Thailand Teaching Fellowship

Thailand Teaching
Fellowship

Join our Programe

It’s time to get abroad and teach!

Join our Thailand Teaching Fellowship to kickstart your life after university, experience a fascinating new culture and language, and gain valuable qualifications and skills, all while enjoying delicious food!

In each cohort, we are delighted to invite up to 45 people to join us in Thailand for Ofqual TESOL training and an introduction to Thailand and Thai culture, before starting a 5-month teaching internship, with a monthly allowance, accommodation, a vibrant community, and professional development support to launch you on a global and impactful career.

When you graduate from our programme, we hope you will feel well-placed to continue your global TESOL adventure in Thailand or beyond.

This is a career move, with training, a monthly allowance, accommodation, and community. Our discounted fee of £1,400 covers all costs relating to your TEFL and mentorship.

Next in-take can be signed up to below!

In-take dates are shown at the bottom of this form, if you’d like to consider a shorter programme or see more start-dates then you can view those here. If you join us on a shorter programme, you may extend and join a longer Fellowship position too.

Year in Thailand Teaching Fellowship Programme

Please note this video was made for our group 2022 intake, so some elements may have changed (including funding). The video gives you an introduction to how our programmes work and what teaching in Thailand is like generally. *Please note that flights are no longer covered – and the programme has a £1,400 fee.*

Join our Programe

What do you get?

Our Thailand Teaching Fellowship is your launchpad for a global and impactful career. On the programme, you will receive:

A monthly allowance, which should help with funding everything!
Personal and community support.
Ofqual TESOL training and certification in Thailand
Guaranteed 5-month internship contract in a school in Thailand with monthly allowance, accommodation and visa support, with the option to extend to a full year.
Great teaching locations in local mid-sized cities within 6 hours of Bangkok, such as Chachoengsao, Sri Ratcha, Nakhon Ratchasima (Korat), Phitsanulok and Khon Kaen.
Professional development mentoring and training throughout your time in Thailand, with a focus on teaching and social enterprise. We do this so that your fellowship with us becomes a first step in a lifetime of interesting and impactful living.
Professional development mentoring and training throughout your time in Thailand, with a focus on teaching and social enterprise. We do this so that your fellowship with us becomes a first step in a lifetime of interesting and impactful living.
Visa and work permit support, including all paperwork, processed by our team. You will need to pay an extra £100 if you haven’t yet apostilled and legalised your degree for Thailand.

What does the
teaching involve?

You will be teaching English to local Thai students, usually in a primary school setting (although there will be some secondary school and nursery/kindergarten positions). The Thai school year is split into two terms, one in May-October, and the second in November-March.

You will be teaching English to local Thai students, usually in a primary school, but also some nursery, kindergatern and secondary school positions, from Monday to Friday, from about 7.30am to 4.30pm (exact school days vary depending on the school).
The Thai school year is split into two semesters, the first starting in May and the second in November, with longer holidays in April and October.
You will be in a great location, within six hours of Bangkok, with at least two members of your training cohort and continuous community support from our team.
Guaranteed 5-month internship contract in a school in Thailand with monthly allowance, accommodation and visa support, with the option to extend to a full year.
You will earn a monthly allowance and be provided with accommodation directly.
You will receive continuous professional development support and mentoring to support you in your teaching and with your future career plans.
You will live in a local Thai mid-sized city where you can immerse yourself in the local community and learn Thai.
You can continue your TESOL training over the months you are teaching at the school. The teaching and training may be intense at times, but will prepare you for a global teaching career.

How do you apply?

We review applications and offer places on a rolling basis. Apply quickly to maximise your chances of securing an unmissable move to Thailand with us.

Meet our eligibility criteria. You need a degree for most long-term positions in Thailand due to work visa requirements, but to ensure inclusivity we work to have a number of positions for non-degree holders. If you do not hold a degree, please email us to review your options.
Be a native English speaker, or have native-level English – which can usually be demonstrated if you have a degree from a university in the UK*
Have a clean criminal record
Be available and excited to travel to Thailand in line with the in-takes listed at the bottom of this page

This programme is ideal for recent graduates, but is open to anyone, including mid-career
changers and those without degrees (on certain placements). You can apply right now, just login! If you don’t have an account yet, you can apply now on this page!

You will only be able to access this form after you have applied + logged in.

See something you like? Want to request a place on a specific programme now?!

After you’ve 1. paid your application deposit here, and then 2. uploaded your interview here you will then be able to submit a request on this form. Until then, you can only read it…Don’t wait too long, as places are filling all the time.

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Important update:25/07/2024
For programmes starting after 31st August 2024, our funding will have run out! There is currently no further full funding (e.g. for flights) in place.

This means that in order to participate, you will need to fund additional costs as below;

•your pre-departure costs (e.g. flights, visas, vaccinations, insurance, etc) on all programmes.

•you will also need to self-fund your TEFL certification training and programme support through paying a fixed fee of £1,400 per programme (regardless of duration).*

•*It is important to our mission to still offer some completely fee-free programmes. We expect these to run in the summer in China and year-round in India. All other projects will require the fixed fee.

Please note that the £1,400 programme fee is a discounted fee for the dates currently listed on our website as we transition from funding after 1st September. Programme fees may increase in 2025, and we will update this on our website once programme dates for 2025 are confirmed.

Please also note, this is very recent news. We are in the process of fully updating the website and all marketing materials and informing participants of replacement programme plans. With best wishes, The Gotoco Team.

