Information for Employers

Employing a person with a qualification accredited by IATQuO

Courses accredited by IATQuO strictly conform to Our Standards and can give evidence of external scrutiny on a regular basis. A person that has been on such a course has been trained by experienced and qualified personnel and has mastered essential content relating to the English language and the approaches to learning and teaching English, including observed teaching practice.

The content of an accredited course:

- takes a minimum amount of time (100 hours) to complete,

- has the minimum essential content, including observed teaching practice

- is delivered by qualified and experienced professionals to the highest standard,

- is recognised internationally by employers, and

- can have its validity verified by referring to an external professional organisation.

Courses accredited/validated by IATQuO are moderated on a regular basis. The full list of courses that have been validated and moderated by IATQuO are found here.

To query a qualification being presented by a potential employee, please Contact Us.

What IATQuO attempts to achieve for TESOL/TEFL teachers and employers

IATQuO (International Accreditation of TESOL Qualifying Organisations) promotes and maintains internationally acceptable standards in the training of teachers of English to speakers of other languages.

To achieve this we provide initial and ongoing external accreditation/validation services to training organisations who request them. We also encourage training organisations to subscribe to our validation services if they do not already subscribe to them or to any comparable validation or accreditation scheme.

We also provide information on accredited/validated training courses to employers looking for suitably qualified teachers.

What does accreditation/validation and moderation involve?

Validation, or accreditation, is an initial process whereby a TESOL training course is scrutinised by an external body employing highly qualified and experienced professionals to ascertain that it conforms to certain minimal internationally acceptable standards.

Subsequent, periodic scrutiny to ensure that those standards are being maintained is known as moderation.

Reports are submitted by IATQuO to the training organisation on completion of each validator’s or moderator’s visit, for action where necessary. These reports may be made available for trainees to consult at the discretion of the training organisation.

Fuller information on the validation and moderation process can be found in the Organisations section of this website.

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