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[RobertinOman]

They are getting nasty again. Firing people without cause and with no warning.

[scrumpled]

Has anything improved? Are instructors being fired without notice? Do supervisors disrupt lessons? Is there sewage in the streets?

[plumpy nut]

I think you're teaching expectancy is much less in the region around Jizan and Abha. I wouldn't spend money on a visa for a teaching job in that region. The eastern region consisting of Jubail and Dammam will give a much happier outcome.

[bigdurian]

I know many Saudi women who teach English. Not so many men though.

[nomad soul]

Canadian college cuts link
By Matt Salusbury, EL Gazette | October 2016
Source: www.elgazette.com/

Algonquin College, a public-sector university in Ontario, Canada, announced in August that it was pulling out of its partnership with Algonquin College Saudi Arabia at Jazan Men’s College near the Saudi border with Yemen.

An announcement on Algonquin’s website cited the need for the university to meet its ‘financial objectives’, adding that ‘after more than a year of negotiations’ the decision had been taken to transfer the Jazan campus operation to its Saudi partners, the Colleges of Excellence network. Algonquin has absorbed costs of at least CA$4.3 million (£2.5m) from the venture, which began in 2009, with a focus on English language teaching, study skills and the training of electrical engineers.

Jazan had similar problems to other unsuccessful joint ventures with the Colleges of Excellence – there simply wasn’t enough demand from Saudi students for courses often on campuses far from population centres and in the middle of the desert. The UK public-sector FE institution Lincoln, Newark & Gainsborough College, for example, recently terminated a Colleges of Excellence partnership in the Al-Aflaj region of Saudi Arabia, citing ‘recruitment problems’.

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