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In recent years the number of TEFL jobs in Egypt has gone through the roof. This is due to the fact that if an Egyptian wants to gain a place at university or land a well paid job they’ll usually need to be able to speak English pretty fluently.
The growing number of Egyptians who are taking English lessons has led to a huge increase in the number of TEFL jobs in Egypt. Demand is particularly high amongst the business community, while university students and middle-class school children are also in the market for private tuition.
You can earn anything from 1,000 to 8,000 Egyptian Pounds (US$200-1,500) a month depending on your qualifications and experience. While experienced teachers should be able to charge 30-120 Egyptian Pounds an hour for private lessons. Many teachers are paid part of their salaries in US Dollars or English Pounds to make transferring money easier. Many schools will pay for your accommodation and it is possible to live very comfortably by teaching English in Egypt.
These are our top three places to teach English in Egypt. They all offer something a little different, but they have a couple of things in common too: a high demand for TEFL teachers and loads of TEFL jobs.
Cairo is the country’s (and the continent’s) biggest city and home to much of Egypt’s financial, commercial and mercantile industry. As always where international trade thrives, a demand for a workforce fluent in English usually follows, and Cairo is now the main place to find TEFL jobs in Egypt.
Alexandria sits on the shores of the Mediterranean and has a faded, belle-époque glamour athat soon gets under your skin. Demand for TEFL teachers in private language institutes seems to remain pretty constant and the cool breezes of the Med make even the hottest days of the African summer a little more bearable.
Luxor is home to a number of the country’s top tourism training centres, and so the demand for qualified TEFL teachers to teach English in Luxor is pretty high and pretty steady. All the temples and archaeological sites also mean that you won’t be short of things to do when you’re not teaching!
