Lionbridge

lauzellen

I'm still waiting to even get the pre-screen test and suprise suprise but I didn't get a response to my email. Appears a degree and post graduate qualification haven't helped me! At 10hrs a week it is something I could have continued to do when I go back to teaching in september & would have been a nice monthly top up. Oh well hopefully I will hear something from the Open University soon as I've recently applied to be an associate lecturer - i'm not holding out much hope for lionbridge as it's been 3 weeks now since I applied.

scorpianking02

Looking at other sources, there appears to be a shortage of work at least for UK assessors.

angel13

lauzellen wrote: »

I'm still waiting to even get the pre-screen test and suprise suprise but I didn't get a response to my email. Appears a degree and post graduate qualification haven't helped me! At 10hrs a week it is something I could have continued to do when I go back to teaching in september & would have been a nice monthly top up. Oh well hopefully I will hear something from the Open University soon as I've recently applied to be an associate lecturer - i'm not holding out much hope for lionbridge as it's been 3 weeks now since I applied.

im not sure OU will reply any quicker - i applied months ago and I am still waiting, what area is your degree in?

CALGACUS

Hi all,

I've just been filling in the online application for Lionbridge and when I get to the 'Data Overview' page there are a lot of fields that are blank.

When I return to the pages where I (presumably) should be given the option to enter this data (e.g. 'Form of Address', 'Date of Birth', 'Sex' should (I assume) appear under the 'Personal Data' tab) there are no fields for them. As a result there is a lot of information missing from my application.

The only fields that appear on the 'Personal Data' page are: 'First Name', 'Middle Name', and 'Last Name'.

Has anyone else had a similar problem, better still does anyone else know the solution?

I'm using IE Explorer 8 (if that is significant!)

Any help would be much appreciated!

CAL.

lauzellen

angel13 wrote: »

im not sure OU will reply any quicker - i applied months ago and I am still waiting, what area is your degree in?

In Chemistry and Neuroscience - so I applied to some of the science courses. I'm also a Science teacher. What is your degree in? Did you apply for the courses starting oct/nov? or jan/feb? If the ones for next year the deadline for appplications hasn't passed yet! The oct/nov deadline for applications has passed but on some courses they still have openings and so are still accepting applications. I hope to hear something soon and shall email if I hear nothing in a few weeks.

angel13

thanks my degree is in computing and maths but 50% of my units were also business related (i got degree as HNC then a DipHE and then completed as a degree with OU so I have different studies all over the place so not traditional way of doing it all!!). Lots of them are not until next year some are the END of next year! I will try to find time today to go back in and have a good look as its possible some different vacancies have arisen since.
I hope you get on well - did you study with the OU? I was thinking about becoming a business studies teacher (teaching GCSE or at college)but it would be full time at uni for a year and I really can only do it part time so in a quandry about it all, plus I thought this would be a better option for me as I understand how it all works from a student perspective and I can fit it around everything else

lauzellen

I read your post on OU also just - you've done well! I can't begin to imagine how difficult it must have been with a child - i've a 10 month old now and she's quite a handful. I didn't study with OU - i did my degree very much the traditional way, straight from college, then i worked in laboratories and doing research for several years until I trained to be a Science teacher via the PGCE route.

With your degree you could train to be a Math, ICT or Business Studies teacher - If you did the math or ICT training you would get a 9K bursary (£1000 pcm for 9 months) and 6K for Business Studies (approx £670 pcm). You can apply for student loans (up to £4950), tuition fee loans and grants - if you need any childcare I believe grants etc are avaliable for this and their is the dependants part of student loans. For employment prospects, honestly, you are better off training to do Maths or ICT. You also will still get Child Tax Credits. It would be entirely possible for you to do the full time teacher training via PGCE or SCITT (Funding is the same for both) unless there is something other than funding is restricting you - some universities offer the PGCE part time. You can search for both full time and part time courses using this link http://www.tda.gov.uk/Recruit/thetrainingprocess/typesofcourse/postgraduate/gttrcoursesearch.aspx

Sorry to other OP's that this has gone off track from Lionbridge - for an update - i've still heard nothing lol

angel13

Thank you so much. I have found a Business Course that I want to do via Canterbury, seems to be the only one like it as it covers school and college - I would prefer to be at college you see I had thought about doing the ICT or Maths teaching otherwise but not so sure as I would prefer to be dealing with college students really. My son is now 15 (first year of GCSEs for him!) so I do not have to worry about childcare thank goodness. I really wanted to study part time as I am trying to do other things (like new business) as well plus I had back surgery and have to be really careful not to do too much. I was worried full time at 3 different locations and the uni and all the driving (I am not in same town as uni and i am worried school placements might be miles away) would mean I just could not do it all. I should really contact the course coordinators and find out more.
I was also concerned about the applying as you pay the fee and can only put in one application a year. As this business course I have looked at is a one off if I put that and they did not want me would this mean I then cannot apply for anything else for a whole year? I cant put a list of business courses as there are not any others.
I will set myself aside a day next week to go through it all as if I can find something part time that would be perfect - especially if i can get lionbridge or ou work as well as for lionbridge i have heard nothing about my test results so a little fed up now!

lauzellen

Even if your training is not in college but the traditional PGCE you can still teach up to A-level. Why don't you put down the business course as your 1st choice and then think about putting maths or ict courses as back up? Once you are qualified then you are qualified and as long as you have the knowledge you can teach anything! Some schools would see it as a distinct advantage to have a teacher who could theoretically teach 3 subjects :cool: Best bet is to phone the co-ordinators for the course! The GTTR fee you refer to is for your applications for the year, so the current fee would be for courses starting September 2009 and then applications for September 2010 would start from the october I believe - you would have to pay the fee again to apply for 2010 start.

I'm not going to lie - teacher training is tough with juggling lesson planning, resource creating, marking, report writing and uni assignments with any sort of social life, but it is so so so worth it if it's really what you want to do - when you have a breakthrough with a difficult child and they actually behave well for you and achieve in your subject it is so rewarding and worth all the hassle you went through with them! If you have a decent course tutor they would let you put some sort of request in as to distance you would have to travel to the school placements!

OU also offer teacher training you know! Just a though.

angel13

thanks a lot I had seen the OU teacher training but i thought it was the sort where you have to find a placemeent yourself - i dont understand all the details of it. I will set aside a day next week to go through all of it again i think and call anyone relevant and decide what is best for me The other course had implied that that was the only way I could teach A Levels at college hence i thought that was best for me - if that is not the case i need to recheck everything.

as for social life that doesnt matter as that ended when i got my degree with being a parent anyhow so i am used to that plus partner is away working half the time and hoping to do an OU course himself next year so if hes busy doing that i may as well be busy doing something else

thanks again ill let you know how i get on.... I had discussed with a family member who is a primary teacher as everyone else who knows me thinks it would be a really good thing for me to do and i would love it. but this family member did the traditional teaching route and not a PGCE like I would do and has the opinion that the best teachers are the ones like her and i would be doing it for the wrong reasons, this is what had put me off as made me think i wasnt good enough to be considered