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Imdramayu · Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 394 Location: South Korea

Susie,

Check out this nice book "Language teacher research in the Middle East":

http://www.tesol.org/s_tesol/zs_sec_document.asp?CID=287&DID=8814

Tell me what you think. I'm trying to find a way to buy it without having to order it from the US and paying outlandish postage.

IM

Badar Bin Bada Boom · Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:02 pm Post subject:

johnslat · Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 1:21 pm Post subject:

Dear B4,

Sanguine, you say? That's bloody scary. Very Happy

Regards,
John

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

B4... it's been a 4 lane forever, hasn't it? Or do you mean an 8 lane all the way? I wouldn't base much advice on one trip. Timing may be everything... was it rush hour? And all one needs is a tiny fender bender and gridlock is immediate.

Would you like to do it twice a day? With the way the local drive those 4 WD tanks they like... Shocked

VS
(Can a drive be "sanguine"? Wouldn't it have to be you? Not sure how it fits here... Laughing

)

Badar Bin Bada Boom · Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 6:30 pm Post subject:

Four lanes on each side. It's a totally different road once I got south of the old Hard Rock Cafe area. I drove out of the Dubai airport at 7:40 am on Wednesday Nov 1 and traffic was light in the city In fact, traffic didn't pick up until I got onto the highway. Slightly congested but the world was sanguine. I don't see why, if you can have a cheerful drive, you can't have a sanguine drive. Occasional thinking outside of the box is permitted for people who can write.

No, I wouldn't ever do it twice a day. My post was not to argue with you about commutes. It was simply to inform of a new road since I'd last driven the DXB-AD route--probably ten years ago.

It's Scary! · Joined: 17 Apr 2011 Posts: 823

Vancouver Vic · Joined: 18 Aug 2011 Posts: 37

I'm sorry but why would anyone want to study in Dubai if they don't have to? Education is second rate unless you go to American University of Dubai or Sharjah where standards have been maintained at a western level. All the other universities that have sprung up all over the place have succumbed to the pressure of money money money.

Badar Bin Bada Boom · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 5:28 am Post subject:

Certainly that Woolongong appeared to be a diploma mill according to an insider I knew there a few years ago. I am not so sure of the AUD reputation. Last I knew, they hired mostly subpar part-timers. American in name only, in other words.

Dubai has a certain dazzling reputation around the world now, thanks to advertising dollars spent at CNN and BBC making Dubai and Abu Dhabi look like the cultural and technical cutting-edge centers of the world.

Chinese students (and their moneyed parents) don't buy it. There's only one place nowadays they consider number one for higher education: the United States. For the past few years a new brand name has supplanted Armani, Gucci or BMW: Harvard. (And so we see a massive industry of fake high-school credentials and admission essays written by someone else). If they can't get into Harvard, anywhere in the Boston area will do. Since it's boorish in China to say "I went to Harvard," everybody and their uncle says "I went to college in Boston."

Where seldom is heard "NYU Abu Dhabi."

Vancouver Vic · Joined: 18 Aug 2011 Posts: 37

Yes have heard a few bad things about Wollongong and their standards not up to scratch - hence the reason they put on their diplomas etc University of Wollongong - DUBAI. There's the catch. Heard of someone who got a job at AUS after having been teaching at HCT Sharjah and started passing all the students in his class. He was promptly called in to his head and asked what the story was. How can you pass all these students? Poor thing he was used to HCT standards.

volgaman · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 5:58 pm Post subject:

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Ugh... one of the best reasons to get into education in the Gulf was that I didn't have long commutes. If I would have had to spend two+ hours per day in their awful traffic, I would have been gone before the first month was done. Laughing

VS

Dominic-Pax · Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 77

Dedicated · Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 972 Location: UK

Dominic-Pax,

I beg to differ. For a UK/EU citizen, a part-time PhD or EdD will cost you about 2,283 GB pounds, even at Cambridge.

See :http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/gradstud/fees/costs

Dominic-Pax · Joined: 20 Oct 2009 Posts: 77

Iamherebecause · Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2012 11:55 am Post subject:

UK fees are variable, and they can be fairly unsympathetic in their interpretation of who is a Home student. Basically if you're British and live outside the UK you will count as an overseas student, fees around �11k per year even when you return there to do the PhD. But if you're an EU citizen they don't always check where you've been living so a French national who'd worked in the UAE could pay about �4k. For part-time (or distance) courses it can be less but they often expect a shared supervision element in the place where you are based.

At those fee rates I won't be able to afford a PhD before I retire...