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[Robenhiano]

Are all managers bad there? And what about the staff? Do many quit? Or do they protest?

[Robenhiano]

FROM Economics Job Market Rumors:

"I just heard that while the salary is on a British standard, the pension for anyone who is disabled due to a work place accident is equal to Chinese average salary, which you can't survive on anywhere else than in China.

And that the grievance system is biased, which means that the managers never lose. They get support from people at University of Nottingham in UK, who provide biased grievance investigations..."

[muffintop]

Is injury at the workplace a real concern for teachers?

[Robenhiano]

According to Economics Job Market Rumors:

"The salary is not that bad but on the other hand there is no pension in it. And it's a not that safe place. When I was interviewed I met several people there with crutches. They told me that the work environment is so so (really bad, actually) and that you get no support whatsoever if anything happens to you. If you don't get well quickly they may even try to get rid of you."

"The place is under Chinese law but according to some people I spoke to they do not even follow these laws. It's total anarchy and the managers there do what they wish without running the risk that anything happens to them. It's a lawless place."

[vikeologist]

So it's like a mixture of ESL teaching and extreme sports?

[Denim-Maniac]

It sounds a little like a bunch of pampered, overpaid politically correct university lecturers have found themselves in Ningbo and expect everything to run in the exact same way it does in the UK.

When I worked in a HE college in the UK, I brought a CD player in to use for a listening track in one class ... I was duly informed that I couldnt use it until it had undergone an electrical check and been deemed safe to use. Naturally, and thankfully, such pettiness and adherence to even silly rules doesnt apply here

Id bet for most of us Nottingham Ningbo would be a decent place to work!

[muffintop]

[choudoufu]

[Robenhiano]

[quote="Denim-Maniac"]It sounds a little like a bunch of pampered, overpaid politically correct university lecturers have found themselves in Ningbo and expect everything to run in the exact same way it does in the UK.

So you suggest that those who work at a British University in China must expect getting disabled from some broken bones, getting no or small compensation and that this and the bad conditions are supported by false investigations from the university in UK? Who are you - a top manager at University of Nottingham?

[muffintop]

How the hell are people breaking their bones at work?

[choudoufu]

[Robenhiano]

choudoufu,

Do you have any reason in specific to believe that University of Nottingham Ningbo is a safe and good place?

[muffintop]

[Robenhiano]

No, not at all. It was supposed to be a question. I understand and respect your critique of how I was arguing, and was now wondering whether your skepticism purely was a reaction to my way or arguing or whether you also have some other arguments pointing in another direction than what I was arguing?

[muffintop]