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feenix
Joined: 27 Jan 2004
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Location: Kuwait
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 Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:41 am Post subject: Can anyone recommend a good university to teach English at? |
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| I will be coming to Thailand soon and would like to teach English at a university. I have 20 years experience (14 teaching university), an M.A., CELTA, and lots of other dips. and certs. The salary is not as important as a good working environment (colleagues, students, and employers) and adequate facilities (library, office, Internet access, and housing). I realize no place is tops in everything, but can people who have taught at university in Thailand give me any recommended places, say on a scale of 1-10? |
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Sheep-Goats
Joined: 16 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 7:41 am Post subject: Re: Can anyone recommend a good university to teach English |
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| feenix wrote: |
| I will be coming to Thailand soon and would like to teach English at a university. I have 20 years experience (14 teaching university), an M.A., CELTA, and lots of other dips. and certs. The salary is not as important as a good working environment (colleagues, students, and employers) and adequate facilities (library, office, Internet access, and housing). I realize no place is tops in everything, but can people who have taught at university in Thailand give me any recommended places, say on a scale of 1-10? |
Chulalongkorn is tops in everything (especially facilities). Thammasat is second. Bangkok University is third. Mahidol is fourth. Chiang Mai Univeristy is perhaps fifth. Silapakorn University sixth (but only if you're "arty").
They may not need you right now. In which case you're left with dregs.
Salaries will be abysmal across the board -- I mean, you could make double your salary anywhere else. Most people with your qualifications work as lower administrators for a Thai high school's English program. Because salaries are so low your colleagues will likely not have 1/10th of your qualifications (though they may have a good deal more EFL experience than you) and many will be whoring jerkasses who got "rich" in Saudi Arabia and are taking the negatives of that place out on Thailand. Administrators were often education part-timers back in the states before their business when bankrupt or before they got divorced.
If you're getting near 60 you'll have a neigh impossible time getting hired by any of the government schools (Bangkok University is the only private on the above list) as 60 is the mandatory governmental retirement age. Also be aware that there are enough well-qualified teachers living here that you may (and may not) be in competiton with MA TESOL holders for the better spots at the universities I named -- so if you want to teach English and have an unrelated qualification and non-directly related experience (eg: not EFL) and no publications in the field you may be in for a tougher run than you think. If you want to teach in a non-English field you'll find that the Thais pretty zealously guard them -- though nothing's impossible.
You'll hear this kind of stuff said a lot about Thailand -- but it's really true that the more expeirenced people here rarely stick around in the universities -- whatever their reasons.
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feenix
Joined: 27 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2004 8:03 am Post subject: well . . . |
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By soon I meant in April to do a good job search. I got "rich" in Kuwait, which is probably the same as Saudi Arabia in most people's eyes, but I wouldn't classify myself as a whoring jackass 
Thanks for your advice. It was exactly what I needed. BTW tell me more about that high-school admin thing  |
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Sheep-Goats
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| Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2004 6:28 am Post subject: Re: well . . . |
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| feenix wrote: |
| BTW tell me more about that high-school admin thing |
If can specify what it is you want to know I can try to answer your question. |
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