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Career pathways

Choose a career and see the real picture: what it pays, how far it goes, the skills employers ask for, and what the job actually looks like day to day. Every salary figure comes from the UK Government's National Careers Service.

Choose your career area

Teaching and education

From classroom support to teaching adults

Supporting teaching and learning is the most common way into education, and the same qualifications lead on to teaching, assessing and quality assurance roles.

Skills employers look for

  • Explaining clearly
  • Behaviour support
  • SEN awareness
  • Lesson preparation
  • Marking and feedback
  • Working with teachers
  • Assessment
  • Safeguarding

Where this career can take you

  1. 01Teaching assistant

    £19,000 to £26,000 a year

    Supporting a class teacher, working with small groups and helping individual pupils, often including pupils with additional needs.

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  2. 02Higher level teaching assistant

    No official salary range published

    Taking whole classes, planning learning activities and leading on a subject or a group of pupils.

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  3. 03Assessor or internal quality assurer

    No official salary range published

    Assessing other people's vocational work in the workplace, then quality-assuring how other assessors do it.

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  4. 04Further education lecturer

    £28,000 to £47,000 a year

    Teaching your own subject to adults and young people in a college or training provider.

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Salaries are shown from starter to experienced and are a guide only — your pay depends on your employer, your hours and where you work. Source: National Careers Service (UK Government). We review these figures against the official profiles and update them when they change.

A day in the life

Teaching assistant: Louisa's story — published by National Careers Service. Someone doing the job, in their own words.

How JFC gets you there

  • The qualificationUK-recognised, taught by people who have done the job.
  • One-to-one job readinessCV, cover letter and interview coaching — start with our CV and cover letter tool.
  • Employer interviewsIntroductions to the employers we work with, plus our live vacancies.

Qualifications on this pathway

Listed in the order most learners take them.

Want to talk through a career in teaching and education?

Tell us where you want to end up and our team will explain the qualification, the funding you may be entitled to, and how we introduce learners to employers.

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