Accreditation requirements?
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 1:30 am
Recently I was having a conversation with a co-worker who said that if our accrediting body (Cambridge) were to come and check our school that we would fail because we don't have enough teachers with QTS. I mentioned that it is true some of them don't have QTS, but what about our co-workers who came from non-native speaking countries with educational credentials from their home country? We have a good number of Pakistanis teachers in our group, and he said that because they don't have a Western credential that they would also not be included as having QTS. They do however have teacher credentials from Pakistan.
Is what he saying is true? What exactly is viewed as a valid credential for Cambridge and other accrediting bodies?
Another co-worker says that it does not matter what country they are from as long as they have QTS equivalent from their home country. She said theoretically, that an international school that had teachers only from non-English speaking SE Asian countries could pass accreditation.
So what exactly is the truth here?
Is what he saying is true? What exactly is viewed as a valid credential for Cambridge and other accrediting bodies?
Another co-worker says that it does not matter what country they are from as long as they have QTS equivalent from their home country. She said theoretically, that an international school that had teachers only from non-English speaking SE Asian countries could pass accreditation.
So what exactly is the truth here?