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Tim · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 45

Hi

Does anyone have (or is anyone going soon and can try to find out..)
the phone numbers for the Foreign Languages Departments of Universities or anywhere else that might employ Native English Teachers in Lhasa?

I know the likelihood is low, but I have heard rumours of people managing to get jobs there before, so...

or if anyone else has any (helpful) ideas about how to work there...?

Thanks

Tim

Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

Job applicants are thoroughly vetted by the Chinese, as you can, perhaps, imagine!
To my knowledge, only certain approved volunteer organisations are allowed to place their teachers in sensitive areas. I have heard ofsome organisations (I think one is called HOPE) that put teachers in Tibetan-inhabited areas of Sichuan.
As for Tibet, I researched the whole of China and Tibet for a guidebook, and I still have a couple of addresses and phone nos. of Tibetan schools, but as far as I know nobody has so far been given the green light to teach there!

ChinaLady · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2003 8:30 am Post subject: Teaching in Tibet

visited the only university last summer. had several "foreign" students but no teachers, visiting or otherwise. and just to get on the campus our guide had his driver call his wife (who worked there) to get us through the gates. we toured the campus, the library and the housing. this would be tough duty. please remember that the foreign cafes close in the winter because it gets really cold. it would be an adventure!
good luck!

taiwan boy · Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 99 Location: China

Kham Aid is an organisation which can accept volunteer teachers to work in Tibetan towns in Western Sichuan (or Kham as it was known before China invaded Tibet). Their web site is: http://www.khamaid.org

Tim · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 45

thanks for the ideas - i will think about the Sichuan ideas

- but really - I don't want to be a volunteer (even if /normal' jobs don't pay that well), and I want to be in Lhasa.

Keep any ideas coming, though.

tim

MW · Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 115 Location: China

The 2002 manual for employing Foreign Experts in China, printed by the State Bureau of Foreign Experts, lists four such employers in that area along with contact information.

Owen · Posted: Sat May 03, 2003 12:37 am Post subject: Experts Handbook

MW · Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 115 Location: China

Owen -

Is that Ou Wen? as in Buckland? lol

Tibet is actively recruiting right now!

The hard copy is available in your Provincial Capital bookstore.

Dragon · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 81

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MW · Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 115 Location: China

Dragon -

I do not know when you arrived in China but I first arrived in March 1978.

I reached enlightenment when I realized that the longer I am here, the less I actually know about China and Chinese as opposed to what I thought I knew shortly after I arrived, say the first ten years.

Dragon · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 81

Dear Comrade,
Yes, Iknew you must have been here a long time to know so much about the party and the wondeful chinese nation. You are truly an inspiration to us all. I look forward to all your postings.
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