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We read the ministry circulars, embassy notices and official programme pages so you do not have to. Only openings we would point our own graduates at make the board.
4 Nov 2026: no programme source was re-read, so every check date on this board still stands and the data is current to the 29 October sweep. One link was corrected: the footer line reading “Issue 7 is on the wire” pointed at Edition 6.
11 Nov 2026: the hub was flipped to Issue 008. For the issue itself Ola Flynn read the two gov.ie language-assistant pages and all six ELA country terms at source that morning. No figure on this board was re-read, so every check date in the rows below stands as written.
12–13 Nov 2026, fortnightly sweep: no programme source was re-read, so every check date on this board still stands. Corrected on the page around it: the deadline-alerts panel above described the closed United Kingdom JET window in the present tense and now states each embassy date without tense, matching the Deadline Alerts desk. Edition 7 had no forward link to Issue 8 and now carries one. A second Issue 008 page that published in error at /edition-8/ has been withdrawn and redirected to the live issue.
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Editor’s note
The Hire Wire is written for teachers in Ireland who are tired of guessing which TEFL jobs abroad are real. So we go to the sources: ministry circulars, embassy notices and the programme pages themselves, and we print what they actually say, with the date we checked it. Issue 008 is about a date that is missing. The Department of Education and Youth runs two language assistant schemes, one bringing assistants into Irish schools and one sending Irish students out to Europe. On 6 October it told the inbound side that the 2027/2028 round opens in January 2027. The outbound page, the one an Irish student depends on, still fronts a round that has already closed. Ola read both pages and all six country terms at source on 11 November. The second half of the issue completes the pay board this desk left three blanks in a fortnight ago, and resolves the France date discrepancy Issue 007 printed as unreconciled: France files through the French Embassy, not the Department, which is why its deadline was three days later. If a line on this page is wrong, we correct it and say so.
Katie Troy · Managing Director, The TEFL Institute of Ireland. Edits every issue, authors rotate · Issue 009 lands Wednesday 25 November
Deadline alerts
We will warn you before the window shuts
JET’s 2027 application opened on 21 September and the Irish closing date is 23:59 on Friday 4 December 2026, set by the Embassy of Japan in Dublin. Each embassy sets its own: the United Kingdom date is 5 November 2026 and the United States date 13 November 2026. The Irish route into Spain’s assistant programme, the Department of Education and Youth’s ELA scheme, has no new places for 2026/27: re-read at source on 16 October, both the English and the Irish-language gov.ie pages carry the closure note in full, and no 2027/28 date is published. TAPIF, the American route into France, opened on 15 October 2026 and closes on 15 February 2027, and is open to United States citizens and permanent residents only; the Irish route to a French assistantship is the same ELA scheme, whose 2027/28 forms are not yet published. NALCAP is the North American strand of the Spanish programme and is not open to an Irish passport, so its dates are not your dates. Pick the places you care about and we email you in time to actually apply, and nothing else.
Updated 3 September 2026: this panel previously read “JET closes in November” and “NALCAP goes in April”. Neither was carried by the official notice cited for it. JET now matches the programme’s own timeline of October to late November or early December, set by each embassy, and NALCAP matches the board below, which has shown no published 2027/28 date since the window shut on 30 June.
Updated 17 September 2026: this panel previously said TAPIF “closes in January”. No 2027/28 closing date has been published. Our own Paperwork Desk records the last cycle as running from 3 November to 15 March, so a January close was never carried by the source. The panel now names the opening month only. Two further changes today: the Salary Index card on this page read “Pay checked past €2,300 a month”, which was Hungary’s figure. Issue 004 established that route is not open to an Irish passport, so the card no longer quotes it. The Istanbul line has moved from “classrooms open 14 September” to past tense now that the date has passed.
Updated 24 September 2026: this panel previously said JET “closes in late November or early December”. That came from the programme’s generic timeline page rather than a notice for this cycle. The 2027 application opened on 21 September 2026 and the United States deadline is 13 November 2026, both read at source on 23 September. Ireland’s closing date is set by the Embassy of Japan in Dublin, and we have not been able to verify one, so the panel now says so rather than name a month.
Updated 1 October 2026: this panel previously said TAPIF “opens in early November” as a flat statement. No 2027/28 date is published anywhere official; our own Paperwork Desk records the last cycle opening on 3 November, so early November is a pattern and the panel now says so. The panel also now carries the finding that led Issue 005: the Irish ELA route into Spain has no new places for 2026/27. NALCAP stays on the panel only to say it is the North American strand and not a route an Irish passport can use.
Updated 28 October 2026: two dates added for Irish readers. The ELA scheme’s 2026/27 round for France, Germany and Austria closed at 5pm on 12 March 2026 per gov.ie, and the 2027/28 forms are still not published, read at source today. And teachers who qualified outside Ireland without finishing induction there have until 23.59 on 30 December 2027 to apply under the Teaching Council’s timebound provision, open since 22 October 2025 and read at source today. The JET dates above were not re-read today and stand as written.
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