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[hansell]

Has anyone heard about teaching jobs in Yunnan Province in either Lijiang or Dali, North of Kunming??

Please share if you know of, or have heard anything in these cities at all. I would like to live/teach in either of these cities for a couple years, but they are smaller towns so I am unsure of the employment situation there.

Please inform.

I have lived/ taught in Guangzhou for a couple years, if you have any questions about that city.

Thanks alot!!

Marc (Hansell)

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[bendan]

I saw a job advertised on the wall of a cafe in Lijiang when I was there last year. It was with a language school in Kunming, but the work was in Lijiang. Afraid I can't remember who it was, but it does suggest there are jobs there. There was also an American with a full-time job as an in-house instructor at the five star hotel in Lijiang.

[Volodiya]

I've seen ads for both university and language school work, but only the unis published their salaries. Kunming unis offer 3500/mo; unis in Dali offered 2500/mo. Both offered some kind of accomodations. (Apparently, smaller cities, smaller salaries, like everywhere.)

[The ads for uni jobs were for the fall term, 2005; and, the first university degree was a minimum qualification.]

If you want to work in Yunnan Province, it looks like there will be a trade-off on pay....

[deezy]

I've just come back from Dali and Lijiang, but I didn't see any sign of EFL positions available there. However, you might get some private work as the tourism industry there is really hotting up, and the businesses - hotels, restaurants, shops, see the need for English. I even spent a little time teaching some waiters some English while I was drinking my beer and got a free meal for my efforts!

I don't think there'd be much money to be made...but the scenery would be great to look at in your spare time!

Volodiya lives in that area, so would know more about the prospects for teaching.