The Department for Education employs suitably qualified teachers - those holding a degree or equivalent and who have relevant teaching experience - to work in the Anglophone sections of the fourteen European Schools. The schools provide mother-tongue education principally for the children of employees of EU institutions. They have nursery, primary and secondary pupils aged 4 to 18 and are organised in language sections. Pupils follow the curriculum of the European Schools, learning a second language from the age of 6. Part of the secondary curriculum is taught in the pupil’s second language and a third language is taught from age 13. At age 18, pupils take the European Baccalaureate, which is regarded in all member states as an entry qualification for higher education.

There are currently no Departmental teaching positions in the European Schools for September 2012. Any vacancies for September 2013 will appear on this website in February 2013. The European Schools do recruit locally for teachers and further information on possible vacancies may be found under each of the schools listed on the European Schools website.