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[BajaLaJaula]

Westerners don't love your country....We love your MONEY. Otherwise we would stay in the WEST.

When you lower salaries, increase the workload, and cut family benefits you are only going to attract those that can't get jobs in the WEST. As economies slowly start to recover you will find fewer and fewer candidates for your jobs in KSA.

Greedy recruiters and shortsighted HR managers are decreasing the ability get quality teachers to go and work in KSA.

The veteran teachers will leave and you will be left with the following to recruit from:

1. Perpetual bachelors (not that there is anything wrong with that)

2. Recent grads with little experience, who will go just to try and pay off their school loans...again the MONEY.

3. Slackers....the lighter workload.

4. Alcoholics....love to drink the sadiqi.

5. Recently divorced...Money and solitude.

This all leads to high turnover and having to spend a considerable amount of money on recruiting instead of attracting and retaining the best teachers.

But then again.....KSA has never been known for setting long term goals.

[cnthaiksarok]

[BajaLaJaula]

Sarok....you win the prize for eternal optimist....and life-long advocate for Saudi Arabia.

Let me rephrase....compared to the other Gulf countries, KSA is dead last when it comes to effective long-term planning.

A few fluffy articles don't change that.

Look at all the industry they will continue to have once the oil runs out or prices drop to the point that it starts to affect their ability to pay off the locals so they don't turn against the Royal Mafia.

From wikipedia....

The petroleum sector accounts for roughly 92.5% of Saudi budget revenues,[16] 90% of export earnings, and 55% of GDP.

Another 40% of GDP comes from the private sector. An estimated 7.5 (2013) million foreigner work legally in Saudi,[18] playing a crucial role in the Saudi economy, for example, in the oil and service sectors.

for all their money.....As of 2013, per capita income in Saudi was "a fraction of that of smaller Persian Gulf neighbors", even less than petroleum-poor Bahrain.

Saudi has not been a hotbed of technological innovation. The number of Saudi patents registered in the United States between 1977 and 2010 came to 382—less than twelve per year....insert Saudi made car here....I am sure SAUDI will be lining up to buy it...all of that National pride that they have.

The cost of maintaining the Royal Family is estimated by some to be about US$10 billion per year.

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[BajaLaJaula]

Saudi made car.....with Westerners managing it and Philipinos providing the labor.

Ya....abdullah....gib chai.....

yes...the future looks bright for Saudi....

[cnthaiksarok]

You do know that either you or I could edit a wikipedia article, right?

Ok,..ok...I'll try it your way.


This place blows. Everyone is backwards. It's a sewer sliding back into the stone age.

Great, now I'm miserable and don't want to go to work tomorrow. Thanks a lot!


Have great one man

[BajaLaJaula]

you win on points....

something to be said about being positive.

and seeing the glass water as half full.

[plumpy nut]

[Captain Willard]

Saudi Arabia doesn't want quality teachers. It doesn't really care if its students learn. It wants everything to look good by appearance. So, it looks better on paper if a teacher has a master's degree or Ph. D. None of that will matter if the students are unhappy and complain. Being too strict is a good way for a teacher to get fired, or perhaps scheduled as a substitute and then not have his contract renewed. What is important to the royal family is that the ethnic Saudi clans are happy, content, and tranquil. Education is just a tool for that purpose. Its appearance is more important than actual learning.

Salaries will only increase when fewer people take low paying offers. Too many people from English speaking countries are accepting low offers. Ultimately, the law of supply and demand rules the market.

[babur]

6. That shady crowd wafting their Masters in Business Administration, Management of whatever certificates, hot off the press, from universities nobody's ever heard of.