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[papuadn]

"We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language".
-- Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, 1887

Nevertheless, claiming BISS is a "true" international school to the OP based on a job description and its approximation of what defines an ideal candidate is inaccurate.

[Non Sequitur]

In what way?

[papuadn]

(1) Accreditation determines the acceptance or rejection of what progress and marks a pupil receives when returning to the country of origin or seeking non-resident admission elsewhere.

(2) A teacher with legitimate qualifications is not served by accepting a position with a school misrepresenting accreditation-- it doesn't further a career.

Moreover, the job description is not particularly versed in what qualifications are relevant to an accredited international program. Maybe you saw DELTA and concluded higher threshold?

The history of international programs is a little complicated (accredited and not-- and I do not refer to the recent growth of those here in China), but given the earlier and dismissive reply of barf...

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This is what I saw:
'Must have a minimum of 5 years’ post-degree teaching experience (English teaching/training experience in China/Asia
preferred)

For those who are following this thread there is another point in the Person Specification.
Native or bilingual proficiency in English

This appears to open the way for Sth Africans who have bilingual education (English/Africaans).
They tend to be discriminated against in the FT market.

[papuadn]

You have significant experience and you are a regular poster, so your confusion about this demonstrates to me why others are.

Five plus years is more than an average (higher threshold), but "teaching experience" is without qualification and schools that transfer records are never as vague about a teacher's experience.

The school claims multiple affiliations it does not have. Maybe you are including as "true" a curricula of international topics? Because that is a type of international/alternative enterprise (private) as well as accredited schools that transfer records (also private).

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Your insistence on exactitude, currency and clarity when dealing with any Chinese enterprise, is misplaced.
If that's not too binary a concept for you.

[papuadn]

Addressing me versus the OP's concern is deflection. You looked at a website and made a bad call. Ignoring that a school claims affiliation with organizations that don't list it is suspicious. It's likely a scam and your insistence that it's a "true" international is specious.

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It's a true international as far as the spec for teaching staff is concerned. I made no claim as to other issues around the school.
Chinese websites are notorious for being out-of-date. They may be making spurious claims re accreditation, or they may not.
At a certain point it comes down to the Q&A between an applicant and the employer. To take the view that every issue is to be based on the webpages is absurd. What about accommodation? What about access to cafeterias? What about on-campus health nurse or Dr?

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That 'huijia' school seems to have IB accreditation though, so I'm not sure what to think.

(that's the school with all the awful reviews on here and elsewhere)

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http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/barf

Nothing British about the Cambridge Dictionary.

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If you listen to the audio cues they are provided with both American and British accents.

[The bear]