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Yasuke · Joined: 10 Jan 2014 Posts: 178

I know in some countries people have private students or work part time in language centers. Is that possible in KSA? Does anyone have any experience doing this?

cultofpersonality · Joined: 12 Jan 2012 Posts: 94

You can do this...but officially it is illegal.

Yasuke · Joined: 10 Jan 2014 Posts: 178

CANDLES · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2014 9:35 am Post subject:

Well, let's just say that you can do private tuition, but DON'T advertise it. Lots of teachers do it all the time.

As for working part time after official work in a Language school or anywhere else, you cannot do that because of your Iqama/visa which states you cannot work for anyone apart from the company you were hired by.

Yasuke · Joined: 10 Jan 2014 Posts: 178

Thanks for the information.

2buckets · Joined: 14 Dec 2010 Posts: 515 Location: Middle East

Get the money first before you start the lessons. Saudis are late or non payers for many things.

Yasuke · Joined: 10 Jan 2014 Posts: 178

Rostom · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2014 5:00 pm Post subject:

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Take heed of Rostom, even though he is a follower of Hassan al Banna

nomad soul · Joined: 31 Jan 2010 Posts: 11454 Location: The real world

What not to do when teaching private students on the side...

Private tuition teachers detained following raids
By Rashid Hassan, Arab News | 10 June 2014
Source: http://www.arabnews.com/news/584366

RIYADH--Riyadh Police on Monday conducted a raid in which they arrested and detained three teachers of the International Indian School, Riyadh (IISR) while they were giving private tuition.
Acting on a tip off, the police raided the house of the IISR teachers and found them surrounded by students gathered for private tuition.

Eyewitnesses who requested anonymity said the names of the teachers detained during the raid include Mehboob Pasha from Karnataka, Mohammad Rifai from Tamil Nadu and Tauheed Ahmad Siddiquee from the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

They were taken to the Tarheel (deportation center) jail, they said. They added that the Riyadh Police has a list of teachers and the addresses of the venues where they take students for tuitions. The IISR principal was not available for comment. However, reliable sources told Arab News that an urgent meeting at the IISR was on and the school management was working on a plan of action. The sources also said that the school’s public relations officer has been asked to bail out the teachers from police custody. When Arab News contacted other community school managements, to inquire if their teachers had also been detained during raids, they replied in the negative.

Private tuition is illegal and punishable in the Kingdom.

(End of article)

CANDLES · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:15 am Post subject:

You know what NS... in the years I was in KSA practically every British/USA teacher was doing private tuition. The students were usually from the higher echelon of KSA society and we had no problems at all. Everyone knew!

But, unfortunately the Indian School and similar will be targeted because of who and where the teachers are from. The disparity is so obvious.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

In this case, snitches from the Indian community probably informed on them. Stoolies everywhere !

CANDLES · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 12:40 pm Post subject:

Stoolies and most importantly Jealousy, even among the Western expats! Crying or Very sad

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

I suspect that this might be quite a different tuition than most TEFLers do. What tends to happen in many schools is that the teachers don't really cover the curriculum in the classroom. The reason being that the classes are huge and out of control, added to the fact that the teacher pay is abysmally low.

Thus, teachers hold private classes of their own to limit things to those who actually want to learn and/or do test prep... and earn extra money. But it naturally reflects very bad on the teacher who is usually charging his/her own students to basically cover what should have been covered in class time.

All of the TEFLers I taught with who did private lessons never worked with their own students. In the UAE and Oman over the years, only a small minority of teachers did it. I limited mine to students where the Ministry came to me and asked me to do it for some of their employees with specific needs.

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plumpy nut · Joined: 12 Mar 2011 Posts: 1652