Welcome to the wonderful world of Cactus TEFL!

1. Who or what is Cactus TEFL?

Cactus TEFL is a private organisation, working independently to help raise the profile of the TEFL industry, with the objective of promoting high quality courses which are professionally delivered, providing the participant with a solid grounding prior to embarking on a teaching career. We also aim to unite teacher with employer through our TEFL Jobs section.

Cactus TEFL forms part of Cactus Worldwide, an award-winning company with an established international reputation. In addition to Cactus TEFL, we are a leading provider of language holidays worldwide and tailor-made language training for both corporate and individual needs.

2. What TEFL courses can I find on your site?

When you search for a course, Cactus TEFL seems to work mainly with Cambridge CELTA & Trinity TESOL. This is a reflection of the wider trends in the marketplace, where the Cambridge and Trinity courses still seem to dominate. We feature courses on the basis of individual agreements with selected course providers, and not on behalf of the awarding bodies.

Cactus TEFL also works with the providers of other equivalent qualifications and shorter/intro TEFL courses, in recognition of the fact that the different schools around the world all have their own preferred qualifications, academic routes, and general requirements for their teachers.

3. How do you know about all these courses?

Over the years we've built up a fair amount of knowledge on the subject of TEFL and TEFL courses. We are in regular contact with schools and course providers around the world, we write on the subject of TEFL across all media, run university careers service talks, and have produced the "Little Book of TEFL" (which you can order by clicking here). We also take it upon ourselves to visit the vast majority of schools which feature on the site. A tough job, but someone has to do it!

4. How does Cactus TEFL survive as an organisation?

Whether you phone, email, fax or call round for a coffee, our advice is always completely free of charge. We aim to give you the very best service, and when you're ready to apply, a speedy TEFL course admissions service, where we work with you to get you onto the course you need in the location you prefer. The information you give us is confidential and we will always try to help you through your plans and projects.

Cactus TEFL is funded by the organisations who decide to join our TEFL course admissions service, ie the course providers featured on this site. The list of courses on our site is therefore not exhaustive, even though more and more organisations are choosing to work with Cactus TEFL.

To ensure our service is as complete as possible, we will happily search for courses for you which do not appear on the Cactus TEFL site. We might do this be sending out an email request on your behalf, or possibly by contacting schools in your area to check availability. Again, we won't charge you a penny for this service.

If you'd like to know more about Cactus TEFL or you'd like input in a press or media feature, feel free to contact us at any time. You can also visit our Press & Events page.

5. Cactus TEFL Financial Protection for Clients

Total Payment Protection (TOPP) Policy Cover:
In compliance with the UK Package Travel, Package Holidays and Package Tours Regulations 1992 and the Civil Aviation (Air Travel Organiser's Licensing) Regulations 1995 an insurance policy has been arranged with Travel & General Insurance Company plc to protect customers' prepayments paid in respect of package holidays as defined by the Regulations. These include:

• flight inclusive packages commencing & returning to the UK
• non-flight inclusive packages commencing & returning to the UK
• the ground handling aspects of packages where the customer is responsible for arranging travel to the destination
• accommodation only holidays

offered on this website and to cater, where necessary (and subject to the terms of the insurance policy), for:

• a refund of such prepayments if customers have not yet travelled
• making arrangements to enable the holiday to continue if customers have already travelled or
• repatriation of customers to the UK in the unlikely event of financial failure.
  
  
  

6. Work for Us - Jobs at Cactus

If you're interested in joining our dynamic team please see our Jobs Section.

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