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[ling ling]

Can anyone please tell me when the thai uni holidays traditionally are?

I couldn't face the prospect of getting off the plane and have to wait three months on a tropical beach for school to resume!

Seriously though what have people found to be the norm for employment during these I'm supposing lengthy breaks. Do all the universities, rajabhat institutes and private schools share the same holiday periods creating scenes of unemployed foreign teachers busking for a living?

JospehP if your about, thanks for your prev help. Was wondering if you could tell me if Rajabhat paid for any expenses duriing any holidays you might have taken.

Cheers muchly

[sigmoid]

The main summer holidays occur roughly about March to the end of May depending on the school. There is also a break in October.

Rajabhats and other unis should pay your salary during the breaks, [if not, don't accept the position] but they usually want you to teach a class or continue signing in. At the same time, you have ten days of leave and 15 sick days which you can request off. Also, you can miss three consecutive days without a doctor's excuse, so you can extend some of the numerous long weekends depending on your class schedule. So, for example, Monday is a holiday and you have no class on Friday or reschedule [cancel] it due to student demand, come and sign in then jump on the train to wherever then return on Wednesday assuming you have have no class on Tuesday.

[JosephP]

Sigmoid has covered your query quite accurately. Remember, it is in your own interest to learn to "massage" the system.
Choke dee.

[ling ling]

"Massage" you say.

That's a word I don't want to hear for a while having very recently had surgery after a massage went terribly wrong in Ba Na San last year. But that's a totally different story

Thanks for the insight and help Sigmoid & JosephP

[Sheep-Goats]

There are usually four months or so in the summer where there are no classes, but they give you one month off (April -- when it's too hot to do anything but leave the country) and expect you to punch the clock and do nothing for the other three. Yes. Punch a clock.

Because university pay is also shitty, they generally need teachers year round just like a language school does. Also, English is currently a very popular thing to do in the summer for Thai kids (who will generally tell you that on weekends they like to "go to shopping, sleeping, and enjoy with friend") and if your university doesn't have more work in the summer than it does during the term I would be suprised.