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CELTA

How to take CELTA

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Taking a face-to-face course

CELTA courses are run by authorised centres, based on specifications produced by Cambridge Assessment English.

The CELTA face-to-face courses can be taken in different ways:

  • full time – usually 4–5 weeks
  • part time – from a few months to over the course of a year

More than 1,500 CELTA courses are available every year at over 300 approved centres in more than 80 countries.

Before contacting your centre, please check you meet the following criteria:

  • Are you 18 or over?
  • Do you have a standard of education equivalent to that required for entry into higher education?
  • Is your English good enough to teach at a range of levels? (Minimum CEFR Level high C1 or above.)

If you do not have formal educational qualifications at the level indicated above, centres may still accept you, if you can demonstrate that you would be likely to complete the course successfully.

Choose a centre and apply for your course


Cambridge CELTA Course Online

CELTA can also be taken as a blended learning course, combining online self-study with hands-on teaching practice.

Input sessions, where you get both practical and theoretical teaching knowledge, are delivered online with tutor support. You only need to travel to your CELTA centre for lesson planning and teaching practice.

The course follows the same syllabus and leads to the same internationally recognised certificate as face-to-face CELTA courses.

Cambridge Assessment English provides the course in partnership with International House London.

Download the CELTA Online FAQs


The only way I could do the course was online … it’s really important for me to keep moving ahead in my career, so it’s fantastic that it exists.

Harriet Ayles
CELTA Course Online trainee
UK

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