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Paulie2003
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 Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2004 10:59 pm Post subject: Mexican Higher Ed |
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| Anyone familiar with colleges or university teaching in Mexico? When do they hire - where can I find their info? |
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moonraven
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| Many universities will start their fall semester on Monday, Oct. 4th. |
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Ben Round de Bloc
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 12:49 pm Post subject: Re: Mexican Higher Ed |
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| Paulie2003 wrote: |
| Anyone familiar with colleges or university teaching in Mexico? When do they hire - where can I find their info? |
At the university where I teach, hiring is usually done in August for EFL classes that start sometime during the first half of September for fall term. For spring term, which starts sometime in February, hiring is usually done in January shortly after the Christmas/New Year's break.
Many universities have rather extensive web sites that include lists of administrators' names and positions. Making contact with EFL department heads or coordinators of foreign-languages departments can often get you information about possible job openings, starting dates, requirements, application prodecures, etc. |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:43 pm Post subject: Higher-ED |
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Quick point here on the top positions at the top universities (read: best pay and benefits).
Some universities and private schools have recruiters working in the US, Canada, and the UK in order to get teachers. You will often find them at job fairs or through student services departments at US, Canuck, and Brti universities known for producing good teachers.
This is done between February and June usually. |
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Paulie2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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What might be expected as far as salaries  |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:12 pm Post subject: Salaries |
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That ranges very widely. Large cities (Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterey) range from 500-2000 USD. Smaller cities could range from 400-1500 usd (expect the low end though).
Many offer benefits in lieu of a higher salary, some of which are very good, such as housing or housing allowances, vales which are like coupons you can spend at certain large stores (think Walmart or a big grocery store), paid vacation, or contract completion bonuses. |
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moonraven
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| Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 9:04 pm Post subject: |
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| No, don't think WalMart! It's outrageous that although the governor of the State of Mexico indicated last Friday that WalMart's Bodega Aurerr� store-in-progress next to the ruins of Teotihuac�n (!!!)--would have to be built somewhere else, the construction has redoubled its forces. The citizens group continues its hunger strike. I suppose we can soon expect to see the golden arches of McDonald's shining at the top of the Pyramid of the Sun? |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 10:01 pm Post subject: Rotten Ronnies |
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| T'is a shame, no? Ya can't stop progress, they say. But then again, they say a lot of things... |
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moonraven
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| Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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Gratuitous glibness gives me a pain where I sit. You call operating sweat shops, indulging in unfair competition, supressing collective bargaining and discriminating against women (the biggest class-action suit in history is being litigated against WalMart in Chicago) PROGRESS? Not to mention destruction of archaelogical sites.
I guess the "liberation" of Iraq did away with the concept of preservation of ancient cultures.
One of the guys who operates an earth-mover on the Teotihuac�n construction site said that he had turned up "mountains" of pre-hispanic artefacts--and that the construction supervisors hid them. |
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Guy Courchesne
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| Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2004 12:05 am Post subject: Who are you arguing with? |
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Paulie2003
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Though we appear to have strayed far from the topic...one of my 'pet peeves' in ALL developing countries is the influx of typical American 'chain' franchises - they always detract from the ambiance, don't they. I usually try to 'go local' and stay away from them,(though some Latinos here say they didn't know 'what pizza was' until the arrival of 'Pizza Hut') In Lithuania one of the largest corps was Phillip Morris...it does seem that many young folk were addicted to tobacco, now that I look back....  |
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MixtecaMike
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| Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:31 am Post subject: |
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Just mentioning Walmart is guaranteed to totally divert the topic. The moonbeast cannot help but rant on against her REAL native heritage at the mention of this chain.
Back to the topic, if you cultivate friendships (or fiendships) with certain of the Mexico forum posters you might find some [b]useful contacts [/b]for university positions. Be aware that you will probably still only earn a pittance, but hopefully a less pitiful pittance than at the average Mexican teaching job.
Oh, I'm no longer working at a Mexican uni so I'm afraid I can't be considered a useful contact. |
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Paulie2003
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"Better a dollar well-earned than a thousand begot by wayward means."
- The Little Prince |
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Ben Round de Bloc
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| Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Paulie2003 wrote: |
| Though we appear to have strayed far from the topic...one of my 'pet peeves' in ALL developing countries is the influx of typical American 'chain' franchises - they always detract from the ambiance, don't they. |
Speaking from the aesthetic point of view, I find it interesting that when many people from "First World countries" go to developing countries either on vacation or to live and work for a while, they want to find "Colonial times" for living conditions there. They're disappointed to see that local populations have many of the same modern conveniences (and modern problems that go along with them) that can be found in their already developed countries. They'd be much happier if they could return to their home countries after the experience and say something like, "You wouldn't believe how those poor people have to live! My goodness, many of them don't even have electricity and indoor plumbing! We visited a little village that only had one telephone in the entire town, and it wasn't working. You know, I couldn't even find my brand of shampoo in any of the stores in the city where we stayed . . . but everything looked so quaint and charming there." Yes, it would be so much better to insist that they maintain their colonial ambience for our benefit, so we as visitors wouldn't have to see all those eyesores that we have to look at in our developed countries. How dare they allow foreign investors in to blight the scenery! |
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Paulie2003
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| Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 6:23 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm tentatively agreeing with you, Tim...how on Earth did these cultures ever survive for thousands of years without us??? Fast food has made their lives so much easier... |
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