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[Epicticus]

Just to let you know that now that the cat is out of the bag, there are at least 8 teachers who will have their contracts terminated/not renewed soon for having fake degrees, qualifications and experiences they never had. I was informed this by someone very close to the Dean. At the moment there are a lot of teachers heading to their classes with very worried looks on their faces!

[Sleepwalker]

English teachers only or all lecturers/teachers?

This would be so unfair if it just applied to language staff as falsified qualifications are rumoured to be very common from a certain sub-continent.

[jdl]

Unfortunately, there is always opportunity for good con artist in ESL, as employer or employee.

[jdl]

Con, flim flam, swindle, grift, bunko, false pretense... is not limited by language, nationality or geography. All that a good con requires is enough confidence to 'pass oneself off'. A natural scam for a 'native speaker' would be to exagerate qualification in order to acquire employment in a ESL environment. A non native would have to 'up the ante' , not having the natural/native English language skills, by exagerating the paper qualification. As long as the artist is believable the con will work. Most must expect to be 'found out' eventually. Are we surprised that a good con artist can teach or appear to teach and inspire confidence? It is pre-requisite.

Ah well, there is always another mark to be had in another setting. Time to fold up the game and move on. MMMM.....maybe the time is better spent acquiring the qualification.

[angelfire]

There hasn't been any traffic on this thread for about 3 months. Can someone update the situation there?

[Eric Carlson]

As it's to the Hawthorn Agency's financial advantage to replace their complement of 'teachers' each year this is what invariably happens, without any reference of the qualifications or abilities of the teacher. Epicticus is well aware of this. Also a high proportion of staff resign.

Unfortunately, there are no checks of academic qualifications for this college, apart from a request for a scan. "Experiences" are another matter. The institutionalised long term staff thrive on malicious gossip, so a perfectly true statement made in conversation can be expanded into an epic tale of bizarre proportions.

It's not really to anyones credit to remain at Sohar College too long, rather a case of the lunatics taking over the asylum.

[Gazoo1000]

[Gazoo1000]