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[sheikher]

With reference to page 24 of Report Concerning University Canada West, Al Shabaka Training Establishment and the English Language Preparatory Program at King Faisal University Al Hassa, 7 February 2009 -- a corruption report commissioned by Crown Prince Naif, Minister of Interior -- concluding remarks state:

"It would serve the best interests of the ELPP if recruitment and management of foreign teachers, and curriculum selection and implementation, were the direct, singular, responsibility of competent KFU personnel. Recent experience demonstrates that the �middle-men�--one here in Al-Hasa and the other a team of financially struggling UCW consultants--are using nefarious means by which to secure teachers and maintain their residency, and additionally implement curriculum inappropriate to the academic needs and cultural proclivities of the students. Indeed, one UCW consultant may well have consciously and deliberately violated, or displayed disrespect, for Sharia law."

"...Recent reports in the media indicate that KSA�s education sector is to receive a considerable increase in funding as an impetus to achieve world-class education. Part of the parcel, necessarily, is to accommodate the national, and global, flavor of the month: English language acquisition. The Gulf is generally considered to be a boon opportunity, a lucrative market for ESL teachers seeking alternatives from their existing overseas postings. Indeed, Saudi Arabia may well experience within the next few years a considerable influx of foreign teachers presently dissatisfied with low salaries and atrocious working conditions primarily in China, Taiwan, Thailand and Korea. Teacher recruitment agents, and consortiums with overseas institutions, will abound. I have no doubt that many will attempt, as so many already do, to circumvent regulations to their own pecuniary advantage. I trust that the Government of Saudi Arabia seeks to engage more effective proactive measures to monitor and enforce Government statutory law."

Attention: Ministry of Higher Education. HELLO?

[veiledsentiments]

Do we really need all these threads on the same place????????

If your intention is to help future applicants to avoid the place, put it all on ONE thread so that it comes up easily in a search.

VS

[scot47]

It is not clear what the OP wants to convey or to achieve by saying it.
If he is in dispute with the university and expects the Ministry to side with him in the dispute, he is, at best delusional.

Often happens to foreigners in Saudi Arabia. It is known to specialists as "Marbles, Loss of."

[Sheikh N Bake]

And they're boring, all four of them. Enough already.

[sauditeacher]

OP, should not this:

"It would serve the best interests of the ELPP...for Sharia law.

be this:

"It would serve the best interests of the ELPP...for Sharia law."?

Being unfamiliar with the Report and with your style of writing meant that I wasn't quite sure where the quote ended and where your original input resumed.

[Mia Xanthi]

I would just like to repeat the requests for the OP to just give it up. Nothing is less convincing on this board that multiple rambling posts by someone who obviously has a personal grudge against a particular institution. You've made your grudge very, very clear, so let it go and hope that others will get the message. When you keep posting, you just make all of us think you're a few fries short of a Happy Meal.

[Never Ceased To Be Amazed]

That being said, OP...jes' 41 thread starts until you can post an avatar!!!

Gambatte, ne!?!

NCTBA