How to become a further education teaching professional
Official title: Further education teaching professionals
Also called: Deputy head, Art teacher, Course leader, Dance teacher, Music teacher, Learning coach, Assistant head, Dance lecturer, Head of faculty, Dancing teacher, English teacher, Programme leader
Further education teaching professionals supervise and teach trade, technical, commercial, adult education, secondary and post-secondary courses to students beyond minimum school leaving age.
Main tasks
- Prepares, delivers and directs lectures, seminars and tutorials
- Prepares, administers and marks examinations, essays and other assignments
- Arranges instructional visits and periods of employment experience for students
- Assists with the administration of teaching and the arranging of timetables
- Liaises with other professional and commercial organisations to review course content
How to become one
Further education lecturers normally require a professional or academic qualification in the subject area they intend to teach, relevant professional, industrial or business experience and an appropriate teaching qualification. A DBS check may be required.
Ways in
- University: Arts & Humanities degrees, Offered by 27 universities in the UK
- University: Education & Teaching degrees, Offered by 25 universities in the UK
Pay · Outlook
- Median full-time pay: £42,218 a year The middle half earn £36,630 to £50,846.
- About 87,000 people work in this job now, and about 94,800 are projected by 2035. (+9%)
Related jobs
- Secondary education teaching professionals
- Higher education teaching professionals
- Primary education teaching professionals
- Nursery education teaching professionals
- Special and additional needs education teaching professionals
- Teachers of english as a foreign language
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Questions people ask
How do I become a further education teaching professional?
Further education lecturers normally require a professional or academic qualification in the subject area they intend to teach, relevant professional, industrial or business experience and an appropriate teaching qualification. A DBS check may be required.
How much does a further education teaching professional earn in the UK?
Median full-time pay is £42,218 a year (Office for National Statistics). The middle half earn £36,630 to £50,846.
Is a further education teaching professional a growing career in the UK?
Yes. Employment is projected to grow 9% by 2035, from about 87,000 to about 94,800 people (Department for Education).
Do you need a degree to become a further education teaching professional?
Usually. 72% of people in this job hold a bachelor's degree or higher.
Sources
- Office for National Statistics: Annual Population Survey: employment by occupation (April 2025 to March 2026), OGL v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-03
- Office for National Statistics: SOC 2020 Volume 1: structure and descriptions (2026-08-27 edition), OGL v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-03
- Department for Education: Skills Imperative 2035: employment projections by occupation (2021 to 2035 (Warwick IER / Cambridge Econometrics)), OGL v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-03
- Office for National Statistics: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, Table 14 (2025 provisional), OGL v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-03
Updated 2026-10-03
Graduate outcomes: Discover Uni dataset, HESA (www.hesa.ac.uk), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0). Aggregated by subject and adapted by Peernovo.