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veiledsentiments
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That rather overlaps with my time living and visiting in AD, and I gotta tell ya... most of the AD people whinged a bit about how the folks in Dubai were still often getting villas... (none of us did except a few families who kicked in some of their own money)... and Al Ain got villas... and those in RAK got all their appliances provided for free... even a washer and dryer. We got an empty flat and the same furniture allowance... but still, 90% of them were nice, but not luxury IMHO. (though all of them were nicer or at least bigger than the places I could afford in the US...) The attitude of the AD people was that we were then at the bottom of the barrel for HCT housing. We TEFLers can always come up with something to complain about... it's a skill...
I don't know one teacher who had a luxury flat on the Corniche... though I could see it a block or so away - between the high rises - from my place which happened to be in an older building which I chose because I wasn't happy with the two new places they showed me. Management had luxury places like that and villas... but not us mere teachers.
All is relative, of course... 
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I said late 90s and early 2000s, not mid-90s... that would be - explicitly - 1998-2002.
I also said Al Ain (not AD) got villas, and teachers I knew got luxury (with gym + pool) apartments on the corniche in AD.
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veiledsentiments
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Yes, that is why I said "visited" as I was in and out of AD a number of times from '99 through '01 visiting with various friends at HCT. I was only in one corniche view flat and she was management... though she had previously been a teacher. Even my older building had a swimming pool on the roof, but that doesn't define a luxury building to me. But, if it does to you... I guess I should have felt much more privileged than I did.
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veiledsentiments
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The best is AUS, but it hires very few teachers every year because it is one campus and people don't leave if they can avoid it. HCT may hire 200 teachers in a year and AUS will hire 2. There are almost no posts here from AUS teachers.
ZU has only a couple campuses, so it doesn't hire massive numbers and UAEU is big, but only one campus. Anyone have any idea of how many teachers they hire each year? |
I do feel odd quoting myself, but I just got a PM from someone who is unable to get beyond the dreaded "invalid session" message to make a post. The news from UAEU is that UGRU has normally hired about 20 teachers a year... which placed it interestingly between the 200 and 2 numbers I gave above. 
But this year is rather unique in that only 5 were hired... and some of those were past employees returning. They got a nice raise lately and it's helping retention. There are supposed to be 2 or 3 new teachers starting at second semester.
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