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Adrian Evitts
Joined: 15 Mar 2012 Posts: 1
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Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 11:21 am Post subject: Leaving message: SABIS University, Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan |
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Teaching at SABIS University in Erbil has been the greatest pleasure and privilege of my life; it has also been the hardest job that I have ever done.
Teaching here has been the greatest pleasure because I have been privileged to command the trust of many of the people of Iraqi Kurdistan � be they Kurds or Arabs, Muslims or Christians, or others. This is a very broken culture in need of healing, and the existing educational system reflects that fact; but it is also a very rich culture blessed with great diversity of its peoples and traditions, and the hospitality extended to me as a teacher has been more generous than any I have ever previously known. The people of Iraqi Kurdistan deserve the best. If all of us � woman and man; student and teacher; master and servant; big and small - show enough skill, dedication and humility � we can have the best here.
Teaching here has been the hardest work because a commitment to true excellence in university education is a relatively new idea in Iraqi Kurdistan. There are many problems � cultural and organisational, as well as educational. There is always room for improvement in any human endeavour. If all of us � woman and man; student and teacher; master and servant; big and small - show enough skill, dedication and humility � we can have the best here.
I wish SABIS University and Iraqi Kurdistan well.
[And just so you know that I am real - warts and all - you can check out http://youtu.be/YTfdSVJojKc ] |
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babur
Joined: 10 Aug 2010 Posts: 178 Location: Dammam, Saudi Arabia
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2012 10:10 am Post subject: SABIS INC. |
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Teaching at SABIS University in Erbil has been the greatest pleasure and privilege of my life; it has also been the hardest job that I have ever done.
Teaching here has been the greatest pleasure because I have been privileged to command the trust of many of the people of Iraqi Kurdistan � be they Kurds or Arabs, Muslims or Christians, or others. This is a very broken culture in need of healing, and the existing educational system reflects that fact; but it is also a very rich culture blessed with great diversity of its peoples and traditions, and the hospitality extended to me as a teacher has been more generous than any I have ever previously known. The people of Iraqi Kurdistan deserve the best. If all of us � woman and man; student and teacher; master and servant; big and small - show enough skill, dedication and humility � we can have the best here.
Teaching here has been the hardest work because a commitment to true excellence in university education is a relatively new idea in Iraqi Kurdistan. There are many problems � cultural and organisational, as well as educational. There is always room for improvement in any human endeavour. If all of us � woman and man; student and teacher; master and servant; big and small - show enough skill, dedication and humility � we can have the best here.
I wish SABIS University and Iraqi Kurdistan well. |
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The author is either employed by SABIS or extremely gullible. SABIS are widely regarded as being a cult. Their teacher training can best be described as indoctrination. SABIS puppets (teachers) are forced to dance to the music or leave the stage. "sabis stinks" a website set up by former teachers, was taken down. SABIS is an "organisation" not an educational institution. |
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crewmeal1
Joined: 08 Jul 2010 Posts: 75
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:01 am Post subject: |
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Judging by that video I'd say they were more than good friends!! |
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veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA
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Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2012 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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a commitment to true excellence in university education |
In all my years here and in the Middle East, it is the first time I have ever heard a phrase like that in a post related to Sabis.
But, the sentence around it does seem to carefully not actually claim that Sabis is delivering such a thing.
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scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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SABIS has a poor reputation |
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DedicatedTeacher
Joined: 11 Dec 2010 Posts: 10
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 5:40 am Post subject: |
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I could get real nasty here, but I will withhold. If it sounds overly positive about SABIS it is probably propaganda. SABIS will promote people for writing stuff like this. That is all I will say. |
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madrileno
Joined: 19 Aug 2010 Posts: 270 Location: Salalah, Oman
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Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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Notice the OP only made one post.... And that was to post a glowing account of SABIS accompanied by a YouTube video praising the place.
Definitely an advertisement. |
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safarer30
Joined: 12 Jul 2009 Posts: 41
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