Teaching English to refugees and migrants is a job with meaning

So many jobs these days can seem meaningless. It's easy to imagine that your work doesn't matter.

But not when you're teaching English to refugees and migrants.

This work is really important. You're helping people learn survival skills. You're helping them integrate into their host country - which benefits not only them, but their community as well.

Teaching in general is often underrated. Until you've done it yourself, you don't know how challenging it can be.

But teaching ERM can be even more underrated. There often isn't much funding, and you're expected to achieve a lot without many resources.

On the other hand, the people you work with do understand the importance of this work. Because they're the ones who benefit from it.

I've been teaching ERM for 25 years, and that's what's kept me going. It's the satisfaction I see on my learners' faces when they've learned something they didn't know before.

It might be something small, or something huge. It doesn't matter in a way, because it's all meaningful.

If you're interested in a career or voluntary work teaching ERM, then join our course starting in September. We still have a few spaces left, but sign up before they're all gone, and learn to feel confident when teaching English to refugees and migrants, whatever they bring to your door.

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