advice. Of course it's up to you whether you take that advice or not but I don't think that coming on BE as a newbie and then sniping about the work of long-standing contributors is a good strategy for getting the best from this forum.

I have found the Wikis to be fantastic sources of info and the great thing about them is that they can be corrected and/or updated - it's very easy to criticize other people's earlier work but maybe it would be much more helpful to contribute any new information yourself. After all you are a teacher ......

J

dbd33

I'd be cautious about assuming that any sort of internet connection is available in rural Canada, nevermind high speed.