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phil82
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 Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 4:14 am Post subject: search function in job information journal |
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| I remember reading about a school called IDEAR on this website before, i think it was in the job information journal part. Is there a way of searching through there? Or does anyone have any experience of this school? |
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clark.w.griswald
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| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:53 am Post subject: |
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I did a search for this school over at www.buxiban.com . Four schools by that name came up. Three of which have three star ratings but no comments.
The one is Zhonghe has a two star rating and some ex-teacher comments listed there about the hiring of illegal teachers etc. |
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Aristotle
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 6:16 am Post subject: |
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I did a search for this school over at www.buxiban.com . Four schools by that name came up. Three of which have three star ratings but no comments.
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You will of course notice that the site above does not take into account reports published on sites other than their own. As they have been online less than a year that means they have little to no real research info on much of anything older than the site (basically every school gets the same rating unless they make terms with the site administrators). Also they use a "questionable criteria" about accepting reports from teachers.
In order to properly research a school you need to have the address and/or land line telephone number of the school as well as the name of the supervisor, manager or owner. You can sens that info to
[email protected]
Good luck,
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clark.w.griswald
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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Well I guess that there should be no surprise that Aristotle doesn't like the site I recommended here. Afterall, that site has no doubt made a dent on the readership of Aristotles website, as it offers users information that Aristotle has alluded to for years but always stated that only members could have access to. Now everyone can access this information - and all without the need to join Aristotles secret society.
Do I detect a hint of jealousy in your comments Aristotle?
Before anyone suggests otherwise, the buxiban site hasn't paid me a cent for my support. It is a very informative site in my opinion and one that meets a need that has been around for some time. My only complaint is that there aren't enough comments about schools, but I guess that this isn't really the sites problem as much as it is a lack of information existing on some schools.
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| You will of course notice that the site above does not take into account reports published on sites other than their own. |
I disagree. The site links to other sites on it's front page, has the most extensive Taiwan Links page that I have ever seen. School listings that do contain comments link to comments made on other sites including here at Daves. How much more could they do to take into account comments made on other sites? Have you even done a search on that site Aristotle? Probably not as this would require registration, and we all know how paranoid you are about registration - but then you require regustration on your site before people can become members of your secret society don't you!?
Where on the SSET website do you publish your reports about schools Aristotle? What links to reports on other sites are published on your website? I can't find any such information there.
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| As they have been online less than a year that means they have little to no real research info on much of anything older than the site |
A quick Whois search shows that the site has been registered for about a year. A read of the information on the site shows a lot more knowledge than can be gained in one year. It is clearly based upon experience and I don't see any information that would indicate that it is a novice effort. Just because the site hasn't been registered under that name for very long doesn't mean that the value of the information is poor. The suggestion that they have only been online for a year and therefore have no knowledge is flawed!
I have found information on the site dating back to 2000. That information is five years old Aristotle so I don't know what you are talking about.
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| (basically every school gets the same rating unless they make terms with the site administrators). |
Do you know something that we don't know or are you just making your usual unqualified and unsupported comments again.
I think that the star rating system used on that site is very clear. The majority of schools have three stars as, according to the information on the site, this is the rating given to schools for which there is no information available.
Aristotle, if you have information about a school that you think has a rating above what it deserves then why not send the supporting information to the site and let them downgrade the school. Afterall, that is what the site is all about.
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| Also they use a "questionable criteria" about accepting reports from teachers. |
What are these 'questionable criteria' that you refer to? Again, do you know something about the site that the rest of us don't know or are you just attempting to discredit a competing website.
I have posted some comments on the site, and all of these are currently online there. I don't agree that there was any criteria involved in filtering comments made, other than a prohibition on bad language.
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| In order to properly research a school you need to have the address and/or land line telephone number of the school as well as the name of the supervisor, manager or owner. You can sens that info to [email protected] |
Yeah right. Send this information to an anonymous individual who openly mocks the government of Taiwan, runs an illegal secret society with a grand membership of one, operating from a free-host geocities website and a free yahoo email address.
Or you could just log on to the site that Aristotle has attempted to discredit here, and get all of the information you need from their searchable database.
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Good luck,
A. |
Yeah, you will need it if you think Aristotle can help you! |
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TaoyuanSteve
Joined: 05 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 4:32 pm Post subject: |
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| the stie above does not take into account reports published on sites other than their own |
This is actually untrue. I was once reading some comments on that site and thought they were awefully familiar. That was because they were portions of discussion threads from this site that were quoted (I even recognized my own writing). Someone from on that site is monitoring the chat forums for comments on schools. Some of them end up reposted over there and get factored into the ratings. |
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