All of our passionate and dedicated teachers meet the highest international standards with formal qualifications and extensive experience in teaching English to adults.

Our minimum requirements for teachers are:

  • education to degree level or equivalent qualification
  • a certificate level qualification in teaching English as a foreign language such as Cambridge University CELTA or Trinity College London CertTESOL
  • at least two years’ teaching experience
  • high proficiency in the use of the English language.

Meet our teachers of adults

Bharati Pardan

Bharati Pardan

''The British Council has been the platform which has fostered my passion for teaching adults, contributing to my professional development.''

Bharati has been working as a secondary school teacher since 2010. An English graduate from the University of Mauritius, she joined the British Council in 2014 after completing her CELTA in December 2013. She graduated with a PGCE in English in 2014.