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mep3 · Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 212

Hello,

I'm looking for a website where teachers post feedback on their experiences at a lot of different universities in China. I know there's stuff on here, but it's interspersed with all the other stuff. Also, a lot of Chinese universities I do searches on here for information about haven't been discussed on here. Does anyone know of any websites that have a forum or section specifically for foreign teacher feedback about many different Chinese universities? Thanks .... Michael

Louras · Joined: 24 Nov 2004 Posts: 288

You don't get to make any enquiries over here. You will just be slagged off.
Name the uni and you will probably get some info on it from someone other than the selfrighteous watchers of this forum- and I don't mean the moderators. Good luck!

nolefan · Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 1458 Location: on the run

there are a number of websites with various reviews on schools and universities but i'd take all of it with a big grain of salt if I was you.

buxiban.com
chinaschoolreview.com

and a a number of other websites that escape my memory at the moment but you can always google it.

clark.w.griswald · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 2056

You are already here so I think that you are off to a pretty good start. The forum at Daves is a good source of information about schools and the good thing about here is that unfair posts about schools will generally be met with questions from some of the long term teachers here, while legitimate posts will generally be acknowledged as fair warning. Basically you get feedback on feedback here. Try the search function.

Admittedly some of the information can be hard to find here and even gets lost as it is purged from the board. As nolefan has pointed out there are other sites that may have information posted in an archive fashion.

Super Mario · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 12:06 am Post subject:

As Nolefan said, www.chinaschoolreview.com is one, run by Nate, a genuine guy just interested in providing information.
Its been regularly blocked from within China, but is easily accessible from outside.
Here's some advice from another time zone that can help you get into hard to access sites:

Hey Nate, I just got your site! Sadly, it wasn't from my bookmark - that didn't work!
I went to a site called anonymouse http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html - typed your URL, and up it came. I was able to navigate around it as normal. There is a small ad window in my browser from anonymouse but I didn't mind that.

Thought this might be of interest for Nate's as well as any other sites we have trouble getting from here.

Plan B · Joined: 11 Jan 2005 Posts: 266 Location: Shenzhen

The main sites for reviews which most teachers in China are aware of are :

www.englishschoolwatch.org

www.eslteachersboard.com (School Reviews link)

Laoshi1950 · Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 198 Location: Australia

Another site worth checking out is - Workplace Mentor List

http://teflchina.org/jobs/mentors/index.html

The Workplace Mentor List is a list of English teaching institutions in China with the names and contact email addresses of native English teachers who've worked at them. The people listed can be contacted to ask about their listed institution(s) - ask anything you like.

The institutions featured on the list are those that have been submitted by the mentors. Some are schools, some universities, some private institutions; anywhere English is taught in China that hires native English teachers can be included on the list. The list is neither black nor white; schools featured may be good, bad or indifferent. You can use it as a starting point for researching institutions at which to work or to find out more about a place with which you've already had contact.

What can I ask a Mentor?

Anything you like! Different things are important to different people when they come to work in China. You can ask about terms and conditions; the friendliness of the staff; things to see in town. Workplace mentors are there to answer any questions you might have. They've not only experienced the institutions but also the area. There's a lot they can tell you.

NateM · Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 358

All the sites mentioned above are good resources, although I'd like to state that www.ChinaSchoolReview.com is no more. I ended up moving the site over to www.ChinaSchoolReview.net, so hopefully we can stay in business for a bit over there. Wink

thepreferrednomenclature · Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 80 Location: Beijing, Chaoyang

love the anonmouse tip. so much random good stuff from this forum. muchas 谢谢s.