We will be in contact with all applicants who have requested a specific programme before the end of August to offer alternative plans.

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We will be in contact with all applicants who have requested a specific programme before the end of August to offer alternative plans.

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Thailand Dates (Fellowship Programme) (Required)

This is a fee-based, low-cost programme. On all programmes from 1st September 2024 onwards, you cover pre-departure costs (flights, visa, vaccines, insurance); all other programme costs are included (meals, accommodation, placement). The fee covers our TEFL certification and mentorship – the placement is funded through local programme resources. On this programme, during your internship, you will receive a monthly stipend to cover your meals, with accommodation provided, this is usually ca. £500 per month. Orientation commences on the start date indicated, so you need to arrive in-country in time for the listed date. Usually it is good to factor in 24 hours between leaving your home and arriving at our programme, with time difference factored in on top that could mean leaving 2 days before our start date. As a reference, you can see available flights on www.Skyscanner.net or www.trip.com

Fellowship

Thailand Dates (Fellowship Programme)

£1,400: 1st October 2024 - 31st March 2025 (n.b. exact start and end dates tbc after interviews, once local term dates are confirmed)

£1,400: 20th March 2025 - 31st October 2025 (n.b. exact start and end dates tbc after interviews, once local term dates are confirmed)

Other

Do you want us to try and place you with 1x friend?

Yes Please

No Thanks

Friend's policy note:

We think it is great if people apply together as friends, because it helps you feel confident about the adventure that lies ahead and gives you someone to discuss packing and preparations with. However we cannot guarantee to place you with a friend on the same project, we will try to help where possible.

Please note,

In the past, we have found that placing friends together might create cliques where some people were left feeling left out. Imagine if you were the lone participant on a project where 3 of 4 other participants were good friends in advance.
We also find that the self-development opportunity can be far far richer when you join alone, lone-travel is a courageous and very educational thing to do. We offer a great support and social network, so you will find that joining without friends is fine, and gives you a good compromise between pure lone travel and having people with you.

Most people join our programme independently of friends, and the feedback is usually that they got so much out of it because of the experience of joining a programme alone and making new friends there - reinventing oneself and exploring the world independently etc. We gear the programmes towards lone travellers, if you are a group of friends keen to travel together, I'd recommend that you choose the same region (in this case SE Asia) and then go to different projects, but meet up at the end for travelling together.

So, if you have exceptional reasons why you need to be placed with a friend, please let us know and we can consider it. Reasons might include past trauma that means you need an emotional support companion with you, or if you are in an established romantic relationship then we can also consider this too. Please let us know about that below. In many cases, we won't be able to place you with a friend but please tell us your reasons and we will do what we can.

Admin note:

If you want to have a chance of being placed with someone, they need to have already filled this form OR do so within 24 hours of you doing so.
If you don't include their username in the field below, then we won't know who they are. Please find out their username from them and fill it in below - we don't need their name, just username.
Please tell us your exceptional reason for needing to be placed with a friend below too

Friends's username and your reason to request being placed together(Required)

Final and important bit!
Please ensure the programme date shown below is the one you wished to select!

This is the date period you have requested

If this isn't correct, please go back up and re-select.

£1,400: 1st October 2024 - 31st March 2025 (n.b. exact start and end dates tbc after interviews, once local term dates are confirmed) £1,400: 20th March 2025 - 31st October 2025 (n.b. exact start and end dates tbc after interviews, once local term dates are confirmed)

Other

Do you want us to try and place you with 1x friend?

Yes please No thanks

Friend's policy note: We think it is great if people apply together as friends, because it helps you feel confident about the adventure that lies ahead and gives you someone to discuss packing and preparations with. However we cannot guarantee to place you with a friend on the same project, we will try to help where possible. Please note, •In the past, we have found that placing friends together might create cliques where some people were left feeling left out. Imagine if you were the lone participant on a project where 3 of 4 other participants were good friends in advance.. •We also find that the self-development opportunity can be far far richer when you join alone, lone-travel is a courageous and very educational thing to do. We offer a great support and social network, so you will find that joining without friends is fine, and gives you a good compromise between pure lone travel and having people with you. Most people join our programme independently of friends, and the feedback is usually that they got so much out of it because of the experience of joining a programme alone and making new friends there - reinventing oneself and exploring the world independently etc. We gear the programmes towards lone travellers, if you are a group of friends keen to travel together, I'd recommend that you choose the same region (in this case SE Asia) and then go to different projects, but meet up at the end for travelling together. So, if you have exceptional reasons why you need to be placed with a friend, please let us know and we can consider it. Reasons might include past trauma that means you need an emotional support companion with you, or if you are in an established romantic relationship then we can also consider this too. Please let us know about that below. In many cases, we won't be able to place you with a friend but please tell us your reasons and we will do what we can. Admin note: •If you want to have a chance of being placed with someone, they need to have already filled this form OR do so within 24 hours of you doing so. •If you don't include their username in the field below, then we won't know who they are. Please find out their username from them and fill it in below - we don't need their name, just username. •Please tell us your exceptional reason for needing to be placed with a friend below too

Final and important bit! Please ensure the programme date shown below is the one you wished to select!

This is the date period you have requested

If this isn't correct, please go back up and re-select.

Apply Now!

If you pass our first application stage, you’ll then be invited to a consultative interview.

Frequently Ask Questions

As part of the application process, you will have a video interview with our team, giving you the chance to ask any questions that you have. For now, please find answers to common questions below and feel free to email us at recruitment@go-to.co if your question isn’t answered here.