Site Search:
 
Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today!
Teach English Abroad and Get Paid to see the World!
Job Discussion Forums Forum Index Job Discussion Forums
"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!"
 
 FAQFAQ   SearchSearch   MemberlistMemberlist   UsergroupsUsergroups   RegisterRegister 
 ProfileProfile   Log in to check your private messagesLog in to check your private messages   Log inLog in 

Salaries these days
Goto page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5
 
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> United Arab Emirates
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
Middle East Beast



Joined: 05 Mar 2008
Posts: 836
Location: Up a tree
PostPosted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 1:59 am    Post subject: Re: salary questions Reply with quote
Shimokitazawa wrote:
It's Scary! wrote:
Middle East Beast wrote:
YES...avoid HCT like the Black Plague. The bacterium in this case is called administrationia/studentia/curriculumia/pdia/meetingia pestis.

It's resistant to all known antibiotics except resignacin.

MEB Cool


I knew that my time was up with them when I got the lab results back one day and discovered that I was "HCT Negative"! Twisted Evil

It's Scary!


So what you're saying is that HCT is a great employer in terms of compensation, benefits, hours and great facilities and housing, but that the administration is not good with their foreign staff?


Oh, one more point...you completely missed the point in my post.

MEB Cool
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Shimokitazawa



Joined: 16 Aug 2009
Posts: 458
Location: Saigon, Vietnam
PostPosted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 8:20 am    Post subject: Re: salary questions Reply with quote
Middle East Beast wrote:
Shimokitazawa wrote:
It's Scary! wrote:
Middle East Beast wrote:
YES...avoid HCT like the Black Plague. The bacterium in this case is called administrationia/studentia/curriculumia/pdia/meetingia pestis.

It's resistant to all known antibiotics except resignacin.

MEB Cool


I knew that my time was up with them when I got the lab results back one day and discovered that I was "HCT Negative"! Twisted Evil

It's Scary!


So what you're saying is that HCT is a great employer in terms of compensation, benefits, hours and great facilities and housing, but that the administration is not good with their foreign staff?


Oh, one more point...you completely missed the point in my post.

MEB Cool


Your point was that Higher Colleges of Technology is one of the top employers in the UAE in terms of compensation, housing subsidy, competent and respectful administration and other benefits.

I got it. Very Happy
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
veiledsentiments



Joined: 20 Feb 2003
Posts: 17644
Location: USA
PostPosted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:42 pm    Post subject: Re: salary questions Reply with quote
Shimokitazawa wrote:
... but that the administration is not good with their foreign staff?

This is a bit of a misinterpretation. Most of the administration IS foreign. The problem is not foreign vs local, but serious problems at the very top of the organization... one of whom is the direct cause of most of the negative situation. He may be local, but his minions (for want of a better work) are mixed nationality and from what I hear, mostly Westerners still - as it has been since HCT began.

HCT has always had a overly large management structure which means that since they have little to do (like... teach...), they fill their time with endless talking shop meetings devoted to making the actual workers' (teachers) jobs more onerous. Their directives tend to make it clear that they have either never taught or have forgotten what it is like. Laughing Then when their unreasonable procedures don't produce the results that they imagined, they organize lots of useless, but time-filling PD ideas.

To be fair, most of the management individuals are good people stuck in the situation as much as the teachers. Depending on a teacher's individual tolerance for this sort of thing, it has become a place where too many EFL teachers only complete one contract, rather than the 2-4 that many used to do. If you can stay out of Abu Dhabi, it is better (though one has no choice... applicants are sent where they are needed). And it is ever better if you are content rather than EFL.

VS
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Middle East Beast



Joined: 05 Mar 2008
Posts: 836
Location: Up a tree
PostPosted: Wed Aug 10, 2011 12:47 pm    Post subject: Re: salary questions Reply with quote
Shimokitazawa wrote:
Middle East Beast wrote:
Shimokitazawa wrote:
It's Scary! wrote:
Middle East Beast wrote:
YES...avoid HCT like the Black Plague. The bacterium in this case is called administrationia/studentia/curriculumia/pdia/meetingia pestis.

It's resistant to all known antibiotics except resignacin.

MEB Cool


I knew that my time was up with them when I got the lab results back one day and discovered that I was "HCT Negative"! Twisted Evil

It's Scary!


So what you're saying is that HCT is a great employer in terms of compensation, benefits, hours and great facilities and housing, but that the administration is not good with their foreign staff?


Oh, one more point...you completely missed the point in my post.

MEB Cool


Your point was that Higher Colleges of Technology is one of the top employers in the UAE in terms of compensation, housing subsidy, competent and respectful administration and other benefits.

I got it. Very Happy


No, you didn't. From which planet are you posting, by the way...


MEB Cool
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Shakhbut



Joined: 14 May 2005
Posts: 167
PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 6:07 pm    Post subject: Pay freeze Reply with quote
Edit

Last edited by Shakhbut on Sun Jun 30, 2013 7:10 pm; edited 1 time in total
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Kally Wally



Joined: 29 May 2011
Posts: 49
PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Quote:
It's official, pay freeze at HCT for this academic year



Shakhbut, do tell. I work for HCT and this is news to me.

It what way is it official?

Does this mean they'll be no 4% annual increments this year?

They ditched the merit pay a couple of years ago and there�s been no pay increase other than the annual 4% for the last 3 or 4 years.

The newspapers here are full of stories about cut backs and no new hires across all higher education and also pay freezes but I took it as read that the 4% is written �in stone� in your contract����then again I could be wrong.

What�s the skinny?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
helenl



Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Posts: 1202
PostPosted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 6:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Is it indeed written in your contract? Or has it just been "policy" for the past few years. They lowered the annual increase unilaterally in 2006/07 to the current 4% (from, as I recall 6% automatically each year).

Perhaps this announcement is in reference to pay levels as opposed to annual increases?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> United Arab Emirates All times are GMT
Goto page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Page 5 of 5

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum


This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling.
Contact Dave's ESL Cafe
Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved.

Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group
Teaching Jobs in China
Teaching Jobs in China