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In the UK. You do a three year course resulting in a B.Ed , that's if you know you want to teach from the off. People who decide they want to teach later can do a PGCE(post graduate certificate in education) Both can be can be financially crippling. Students have to go into debt or be helped by parents.

In jab's case, it's a special course for someone they would like to convert to a teacher who has previous life experiences.They value the experiences of the person and so pay them while they retrain. But for someone with a family to support its still very difficult.

A bit different here... You need a (minimum) 3-year B.A. before you can apply to any Faculty of Ed's consecutive program for teacher training, which means four years.
However, you can also apply, during your first year of university to the concurrent program, which would also mean four years.

Luckily, our provincial government picks up a good portion of the cost, so that a year in university averages about $5000 in tuition. Of course, there are other costs such as course materials, textbooks, parking, housing, etc.

I know of a few people who changed careers; but, there wasn't any assistance from the government while they attended the Faculty of Ed.