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[Ricky57]

I've been teaching in Thailand for four years and am thinking about a change. At present I'm considering teaching at a University ONLY. I'm also restricting my search to coastal provinces from Shandong south. I'd like to know about normal class sizes, living on campus (are the facilities what they say they are?), student behavior (I can put up with most things , but dislike noisy, disruptive students), and working conditions ( 14-18 classroom hours is OK, but do they want a lot of "extras"). Please reply.

[Kurochan]

Hi --

I'm sure there's a lot of variation, but a few things I CAN say --

I think 12-16 hours a week is the norm

more and more schools are asking for master's degrees, although not all do (and some will accept any post-BA degree, like if you went to law school or something).

wages pretty much get higher as you go south.

[auflos]

Hey,

Right now I know Qingdao University is paying around rmb4,000 and provides a decent free apartment. 18 hrs a week I think?
They have a website. Yantai Uni just hired a coworker from here at 4,000 and is giving a choice of housing allowance or free on campus apt.

I taugt at Yantai Normal Uni a couple years ago and class size was about 16 students.

Good luck!
Thomas

[Roger]

My teaching load this term was 14 periods a week, spread over 4 mornings. Every afternoon I was free. I also had three days in a row off.
Pay was average (you have read it in replies before mine), but you can add to that as much as you like as you can work elsewhere.
The one downside was that I had to commute from my campus to another campus on 3 days a week. The commute took half an hour one way, but you have to board the bus on time... Which added a quarter of an hour to the trip.
Housing was very good.

Class size: 25 to a little over 30 students. I had a lot of chance visitors. In our university, some students casually drop in.

However, the final exam was for the enrolled students only.
And, I can say they were very polite throughout the entire term. Some were, ahem, slackers, evidently (one girl signing for another one on the attendance sheet; several guys oversleeping regularly and having to be told that missing 5 lessons would disqualify them from taking part in the exam...).
Overall, very satisfactory experience although the linguistic competency of my students is somewhat lacklustre!

[Catherine kang]

we. Fuzhou University is recruiting new foreign teachers now, 80,000-150,000 one year contract, we also provide you with free accomodation and some benefits, the students all university students, and maybe 25 a class, so if you are interested in the job, please contact me, and send me a formal CV, i'll also send you a detailed descriotion of the job.

[Ludwig]

'Catherine kang', is Fuzhou not where you had the recent leak of the deadly phosgene gas from the 'Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter'?

Could this perhaps be why you are recruiting?

http://china.com.cn/english/2004/Jun/98508.htm