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ttabori
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 Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:04 pm Post subject: Ao Teng Foreign Language Training School? |
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Hello everyone,
Has anybody heard of Ao Teng Foreign Language Training School which is supposedly located in Hailar, Inner Mongolia? The school is newly built and without a homepage for the moment.
I cannot find references anywhere to this school.
Thanks folks.
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Dark Machine
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Well I've also been approached by this school. The management (or those I've spoken to) seem nice. But I got the contract and am just wondering whether I should actually take the job. Anyone know anything about this place? OP? Sorry for the thread necromancy.
EDIT: Also they offered me 5,500RMB per month, for 'up to' 24 teaching hours a week over 5 days, AND 30 teaching hours during 'peak periods' (months covering school holidays) over 6 days. With only 80RMB per hour overtime. I'm really not sure this is a good deal for me. But I only have a CELTA certificate. |
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Timer
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Location: China
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Dark Machine wrote: |
| Also they offered me 5,500RMB per month, for 'up to' 24 teaching hours a week over 5 days, AND 30 teaching hours during 'peak periods' (months covering school holidays) over 6 days. With only 80RMB per hour overtime. I'm really not sure this is a good deal for me. But I only have a CELTA certificate. |
That looks like a bad deal to me. Maybe if you were a recent arts graduate with no clue it would be ok but with your CELTA you can get better deals. |
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Dark Machine
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| Timer wrote: |
| Dark Machine wrote: |
| Also they offered me 5,500RMB per month, for 'up to' 24 teaching hours a week over 5 days, AND 30 teaching hours during 'peak periods' (months covering school holidays) over 6 days. With only 80RMB per hour overtime. I'm really not sure this is a good deal for me. But I only have a CELTA certificate. |
That looks like a bad deal to me. Maybe if you were a recent arts graduate with no clue it would be ok but with your CELTA you can get better deals. |
Appreciate your feedback Timer. I decided it was too far away from 'anything' and a lot of work for the money. Particularly since I'd lose 200RMB per month to the UK student loan company anyway. Wished them luck though, because they seemed like nice people.
I am a recent arts graduate (East Asian Studies) but yeah, I invested my savings in getting the CELTA right after I graduated. Am looking out for a University job. |
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Non Sequitur
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Sorry Dark Machine
Do you have a degree AND CELTA or just CELTA?
If you have both then I agree with other poster that you can do better.
China is difficult enough the first 6-12 months and my recommendation is a public uni or college in a say second level provincial PRC city.
Get your first gig out of the way and go from there.
The public system people are advertising now for Sept start so your timing is good.
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Little Tiger
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| Dark Machine wrote: |
Appreciate your feedback Timer. I decided it was too far away from 'anything' and a lot of work for the money. Particularly since I'd lose 200RMB per month to the UK student loan company anyway. Wished them luck though, because they seemed like nice people.
I am a recent arts graduate (East Asian Studies) but yeah, I invested my savings in getting the CELTA right after I graduated. Am looking out for a University job. |
Just a note as I am from the UK too, you don't have to pay back your loan until you earn over X amount per year. You wont earn that much in China, also if you leave the UK for a period of over 5 years your university debts are canceled - I think. Or move around so much that the loan company can't find you... |
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The Ever-changing Cleric
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 7:38 am Post subject: |
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| Little Tiger wrote: |
| Dark Machine wrote: |
Appreciate your feedback Timer. I decided it was too far away from 'anything' and a lot of work for the money. Particularly since I'd lose 200RMB per month to the UK student loan company anyway. Wished them luck though, because they seemed like nice people.
I am a recent arts graduate (East Asian Studies) but yeah, I invested my savings in getting the CELTA right after I graduated. Am looking out for a University job. |
Just a note as I am from the UK too, you don't have to pay back your loan until you earn over X amount per year. You wont earn that much in China, also if you leave the UK for a period of over 5 years your university debts are canceled - I think. Or move around so much that the loan company can't find you... |
posts like this leave me in no doubt as to why some countries are going broke. |
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Dark Machine
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| Little Tiger wrote: |
| Just a note as I am from the UK too, you don't have to pay back your loan until you earn over X amount per year. You wont earn that much in China, also if you leave the UK for a period of over 5 years your university debts are canceled - I think. Or move around so much that the loan company can't find you... |
The loan company thought of that one, at least in England. Check the government website and see 'thresholds if you move overseas'. Move to China and the threshold lowers to �6000. I have an arts degree (East Asian Studies) and a CELTA certificate just to be clear. I got the CELTA right after I finished my finals at University. |
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