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GriffinParka
Joined: 16 Dec 2010
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Location: West London
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 Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 8:17 pm Post subject: Worst EFL job in the UK? |
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This one really MUST be the pits - minimum wage!!
ESOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER
Universal Training Centre - Watford
Jobcentre Plus, Directgov -
Minimum qualification to apply this job: - CELTA , DELTA or PTLLS, any other equivalent qualification holders are welcome to apply for this job. We are looking for an ESOL teacher at our Watford Office. Main responsibilities for this role are as following: teaching responsibilities, teaching ESOL class size of 10-15 adult candidates, conducting. ESOL Speaking and Listening exams and preparing exam results and relevant paperwork. Or sending their CV to [email protected] , or visit www.universaltraining.org.uk/
How to apply
You can apply for this job by sending a CV/written application to Zahid Hafeez at Universal Training Centre, 58 Vicarage Road, WATFORD, WD18 0EW or to [email protected] .
Employer: Universal Training Centre
Job No: WTF/32992
Wage: �6.50 PER HOUR
Hours: 20 PER WEEK, MONDAY -FRIDAY, 10.00 TO 17.00
Location: WATFORD, HERTFORDSHIRE WD18
Duration: Permanent
Date posted: 07 February 2012
Closing date: 21 February 2012
So, they're paying �6.50 an hour, for 20 hours teaching a week, making a weekly wage that won't even cover your rent - �130!!
And I do like the 'job number' - WTF indeed!! |
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slapntickle
Joined: 07 Sep 2010
Posts: 270
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:12 pm Post subject: Re: Worst EFL job in the UK? |
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| GriffinParka wrote: |
This one really MUST be the pits - minimum wage!!
ESOL ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHER
Universal Training Centre - Watford
Jobcentre Plus, Directgov -
Wage: �6.50 PER HOUR
Hours: 20 PER WEEK, MONDAY -FRIDAY, 10.00 TO 17.00
Location: WATFORD, HERTFORDSHIRE WD18
Duration: Permanent |
Some nice detective work there, Mr Parka. This is simply unbelievable and bloody scary, although I can see what's coming. Actually I've heard from sources on the inside at the Dept of Work & Pensions(DWP) that if you've been unemployed for a year, you'll need to work for your benefits. Fine, but they're talking about farming you out for 40+ hours a week to a private company who'll have unemployed graduates digging the roads or working on a factory production line. JSA is currently around �67.50 per week, so it's outright slave labour and exploitation. However, with all this production going on, it might boost our manufacturing sector and make a dent in our interest payments on our national debt? |
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Perilla
Joined: 09 Jul 2010
Posts: 792
Location: Hong Kong
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WTF indeed! Supposedly 7 pounds an hour was a fairly standard rate of pay for TEFL in 1976 ( http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?t=94493 ).
According to the This is Money inflation calculator, 7 pounds in 1976 is the equivalent of 42 pounds in today's money. So the Watford school should be paying around 42 pounds an hour. |
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Captain Coddo
Joined: 04 Feb 2012
Posts: 45
Location: East Coast
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JFYI, I was getting 6.50 and 7 quid an hour over 20 years ago at a couple of dodgy 3rd division schools in south London. It was paid in cash, of course, in a brown envelope at the end of the week. The owner of one school was a very dodgy and dislikeable Nigerian, and the other a rather pleasant woman from Singapore, I believe.
It's quite incredible to realise that people are working for the same amounts of money nowadays. Shame on you, Mr Hafeez! |
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Knaved
Joined: 27 Jan 2010
Posts: 34
Location: Earthquake zone
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Better off working for someone like EF in China. Higher salary than this nonsense and housing paid for.
Also, never ever has there been a better advertisement than this for doing a PGCE and leaving the career option that is ELT. |
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Mikalina
Joined: 03 May 2011
Posts: 140
Location: Home (said in a Joe90 voice)
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| Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Have a look on the Times Ed forums - Unemployed Teachers and Supply Teachers. Pretty grim there too..... |
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scot47
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| What a shocking gang of bolshies ! This is TEN SHILLINGS an hour above minimum wage ! |
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Knaved
Joined: 27 Jan 2010
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| Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2012 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Mikalina wrote: |
| Have a look on the Times Ed forums - Unemployed Teachers and Supply Teachers. Pretty grim there too..... |
Point taken.....ok, never has there been a better advertisement for cleaning the dishes at Pizza Hut. |
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Kipling
Joined: 13 Mar 2009
Posts: 371
Location: ...Ah Mrs K peel me a grape!!!....and have one yourself!!!!
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 5:43 pm Post subject: It's never too late to learn |
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and look at the level of English that is used in the advertisement
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Main responsibilities for this role are as following: teaching responsibilities, teaching ESOL class size of 10-15 adult candidates, conducting. ESOL Speaking and Listening exams and preparing exam results and relevant paperwork. Or sending their CV to [email protected] , or visit www.universaltraining.org.uk/
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Maybe the guy who wrote the ad will join the class and let's hope they have appropriate teachers to point out what is wrong with it.
Mr K
Is on his way
to bed!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Kofola
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Location: Slovakia
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That's brilliant!
Good luck to them in finding an ESOL teacher who can do 'conducting' |
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