UK + Non EU SS Application

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Hi,

I'm getting confused the more I read about this.

Myself (UK citizen) and my wife (Non EU) are moving to the EU for a job I have been offered. My wife has been granted a national visa for the EU country and told she is welcome to apply for residence on arrival.

I want to go back to the UK to complete teacher training in 2018 after my employment in the EU. I'm a former engineering manager and will be training as a physics teacher. I'll get a substantial bursary (£30k pa) due to the demand for physics teachers, my previous qualifications and their awards. They may ask me to take a SKE course as I'm an engineering graduate not a pure physics graduate. This would likely entail me needing to leave my employment a few months earlier than my contract runs for to be ready for the academic year (meaning we would live approx seven months in the EU country). Not sure if the bursary would qualify us under normal rules but I doubt it and concerned about how the HO will view leaving the employemnt early?

Should my wife apply for residence in the EU country? If so temporary or permanent?
Do we then apply for the family permit? Should we skip residence in the EU country and just apply for this?
Should we just lawyer up?

We need teachers! We really need physics teachers!!! But not if you had the audacity to marry someone outside the UK, in that case go whistle :/