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naturegirl321
Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:52 am Post subject: IELTS and examining in Romania? |
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Are there opportunities to do this in Romania to earn extra income? I know that in some countries, like China, teachers can nearly double their salary. |
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Sashadroogie
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 11061 Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 11:46 am Post subject: |
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Rates of pay are quite low, from what I hear. No doubling of salaries, unless the salaries are already breadline level. Could be wrong, but that is what my colleagues in Russia who've been there tell me. |
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naturegirl321
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Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2011 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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HOw low is low? |
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Sashadroogie
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 11061 Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 10:56 am Post subject: |
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In Russia it's about 4 or 5 euro per test. Less in Rumania, so I hear. You'd have to be doing a lot of tests to make a tidy sum, but at a maximum of 4 tests per hour, you'd be hard pressed to double your salary. Though maybe Rumanian salaries are worse than I have heard... |
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naturegirl321
Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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Sashadroogie wrote: |
In Russia it's about 4 or 5 euro per test. Less in Rumania, so I hear. You'd have to be doing a lot of tests to make a tidy sum, but at a maximum of 4 tests per hour, you'd be hard pressed to double your salary. Though maybe Rumanian salaries are worse than I have heard... |
MOre than I made in Peru for Cambridge tests. |
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Sashadroogie
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 11061 Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:26 pm Post subject: |
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Cambridge has always paid less than IELTS. But then there are two examiners in Cambridge - so half the money! |
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naturegirl321
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:44 am Post subject: |
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Half the work too I guess IELTS would be a step up then in pay. |
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Sashadroogie
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 11061 Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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I dunno about the half the work part. Despite having a co-examiner, I found Cambridge testing just as trying as IELTS. Too many finicky bits of paper to be shuffled and filled in. Too many folders of materials to be flipped open at the appropriate juncture etc. The same travelling time and expense to the test centre. The same hassles extracting payment due.
Big yawn after the first couple of hundred tests.... |
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scot47
Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:09 am Post subject: |
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That reflects my experience with IELTS. I did it in Bahrain and Khobar for a while before deciding that "Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle."
It impressed my colleagues though. |
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Sashadroogie
Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 11061 Location: Moskva, The Workers' Paradise
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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 4:30 am Post subject: |
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That is such a wonderfully diplomatic phrase! Ah, French, eh? My own expression of how unworthwhile it all is involves a rather more earthy phrase involving the word 'pot' and an Anglo-Saxon word for micturition. |
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ReachingOut
Joined: 12 Aug 2011 Posts: 8
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Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2012 7:44 am Post subject: |
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The British Council are always looking for examiners, but the catch is that they will only hire you if you can issue a receipt, which will be a problem if you are working as a teacher and don't have your own business. |
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