Teacher training winter start or online?

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I have been working as a high school teacher outside the UK for 6 years. Now I am back in the UK and would like to continue but I will need to complete my PGCE or PGDE before I can work here. For this year I have already missed the entrance for courses this year but I don't want to wait a full year to start. I have been searching for a January/February starting class in Scotland or an online course anywhere in the UK (I could travel for exams or occasional events) but I haven't seen anything. I also understand that I may have to arrange the experience part of the course myself. Is there such a thing as PGCE online? If anyone has any information or ideas I would be very grateful.
Thanks in advance.

For England I would start by looking at getintoteaching.education.gov.uk (sorry - I don't know how to do links). There's lots of advice there and you can attend online information events and chat online.

I presume you have already checked that your existing qualifications are not recognised here? If not, they will be able to tell you. As far as I know you don't actually need a PGCE.

There are different routes to teaching and I'd have thought that the best one for you would be the salaried route where you are paid as an unqualified teacher and train on the job, while working towards Qualified Teacher Status and a PGCE. I would imagine none of the training places would start until September but if you are offered a salaried place the school might take you as an unqualified teacher now and not start the training until September.

You can search training opportunities at find-postgraduate-teacher-training.service.gov.uk and filter by salaried, subject, location, PT/FT etc.

Teachinscotland.scot seems to be the place to start in Scotland.

Thank you for the ideas and the links, I will look into that. I do like the idea of the working while gaining he qualification.

I've known American teachers to get qualification equivalencies without doing a pgce, and independent schools will take experienced teachers without a pgce, as well.