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[therock]

[Volodiya]

It's probably worth re-stating that a university degree and two year's teaching experience have been the requirements for foreign teachers, as set forth by the State Administration for Foreign Expert Affairs, for a long time. This is a minimum requirement for the issuance of the Foreign Expert Certificate. To this requirement, exceptions have been made in the past, by the local authorities, on occasion.

Those expressing alarm that their non-degreed colleagues are having trouble getting officially documented to live and work, in China, may simply have not understood that this is to be expected- as it is the legal norm, to which exceptions are sometimes granted.

If local authorities become more reluctant to issue documents to those without degrees, it will exacerbate the teacher shortage in those areas where teachers are already scarce, in those areas where exceptions were being made because of it. Whether this is actually happening, remains to be established, as I see it.
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In China, as in many other countries around the world, large numbers of FTs live and work, long-term, without the documentation referred to on this thread.
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Clomper, the RPF is typically issued after the FEC is approved- the former granting permission to work; the later, permission to live, in China. So, the issue for some of those you refer to, who have not received an RPF, may be their lack of apparent qualifications for the FEC.

[bjwellgo8]