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babur
Joined: 10 Aug 2010
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Location: Dammam, Saudi Arabia
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 Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 5:37 pm Post subject: American University of Afghanistan |
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AUAF job advertisment
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EFL Instructor
American University of Afghanistan
The American University of Afghanistan is looking for qualified ESL/EFL staff to work in the Professional Development Unit.
The Professional Development Unit provides a variety of language and capacity building courses to NGO's, government ministries, embassies, and organisations in Afghanistan.
Applicants need to be experienced ESL/EFL instructors with a minimum of two years experience. Experience working overseas a must |
... but viewed from a local perspective:
Welcome to auaf�s "Professional Development Unit", the institution which takes Afghans to the cleaners by convincing them they need to learn western business speak (by taking "language and capacity building courses") in order to rebuild their country. Got two years ELT under your belt, join us, "make a difference", hop on the gravy chain and help yourself to some of the cash ladled out by �donor� countries.
According to my sources in Kabul, lizard�s 2008 comments still apply:
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If any of you consider yourselves to be professionals but don't listen to the warnings and join AUAF anyway... be prepared to be treated like the disposable EFL instructor that you are. You will be seen as just another instructor - one of many whom they feel they can easily recruit - and will be compensated as such. In fact, if you survive your first contract and think that you might want to stay for a second one, be prepared for a pay cut and fewer benefits to be offered to you... or you may be promised that a new contract is on the way for months and then get a 'thank you but goodbye' letter instead. Rather than keep the experienced professionals who want to stay, the management would rather bring in new faces who don't know the history of the institution.
Although few people may agree, Afghanistan is a great place to work. The students are amazingly wonderful and teaching them is both rewarding and frustrating. However, when your management is a group of non-academics who have not stepped foot in the classroom for 20-30 years, and they are making decisions based more upon finances than what is best for your students, the overall experience is more frustrating than anything else.
Money runs the world, it runs the rebuilding/aid efforts in Afghanistan, and it - along with the VP of Finance - runs AUAf. But be aware - as the lowly EFL teacher that you are, you won't be getting much of it. Lizard
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 |
And you'll no doubt still have to put up with cramped, shared accommodation and extortionately priced western supermarkets (one was levelled by a suicide bomber), which you will only be allowed to visit at prearranged times with an armed escort.
Afghanistan doesn't need foreign universities (where teachers receive over 10x what local staff earn) to cater for a few wealthy families whose children would much rather be in the US - which is where they'll be headed the moment they graduate. |
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Desert beauty
Joined: 05 Mar 2011
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Location: Switzerland
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| Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 12:41 pm Post subject: American university Afghanistan |
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| Has anyone ever worked here? I was thinking of applying, actually. |
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veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003
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Location: USA
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| Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:39 pm Post subject: Re: American University of Afghanistan |
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| Afghanistan doesn't need foreign universities (where teachers receive over 10x what local staff earn) to cater for a few wealthy families whose children would much rather be in the US - which is where they'll be headed the moment they graduate. |
I would disagree with this comment because this is the only way that a larger number of women will get quality education. Just as in the wealthy Gulf, the boys get sent abroad and without a choice in universities within the country, the women's options are zero.
I know some people involved with the university who are well-meaning and hard-working, but I don't know how it is for the average teacher.
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babur
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| Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:17 pm Post subject: auaf gravy train |
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