What qualifications does an american citizen need to be a teacher in england and wales. How do I get them?

ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: Here’s a web page from England with details about how non-citizens can teach: http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/teachinginengland/index.cfm

One other agency it refers to is the National Academic Recognition Information Centre:

http://www.naric.org.uk/

They apparently determine whether [...]

Are the brown spots on bananas unhealthy to eat?

ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: If the spots are on the peel they might be unpleasant, but probably not unhealthy, to eat. If decomposition has set in on the white flesh of the fruit, I’d treat it like any food that’s going bad. “Spots” sound worse than just [...]

Does tandoori chicken refer to the spices or the cooking technique?

ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: Seemingly, both or neither. It’s named for being cooked in a tandoor (a traditional clay pot-like oven). This can be fudged by cooking at a very high temperature in other types of ovens. Despite being named for the high-temperature cooking device, [...]

I set a goal of reading a number of books in a particular time period. I miscalculated and will have no chance of finishing all the books. Those that I do not finish, I will have to leave where I am. What should I do? I feel like leaving these unread books is a huge [...]

What is the only word in the English language that completely changes it’s meaning just by capitalizing the first letter?

ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: Oh-oh … is this a dirty joke? AP doesn’t do those. Or maybe it’s a question intended for Marilyn Savant in Parade Magazine rather than for Answer Person. Seems to me there [...]

Can people in Puerto Rico dial the same 1800 numbers for free that we can on the mainland?
Also, is Puerto Rico part of the US? For instance, when you say that the population of the USA is such and such, does that include Puerto Rico? Or does it include residents only or American [...]

how many high school students are there in the US?
how many middle school students are there in the US?

Does that include the 50 states and other territories?

Thanks!!.

ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: The Dept. of Eduction’s Digest of Education Statistics has data that lags a few years. For 1999/2000, the latest year that [...]

How do I make an online form so I know who downloads files from my website. I’m offering personal pictures of myself (in noncompromising positions) and I would like to limit downloads to people who enter their name and email address, etc. into a form that gets sent to me somehow.

Any thoughts on where [...]

Will Mars really appear nearly as large as the moon during August, as some emails my friends have received suggested?

ANSWER PERSON RESPONDS: No. We’d have a lot to worry about if it did.