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melbourne86
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 Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 7:56 am Post subject: New job with Sabis in Oman |
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Hi all,
I am heading to Muscat in August for new semester with Sabis. Anyone have any information regarding the school in Muscat?. Any other teachers heading there around this time?  |
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MuscatGary
Joined: 03 Jun 2013
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Location: Flying around the ME...
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| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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| If you mean the Choueifat school then I've only heard bad reports. It's run like a military base, if the childeren perform badly then they, and YOU have to stay late. All of the teachers from there who I've met have left after one year and sometimes less. |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2014 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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This employer has a consistently bad reputation all over the Middle East. Professional teachers with any experience will hate their horrible system. (test, teach to the test, test, and then we do exams) For teachers, it is all about paperwork and following every rule to the letter by ticking all boxes. There is certainly a variation in conditions from management, but a read around at the attack blogs for this organization points out that treatment of teachers is highly dependent on your passport... (helps if you are Lebanese... or related)
If you just finished your degree and have never taught a class before, it might be useful as that first job... and consider it a chance to work on your classroom management skills... and have something to put on the CV when you escape. That said, other employers will not be positively impressed that you have this institution as your experience - you would need to emphasize that you know their limitations and are eager to teach at a better place.
BTW... the positive reviews that you see are usually from the parents. Arab parents like it because they get plenty of grades to look at... (and, of course, the grades are always high) and they appear to think that memorizing and regurgitating stuff on tests is the proper way to "learn."
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CVN-76
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nomad soul
Joined: 31 Jan 2010
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Location: The real world
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 4:50 am Post subject: Re: New job with Sabis in Oman |
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| melbourne86 wrote: |
| I am heading to Muscat in August for new semester with Sabis. Anyone have any information regarding the school in Muscat? |
It's always best to research the employer before even contemplating applying for a position.
Good luck. |
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CVN-76
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| Indeed. Especially with the 2-year rule being enforced now. I'm not sure how one would be affected who changed his mind after getting a work visa but before he set foot in the country. One may be able to do it without any problem. One may have to wait 2 years on the next visa. |
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Whatever will be
Joined: 05 Feb 2014
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 9:14 am Post subject: |
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CVN-76
The expat visa laws will be enforced as of 1 July so there are still a few short weeks to sort out the situation - all is not lost yet!
Besides, if the visa is only issued by the recruitment agency to be picked up at the airport upon arrival (the usual procedure), then there is nothing in the teacher's passport yet - it is still "clean".
Accepting another offer from a different company and entering Oman on their sponsored visa is an option to consider. |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2014 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Whatever will be wrote: |
| Accepting another offer from a different company and entering Oman on their sponsored visa is an option to consider. |
Most likely not true because the passport will be assigned to the previous visa, so the Ministry will not assign a second visa to that same passport. That has always been true. Even if you change your mind after they have begun the visa process, you are out of luck for that year in Oman. That has happened to people in the past.
You would have to "wash" the passport - ie - get a new passport. They wouldn't have any fingerprints or anything on file.
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Whatever will be
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Well, passports get stolen or lost all the time  |
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