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The big teaching programmes open once a year and close without a reminder. Tell us where you are thinking of going and we will email you before the window shuts. Nothing else.

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Programme	Where	Window	Status
Self Assessment	UK	Registration closed on 5 October 2026 for anyone who earned more than 1,000 pounds in trading income, including online teaching, in the tax year to 5 April 2026. HMRC warns that a late registration can carry a penalty, so register now if you missed it. The return and payment are still due by 31 January 2027 online	Closed 5 Oct
Fulbright ETA	France	Closed on 6 October 2026 at 5pm Eastern for the 2027/28 competition. Ten English Teaching Assistant awards. No further window is published; the next competition would be the 2028/29 cycle	Closed 6 Oct
JET	Japan	Open now. The 2027 application opened on 21 September 2026 and closes on 13 November 2026 at 11:59pm HST for US applicants. The United Kingdom closes on 5 November 2026, confirmed today on the Embassy of Japan in the UK page, which states the application must be accepted as complete by that date and that no exceptions are made. Ireland closes on 4 December 2026 at 23:59. Other countries set their own dates, so check your embassy	UK closes 5 Nov
TAPIF	France	Open now. The 2027/28 call opened on 15 October 2026 and closes on 15 February 2027, published by Villa Albertine and read at source on 14 October 2026. Open to US citizens and permanent residents aged 20 to 35, with three years of higher education completed at departure and intermediate French at B1. €1,010.67 gross a month, about €810 net. The programme opened nineteen days earlier than the previous cycle’s 3 November, which is why we would not print the pattern as a date	Closes 15 Feb
British Council ELA	UK, nine destinations	English Language Assistants 2027/28 opens in November 2026. The programme page, read on 14 October 2026, gives the month only and no day. The last round closed on 28 January 2026 at 13:00 GMT, so expect a January close again, but treat that as the pattern until the page says otherwise. Asks for English at C2, age 18 or over, five of the last ten years’ UK residence and A-level or equivalent	Opens November
NALCAP	Spain	Shut on 30 June 2026. No 2027/28 date published yet	Watching for dates
EPIK	South Korea	Spring 2027 intake, marked “Just opened!” on the official Apply page from 1 August 2026. Rolling review, no closing date published	Apply early

Dates checked against each programme’s own notices, last verified 18 August 2026. The JET, EPIK and NALCAP rows were re-read at source on 9 September 2026, the JET, EPIK and Fulbright rows again on 23 September 2026, and the JET, EPIK, Fulbright and HMRC rows again on 30 September 2026. Updated 30 September 2026: a UK Self Assessment row was added, the TAPIF row no longer states a November opening because no date is published, and the Australian JET date is flagged unconfirmed. Updated 1 October 2026: the JET row previously flagged 5 November as an unconfirmed Australian date. It is the United Kingdom date, confirmed today on the Embassy of Japan in the UK page, and it is now named as such and carried in the status. Ireland’s date, published by the Embassy of Japan in Dublin and read at source today, has been added as 4 December 2026. TAPIF and NALCAP were both re-read at source today and neither has published a 2027/28 date, so both rows stand unchanged. Updated 7 October 2026: the UK Self Assessment registration deadline of 5 October and the Fulbright ETA France close of 6 October have both passed, so both rows move out of the urgent status and into the past tense. This was a between-editions check of expired windows, not a full sweep, so no programme page was re-read today and the check dates above stand as they were. The nearest live deadline on this page is now JET for UK applicants on 5 November 2026. Updated 14 October 2026, the sweep that follows Edition 6: the TAPIF row no longer says no date is published. Villa Albertine opened the 2027/28 call and the page was read at source today, so the row now carries 15 October 2026 to 15 February 2027 and the stipend figures with it. A British Council English Language Assistants row has been added, opening in November 2026 with no day published, read at source today. NALCAP was re-read today and still carries the 2026/27 conditions with no 2027/28 date, so that row stands unchanged. The JET, EPIK, HMRC and Fulbright rows were not re-read today and their check dates above stand as written. The nearest live deadline on this page is still JET for UK applicants on 5 November 2026. Updated 21 October 2026: the TAPIF window opened on 15 October as published, so the row moves out of the future tense and its status chip moves from “Opens 15 Oct” to the closing date of 15 February 2027. This was a between-editions check of a window that has now opened, not a full sweep, so no programme page was re-read today and every check date above stands as written. The nearest live deadline on this page is still JET for UK applicants on 5 November 2026. Rolling schemes get an apply-early nudge rather than a countdown, because there is no honest deadline to give you.