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[Old Dog]

Maybe some of you will be offered a position at this school in Changzhou via Coco <[email protected]> or Teresa of that organization.

The school is described as a Singapore-based educational organization "to conduct the South Australian Matriculation (SAM) [course].

They are offering a salary of 5,000 to 6500 RMB per month to teach this course. No further info. is provided as to whether this would be for a 10 month contract or for a 12 month contract.

Be aware that if schools teach Australian state syllabuses under licence, they will be charging students the same level of fees as the students would pay if they attended a High School in Australia. This is worth thinking about since they are asking for teachers registered with Australian Teacher Registration authorities. Registered teachers teaching those syllabuses to students in Australia will be receiving a minimum of 210,000 RMB per year (and I'm probably quite out of date regarding beginning teacher salaries) . The company hopes to charge Australian fees yet to fork out only from between 50,000 RMB and 75,000 RMB per year (depending upon agreed salary level and length of contract) plus air fare.

For myself, when a Chinese school charges its students Australian-level fees, they should be paying their staff Australian-level wages as would occur in JV schools. These people must think that, among the registered teaching community, there's a fool born every minute - unless they are hoping to recruit the absolutely unemployable in Australia.

Can you imagine it? A teacher completes a degree in Australia, is trained as a teacher, is registered with an Australian accreditation authority, can earn a minimum of 210,000 per annum in Australia teaching in areas of teacher shortage and would give it all up to come to China, teach the same syllabuses to rich escapees from the Chinese Senior School system and be happy with a max. of 75,000 for his/her efforts!

But, each to his own, maybe this will seem fine to well-qualified, registered teachers.

[Spiderman Too]

Old Dog

If you think that�s outrageous (or incredulous), check out the job ad below.

An Australian doctor working for 6 � 7,000 RMB per month???? The advertiser probably also believes in the tooth fairy.

[millie]

SAM is offered outside of SA in a number of locations including China. I am not aware the board employs teachers directly (though it may). However, I do know that the recruiting agents in Australia would not dare to offer such a low figure as is mentioned.

Spider-person 2’s note above is as equally unbelievable.

Only in China

[ChinaEFLteacher]

maybe some people are so rich that they'd like to help others become equally as rich. there are even some who'll pay to come and volunteer to help some people here become rich. they should be venerated as great philanthropists!

[Roger]

You can all whine about the low salaries you get even from an Australian-type school; I personally would love to work for a school with a western-type syllabus THAT ALSO offers me professional and moral support in my dealings with local students.

There are plenty of Chinese parents that actually can afford to enroll their progeny at expensive private colleges; they also expect to get somewthing in return for their money, but they won't accept your opinion on the performance of their darling son/daughter!
When you have to stand your ground vis-a-vis the principal of a school, professionalism and teacher solidarity are the most precious commodities second to nothign else, with the money following a distant third place!