Getting a Teaching Gig in Thailand - original diploma required?

[DanS]

Hi there,

does anybody know if the ORIGINAL diploma is required to get hired as a teacher in Thailand? Or would original transcript + degree verification do? (Diploma photocopy + original transcript + degree verification?)

Thanks a lot.

[JayClay]

If you want to get/convert to an non-B visa whilst in Thailand you will need the originals. 

 

It may or may not be different if you apply for the visa from a consulate outside the country.

[save the frogs]

Shouldn't the school you are applying to be able to provide this information? 

 

I believe if you are applying from your home country, you need to get your diploma authenticated by the consulate. 

 

 

[DanS]

18 minutes ago, save the frogs said:

Shouldn't the school you are applying to be able to provide this information? 

 

I believe if you are applying from your home country, you need to get your diploma authenticated by the consulate. 

 

 

Not applying from home country. Will be applying from Thailand... but misplaced my original diploma.

[DanS]

28 minutes ago, JayClay said:

If you want to get/convert to an non-B visa whilst in Thailand you will need the originals. 

 

It may or may not be different if you apply for the visa from a consulate outside the country.

I don't care about making a run to Vientiane, that would be fine.

[DanS]

What I was able to find online is that this varies school to school, but yes, they tend to accept official transcript + degree confirmation (and/or possibly diploma phocopy).

 

I was just curios if anyone has more recent information from their school and/or how they got hired without the original diploma.

[hughrection]

2 hours ago, DanS said:

What I was able to find online is that this varies school to school, but yes, they tend to accept official transcript + degree confirmation (and/or possibly diploma phocopy).

 

I was just curios if anyone has more recent information from their school and/or how they got hired without the original diploma.

Transcript was fine for me for a uni job. Best to get a diploma printed up anyway. Do it yourself and look at google images and hopefully there is an example there from your uni. Amend the doc and put your name and graduation date. That should be sufficient.

 

They are really anal here when it comes to the diploma cert even though it is the transcript that is the most important.

If the school is still not happy, take the printed & amended diploma to your embassy and they will stamp it, not as proof of a real diploma but as you presenting it as such.

They love stamps here in LOS especially from embassies.

 

Good luck.

[DanS]

12 hours ago, hughrection said:

Transcript was fine for me for a uni job. Best to get a diploma printed up anyway. Do it yourself and look at google images and hopefully there is an example there from your uni. Amend the doc and put your name and graduation date. That should be sufficient.

 

They are really anal here when it comes to the diploma cert even though it is the transcript that is the most important.

If the school is still not happy, take the printed & amended diploma to your embassy and they will stamp it, not as proof of a real diploma but as you presenting it as such.

They love stamps here in LOS especially from embassies.

 

Good luck.

Good advice, thanks buddy.

[bigt3116]

20 hours ago, hughrection said:

take the printed & amended diploma to your embassy and they will stamp it, not as proof of a real diploma but as you presenting it as such.

Love to know which embassies you think will do this, the British embassy certainly wont, nor will the American embassy. 

 

I would think that there is not an embassy on the planet that would "stamp" your photoshopped diploma.

[bigt3116]

20 hours ago, hughrection said:

Transcript was fine for me for a uni job

Remember that universities come under OHEC and not OBEC, and the rules are totally different between the two.

 

Much more paperwork and certification required for schools under OBEC.