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Hatcher · Joined: 20 Mar 2008 Posts: 602

They have ads up on other sites... does anyone work for them?
KNow anything about them?

doogsville · Joined: 17 Nov 2011 Posts: 924 Location: China

If it's the campus in Zhuhai, you may get some useful information from the Zhuhai expat sites or the Zhuhai expat group on Facebook. You're more likely to come across teachers or ex teachers there.

www.deltabridges.com
www.zhuhainights.com

Simon in Suzhou · Joined: 09 Aug 2011 Posts: 404 Location: GZ

I worked there 4 years ago. It was generally a decent place. Could do better, could do worse. The students were wonderful and had a much high level of English fluency than at most Chinese unis. A weird contract in which they paid you by the hour, and you ONLY got paid for your teaching hours. You got NOTHING for ANY holidays or vacations. Always straight up about the pay and no problems in this area. The pay is higher than average for folks with a Master's or PHD, not so great if you work it out for a B.A.

There was a big push to have teachers teach academic classes in addition to just oral English, which added to the workload considerably for no extra pay (large lecture classes, weekly homework to correct, real exams).

They built new apartments for teachers a couple years ago, and it was quite a stir when the teachers had to move into much smaller places- essentially hotel rooms with a small kitchen. I'm not sure the feeling about that now.

It's a lovely, peaceful campus in the countryside. There is a high speed train stop on campus which connects you to GZ and the Macau border.

tlkdmc · Joined: 31 Mar 2015 Posts: 51

I visited the campus while traveling through the area. I would never work there. It's like a mountain monastery. Contract is per hour with no real guarantee of hours. I have post-post-graduate professional degree. which was worth only 500 RMB more basically when it comes to per hour. No vacation, holiday, support, etc. Apartments are a joke. They are a backpacker university with backpacker teachers. The require foreigners only to satisfy their accreditation requirements. Stay away from this school.

doogsville · Joined: 17 Nov 2011 Posts: 924 Location: China

teenoso · Joined: 18 Sep 2013 Posts: 365 Location: south china

I was there before they opened the high-speed rail station near the campus and found the place very isolated and annoying - the buses took ages to get downtown and were full of students. Zhuhai is a nice city but in reality it is 40 minutes away, at least. Around the campus is a golf course, other unis and very little else. The new rail link should have improved things, but it would be worth checking how often the trains stop at the campus station.

As another poster says, the joint venture campus on BNU was run separately from BNUZ itself , and that probably means all the terms and conditions (including the accommodation) are different . My impression too was that the foreign teachers at the joint venture were better looked after than those at BNUZ.

Because of problems with the new accommodation block, some teachers lived off-campus about 20 minutes away in Tangjiawan , where there was a decent supermarket, and a Brit-run bar (opinions vary).

canrun30 · Joined: 03 Oct 2012 Posts: 116

I enjoyed my time there. Left to open my own school; no more no less. I would highly recommend HKBU, but they have changed some things since I left in 2013, so continue to check around. PM me if you'd like info that was current as of 2013.