> Does an A level in English Lit and a few westerns
> in print qualify me to teach English or writing at the Open
> University ?
Quite possibly. My mum did OU tutoring with only a BSc.
She wanted to go back to work part time after having us
kids and got in teaching first year undergrad stuff.
I had an MSc when I started tutoring for them.
You could always try your local OU centre (I guess there's
one in Sheffield, I know there is in Leeds). They sometimes
have other short term contracts as well, for example in maths
they'll do a 6 month study of using calculators in the classroom
to find out how effective it is and take on a couple of researchers
for that. (My dad did some of that kind of stuff for Leeds Uni after
he retired.)
[
www.open.ac.uk]