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[globalnomad2]

I worked for HCT for 5 years and find nothing bizarre or incredible about the rumors, especially the 25-hour teaching load. Come teach at George Mason in RAK, with 18 X 50 minutes per week, with a possibility of fewer hours later. On-campus villas will come after 2 or 3 years. Diverse international student body. No factory foreman-type line supervisors. Academic faculty must have PhDs, they teach 12 hours max and get paid American academic salaries. Need I say more?

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[ckhl]

ckhl requires no defending

Mais comme vous etes gentil (gentille?). J'apprecie les responses intelligentes, celles qui lancent des defis qui se justifient.
Je vous en remericie tout de meme.

[Shakhbut]

hhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[ckhl]

Negativity breeds contempt.


Isn't it also "familiarity breeds contempt"? Something to keep in mind at the HCT.

[globalnomad2]

Change may be inevitable, but negative change does not always have to be passively accepted as normal.

[like2answer]

It does at many businesses in the UAE... people in power like to keep the power. People who speak out then lose everything - home, job, friends, children's school... that keeps many mouths shut.

Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely - Lord Acton

[veiledsentiments]

[globalnomad2]

Colleges and universities in the U.S. are not run in quite that Victorian business-sector fashion and certainly not like Middle East universities. If you take your average American state university, whether flagship or regional, and compare it to HCT, there really is no comparison; the latter is more like a community college that shouldn't be accredited.

[globalnomad2]

Somebody ought to take a second, hard look at the software here, because it "beep"-ed my reference to Charles D., the author of Great Expectations, etc. etc.! Can you believe that?

[globalnomad2]

Veiled--I agree, however, that ESL in the US is the pits. Pretty good here at George Mason now, though.

[veiledsentiments]

Glad to hear that GMU in RAK seems to be getting their act together.

I wasn't trying to compare HCT to US universities, but that the lack of employment protection between the US and the UAE is not that different. Unless you are one of those rare individuals who is part of a union, your protection here is little better as a professional - be it education or business or whatever.

VS

[globalnomad2]

Veiled--but in our home countries, there is such thing as a tenure track position in fields other than teaching intensive ESL. When we travel overseas, whether it be Japan or the Middle East or wherever, tenure-track positions are rare. Whereas a really good foreign professor can get on the tenure track in the US.

[veiledsentiments]

No ESL teacher EVER gets tenure... that requires a PhD... and wasta...

Education is totally going down the drain as a profession in the US...

VS