ABSTRACT
While there is nothing especially new about a small number of qualified teachers taking up teaching posts in a country other than the one in which they qualified and are ordinarily resident, such teachers have always constituted a very small minority of the total teaching force. They have tended, moreover, to make such moves for personal reasons of one sort or another. With the development of higher levels of unity, mobility and exchange of ideas in Europe, what is anticipated by some is that, in common with other professionals, teachers may begin to make career moves to posts in other European countries in much greater numbers than ever before. At this early stage, therefore, it is perhaps prudent to look into the kind of migration which may develop, and how these moves might relate to the status of teachers in legal, social and professional terms.
