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No Moss
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 Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:57 am Post subject: Chinese New Year Wednesday Feb 9 2005 |
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| Make those plane reservations now, folks. |
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oprah
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| Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 3:31 pm Post subject: |
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| THANKS.. I have been asking about this date, everyone just kept saying January or February// How long is the holiday?? |
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limits601
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:29 am Post subject: |
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| Awesome news. Thanks a bunch |
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ContemporaryDog
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:44 am Post subject: |
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| I take it this means that the holiday will be a bit longer this year? |
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quanxie
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:48 am Post subject: |
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Now the question is when will the semester end? I know that most universities are a little different. But, last year both of the terms at my school were 18 weeks long with 1 week of prep and 1 week of finals. I have a feeling this term will be longer, maybe 20 weeks long and 1 week of finals. This means the vacation will start Friday January 8th. If this is true it will be a nice long vacation of 7 weeks...  But none of the other teachers or students seem to mind not knowing when it will start.
I will make my reservations soon and if they make the semester longer so be it...
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Chris_Crossley
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
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Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:31 am Post subject: Longer holidays? Not necessarily.... |
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| ContemporaryDog wrote: |
| I take it this means that the holiday will be a bit longer this year? |
Only if you teach at a public institution. If you teach at a private one, then you are looking only at seven days off at best, starting on February 9th itself and ending on the 15th. Public institutions should be on holiday for at least a couple of weeks before the Spring Festival starts, so I reckon that my primary school's winter holiday may start from the afternoon of Friday, January 14th.
So, while the people who teach at public schools can relax and go off on vacation, the people who teach at private schools will have their workload go through the roof as the kids (a lot of them unwillingly) descend upon them for intensive courses lasting two or three weeks. I should know, because I had two years' worth of winter (and summer) peak-season teaching. I'm glad that, at this time, I work full time for a public institution!
As for what I am going to do in the holiday, I haven't the foggiest idea yet. My baby daughter will be nearly 10 months old by then, but perhaps she will still be a little too young to the subject to the rigours of long-distance travel. |
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Spiderman Too
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 4:40 am Post subject: |
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| The 20-week term at the government university where I work commenced on September 6 and ends on January 28. The exact commencement date of the new term has yet to be announced, but I figure on February 28. |
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kev7161
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 5:11 am Post subject: |
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Only if you teach at a public institution. If you teach at a private one, then you are looking only at seven days off at best, starting on February 9th itself and ending on the 15th.
Why do you say this? Last year I taught at a private school (the same one I teach for now) and I started my winter vacation on December 28th and wasn't required back until February 1st. I don't remember the exact date for the New Year last year, near the end of January I believe. So, I received more than a month off at full pay. I'm guessing it will be similar this year. |
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Roger
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 6:03 am Post subject: |
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| kev7161 wrote: |
Only if you teach at a public institution. If you teach at a private one, then you are looking only at seven days off at best, starting on February 9th itself and ending on the 15th.
Why do you say this? Last year I taught at a private school (the same one I teach for now) and I started my winter vacation on December 28th and wasn't required back until February 1st. I don't remember the exact date for the New Year last year, near the end of January I believe. So, I received more than a month off at full pay. I'm guessing it will be similar this year. |
KEvin buddy,
this is, perhaps, the time to read the fine print in your contract - if you signed any.
It might have a clause that defines your holidays. If not, you get no holidays.
As a matter of common fact, training centres pay you only on a handful of holidays - often the bare national minimum, i.e. ten days spread over the whole year!
If you have a more generous employer, congrats! |
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kev7161
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 9:03 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, mine's pretty good. Let's see, a week + 2 days off for National Holiday (full pay), a week + 2 days off the beginning of November for the "Fall" Holiday (only in Hangzhou, I've been told) and the school Sports Meet at the end of October, "X" amount for the New Year's/Winter Holiday (again, I'm guessing it will be akin to last year, but I haven't checked 'for sure'), and then the May Holiday which will be at least a week (last year it was two weeks off). That's at least two months of HOLIDAY in a 10 month contract. I may have my varied complaints against this school, but generous holidays is not one of them! |
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Chris_Crossley
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
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Location: Still in the centre of Furnace City, PRC, after eight years!!!
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| Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 9:51 am Post subject: Long holidays? You're lucky! |
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| kev7161 wrote: |
| That's at least two months of HOLIDAY in a 10 month contract. I may have my varied complaints against this school, but generous holidays is not one of them! |
You certainly seem to have a generous private-sector employer, Kev. When I worked for EF in Wuhan, the typical "holiday" was, indeed, just a week off for each National Holiday, plus two days off for Christmas Day and New Year's Day, plus one's own two-week entitlement if one signed a contract for 12 months. The rest of the time we were expected to work, work, work.
My public primary school, on the other hand, is generous inasmuch as teachers get paid for 11 months for doing 38 weeks' work, including two months for the summer vacation when they might not even have to be in the school at all, so that is certainly a massive improvement on EF, in my opinion.
While true that the salary at the public school is lower than what I used to get at EF, there is much less stress there and much more holiday time (plus that extra month's pay), so I have no regrets about making the move. |
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lagerlout2006
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| Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 8:35 am Post subject: |
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| My holidays were similar to Kev's last winter..(A private boarding school that took the public days. I know training centers are different.) Also factor in that FT's were excused at test and exam times and it's 2 more months-June and December roughly. That school even had their own brreaks. Oh and some of September was free for orientation. I recall adding it up and seeing FT's taught about 5-5.5 of the 10 months. I'm surprised they don't design an 8 or 9 month contract but it may not be legal. 3 Lunar days seem beside the point there. |
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