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newtogolf · Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 49

"Look at the benefits - but with a PhD - look at other options"

What are other options? Thanks.

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

You have not been at all clear on this person's credentials or teaching experience. Both of those would control pay and benefits.

Other options? Something related to the field of study?

As I said, if this person has no credentials to teach English, no CELTA - no MA in Applied Linguistics... only an unrelated PhD, I don't know who would hire him/her to teach English.

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newtogolf · Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 49

This person has both M.A and Ph.D in Linguistics and TESOL with more than 10 year teaching experince in various english courses.

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

So... why have you been keeping the important details secret? Laughing

That brings us back to merely the question of the thesis topic - which adorabilly's example sounds positive. One can never know for sure until an application gets looked at...

Was s/he teaching ESL or in the English Department or Freshman Writing? This person needs to look into the various programs at places like UAEU, HCT, ZU, and AUS and see what appeals. They all have good websites that include position openings.

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bluecatbabe · Joined: 16 Apr 2009 Posts: 14 Location: Middle East

Employers like to recruit PhD's where they can for the prestige, but what you end up teaching will not necessarily match - eg, a Maths PhD I knew here found themselves teaching something called Math which in fact was basic numeracy, or what I call "sums".

I declared myself "Christian" on all documents, which cost me a certain pang as I am not a believer, but all it means in this context is that I am a non-Muslim (can get a drinks license and enter a pork supply shop... whisky and bacon - let's party!) and one of the tolerated "People of the Book".

I have no idea what would happen if someone put "Jewish", but on the Identity Card website it was one possible option to check, so presumably it's acceptable (Bahaii was another, as was "other").

I don't think it would be advisable to put atheist, somehow.

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

Mia Xanthi · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:29 pm Post subject:

I've always put down "Christian, non-practicing". That covers the fact that I was born to a Christian family and raised in a Christian church..but ithe "non-practicing" assuages my conscience as an adult non-believer. To me it also indicates that I am not in the country with the intent of proselytizing.

007 · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:24 pm Post subject:

anaxiforminges · Joined: 15 Apr 2009 Posts: 136 Location: UAE

So glad someone asked this question. I need to fill a form and was wondering what to put down. I have now put down "Christian" in all my documents. For what it's worth, I consider myself a "cultural Christian," meaning that I'm a humanist who still subscribes to the Western cultural heritage, etc.