Double your salary - teach abroad

Teachers keep their normal salaries

At a time when some of England's schools are short of staff, the Department for Education is offering teachers tens of thousands of pounds to leave the country.

The catch is they have to go for up to nine years and another EU language is essential.

The department is advertising two primary and a dozen secondary posts in the European Schools for children of EU employees.

Its advertisement says successful applicants keep their existing UK salaries and get a European salary ranging from 35,167 to 78,184 euros (£22,240 to £49,445).

There are also tax-free allowances which "can be expected to add substantially to the salary package".

The posts are for a probationary period of two years from next September, with up to seven years once confirmed in the job.

Baccalaureate

The jobs on offer include general primary teachers in Brussels and Munich, and a secondary level physics and maths teacher in the Netherlands.

Someone is needed to teach English as a foreign language with history and human sciences in Italy.

Shortages of secondary maths and science teachers in England have led to offer special incentives being offered to those willing to train in the subjects.

The 10 European Schools provide education for the children of EU employees in their mother tongues, following a European curriculum. One of them is in Oxfordshire.

They take children from the age of four up to 18. Part of the secondary curriculum is taught in the pupil's second language, and their final exam at 18 is the European Baccalaureate.

So applicants for the teaching jobs have to have a "basic working knowledge" of another EU language - mainly French or German - to be tested at interview.