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Extraordinary Rendition · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject:

Sorry, again it's academic (pun intended), but what do you mean,

007 · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject:

Extraordinary Rendition · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject:

VS has not indicated feeling any need to teach in Afghanistan, be it to women or otherwise. VS was simply responding to my inquiry about the American University's opaque recruitment and hiring process. It seems to me that any gratuitous innuendos should be benignly ignored.

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Another 'helpful' post from 007. Rolling Eyes

Actually I did look into that internet job with the Afghan women, but we are in the wrong time zones. Teachers in Australia or New Zealand are better located.

As to the employers wanting single status, it is for purely selfish reasons I would guess. It is cheaper if there are no problems and significantly cheaper if there are.

VS

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 3:48 am Post subject:

Neil McBeath · Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 277 Location: Saudi Arabia

Yet again, a fairly basic questions seems to have been hijacked and has degenerated into a slanging match.

Two points. Single status is probably being offered because the university is short of accommodation, or short of accommodation that could be offered to families. It could mean that you will be offered a study bedroom with en suite toilet, and central messing facilities. It could mean that you are expected to share a flat or small villa with another employee. Either way, these are not conditions in which a family can be expected to be comfortable.

Single status also means that the university is responsible for transporting only ONE person in and out of Afghanistan, and that it takes no responsibility for school fees, additional medical costs etc.

I doubt, however, that the university is segregated. In The Bookseller of Kabul, Leila goes off to a local, Afghan run Institute and is horrified to discover that it is NOT segregated. She never returns, specifically because their are boys in the class.

If that is the situation at private institutes I would suggest that it's fair to assume that the university is also mixed.

Extraordinary Rendition · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 9:43 am Post subject:

I looked at this thread in the first place only because I had noticed the posting on this site a couple of weeks ago for the American University job and thought at the time they were probably paying pretty well (understatement, I thought they were probably paying very well). After reading about the 'single' status only, I started to wonder why that would be; it seemed to me that the last thing they'd want would be a single male, for obvious reasons (better state them, before someone misinterprets: drinking and/or possible flirtation with a local). So I asked. I didn't intend to hijack the thread, and I apologize if that is how my post was interpreted.

Sadebugo · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 524

Extraordinary Rendition · Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 3:05 pm Post subject:

Vietnam. Ask the Russians, and they weren't halfway across the globe. (This, however, is not to question the legality, wisdom, or morality of invading a sovereign nation harboring a criminal who has himself admitted conspiring to commit a heinous crime, while never addressing, or even publicly discussing, the root causes of such crime. [Without addressing the root causes of crime, it can never be eliminated; a simplistic, imperfect example: Keep people in abject poverty and there will always be someone who will feel justified in stealing a loaf of bread, regardless of how that makes the baker feel, how others feel about it, or any potential consequences.] That discussion is for the thread on political correctness in the classroom.)