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ord2world
Joined: 20 May 2010
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Location: Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
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 Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 9:35 pm Post subject: i2 International Institute of Education (Kunming or Xiamen) |
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Hello, everyone!
I'm having a hard time finding outside information about the aforementioned school apart from their website. Can anyone give me information about this school? Do they honor contracts? I had an interview with them last year, but declined in favor of a job in Spain.
http://re.i2education.com/index.html
Thank you,
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Markness
Joined: 30 Dec 2009
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Location: Chengdu
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I worked there last year. To answer your questions they do somewhat honor the contract. They get your visa and everything, but the problem is that they have people who don't know what they're doing when it comes to handling it.
Expect to teach 20-25 hours per week, have office hours so you can sit there and do nothing (they implemented it recently for no reason), and to deal with brats. The pay is quite fair, but you will be dealing with incompetence everywhere. You are at the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to importance. The most important person is always the customer, and in this case it is the students. Then it is the Chinese staff, and then you. There is flexibility with the scheduling but you absolutely need to be on top of the Chinese staff. They will not try and block your classes together at all, so your day that you're expecting to go from 4-9 will turn into a 12-9 day because some toddler wants a pre-lunch time class.
Final point is that if all of that doesn't turn you off, then you may be unfortunate to have a bone-head foreign teacher manager like I did. He was worse than the Chinese staff/managers, and it made me never want to have a western boss ever again. Complete clown, and supported the companies ILLEGAL policies/procedures, and tried to muffle me as I constantly called them out.
Anywho, it is a shit place to work, but a good place to make friends. If you are looking for friends then it is a great place to work, otherwise avoid (unless you are a non-native English speaker, then they'll hire you no problem!) |
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ord2world
Joined: 20 May 2010
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Location: Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
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Thank you letting me how horrible this school is! Since you're based in Chengdu; I'm guessing you're teaching with an amazing school that's nothing like I2. Would you mind sharing the name of this school and website?
It just seems no matter which school I ask about no one ever has anything positive to say about it. It's good to know the truth, but this is truly depressing. I know they'll be problems with every school, but I'm trying to avoid major issues. 
| Markness wrote: |
I worked there last year. To answer your questions they do somewhat honor the contract. They get your visa and everything, but the problem is that they have people who don't know what they're doing when it comes to handling it.
Expect to teach 20-25 hours per week, have office hours so you can sit there and do nothing (they implemented it recently for no reason), and to deal with brats. The pay is quite fair, but you will be dealing with incompetence everywhere. You are at the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to importance. The most important person is always the customer, and in this case it is the students. Then it is the Chinese staff, and then you. There is flexibility with the scheduling but you absolutely need to be on top of the Chinese staff. They will not try and block your classes together at all, so your day that you're expecting to go from 4-9 will turn into a 12-9 day because some toddler wants a pre-lunch time class.
Final point is that if all of that doesn't turn you off, then you may be unfortunate to have a bone-head foreign teacher manager like I did. He was worse than the Chinese staff/managers, and it made me never want to have a western boss ever again. Complete clown, and supported the companies ILLEGAL policies/procedures, and tried to muffle me as I constantly called them out.
Anywho, it is a shit place to work, but a good place to make friends. If you are looking for friends then it is a great place to work, otherwise avoid (unless you are a non-native English speaker, then they'll hire you no problem!) |
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Markness
Joined: 30 Dec 2009
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Location: Chengdu
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| ord2world wrote: |
Thank you letting me how horrible this school is! Since you're based in Chengdu; I'm guessing you're teaching with an amazing school that's nothing like I2. Would you mind sharing the name of this school and website?
It just seems no matter which school I ask about no one ever has anything positive to say about it. It's good to know the truth, but this is truly depressing. I know they'll be problems with every school, but I'm trying to avoid major issues.
| Markness wrote: |
I worked there last year. To answer your questions they do somewhat honor the contract. They get your visa and everything, but the problem is that they have people who don't know what they're doing when it comes to handling it.
Expect to teach 20-25 hours per week, have office hours so you can sit there and do nothing (they implemented it recently for no reason), and to deal with brats. The pay is quite fair, but you will be dealing with incompetence everywhere. You are at the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to importance. The most important person is always the customer, and in this case it is the students. Then it is the Chinese staff, and then you. There is flexibility with the scheduling but you absolutely need to be on top of the Chinese staff. They will not try and block your classes together at all, so your day that you're expecting to go from 4-9 will turn into a 12-9 day because some toddler wants a pre-lunch time class.
Final point is that if all of that doesn't turn you off, then you may be unfortunate to have a bone-head foreign teacher manager like I did. He was worse than the Chinese staff/managers, and it made me never want to have a western boss ever again. Complete clown, and supported the companies ILLEGAL policies/procedures, and tried to muffle me as I constantly called them out.
Anywho, it is a shit place to work, but a good place to make friends. If you are looking for friends then it is a great place to work, otherwise avoid (unless you are a non-native English speaker, then they'll hire you no problem!) |
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Hi, I can PM you the name of my school and all of that jazz. It is a high school that does prep courses, and you might need experience with either IB/SAT/VCE/TOEFL/IELTS or anything else that can get you in.
And I don't think it is necessarily a problem just with that branch, it is with training schools in general. They are just a hot mess usually. Lots of people with poor education/money, and people trying to sell them on training school education because they don't know where else to go. Usually the cream of the crop won't bother with training schools in the first place, you usually will get the people who are A) are bored B) parents who are forcing their kids to study there (and are usually unmotivated, plus the materials are usually crap), and C) people who are flakey, and will waste your time.
I just can't do training schools anymore. The Chinese staff have a bone to pick (they "work" longer, and get paid less so there is some sourness), and with that in mind, sometimes they willl make your life difficult on purpose. Examples being they will not block your classes together on purpose to give you a longer day, and they will not tell you information on purpose to either make you look bad, or do something that no one else wanted to do. It was just frustrating after a while . So, never again for me! |
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CNexpatesl
Joined: 27 May 2015
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Hey Mark, would you be able to PM me it as well?
I'd be very interested in working in a similar place. |
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ord2world
Joined: 20 May 2010
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Location: Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
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| Posted: Wed Jan 13, 2016 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, Mark,
Got it...Could you please send me the website link?
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