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Marcoregano · Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 872 Location: Hong Kong

I don't get any 'holidays' unfortunately, except weekends and public holidays, but curious to know if anyone can beat a friend of mine at a Hong Kong university. Today is his last teaching day until late September. While not officially on holiday for the entire time between now and then, he isn't required to go into work and only has to do a bit of research stuff. In a few weeks he'll be gone, returning to HK in late August. Besides the huge summer he also gets a few weeks at Xmas, a couple at Easter and two weeks (autumn and spring) thrown in as 'reading' weeks. Can anyone beat that?

naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

Can't beat it, but after the first quarter we have one week, after the second, three weeks, after the third one week. and then after the last two months.

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

I can't beat your friend's holiday time either, but I get two months in the summer plus a couple of weeks in the first semester (NOTHING in the second semester, though--one... measly... day!!!) and some down times at the college when classes aren't in session. Not holiday time, and we have to take it unpaid if we do want extra holiday time, but it does lighten the teaching load.

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spiral78 · Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 11534 Location: On a Short Leash

I get about the same as Denise, but I can take mine when I want - assuming, of course, that it works with the teaching schedule. I like not being limited to summertime off.

denise · Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 3419 Location: finally home-ish

11:59 · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:10 am Post subject:

I also teach at a uni here in HK and receive such holidays (some five months a year fully paid). I finish teaching duties a week today and won't start again till September.

Five good reasons to teach in HK: Summer, Xmas, New Year, Chinese New Year, & Easter.

gaijinalways · Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 2279

In Japan, part-time lecturers get off approximately 5 and 1/2 months a year. Not bad, though I usually work a bit during that time to pay for the trips that my wife and I take.

lozwich · Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 1536

So how does one go about getting these jobs? I have long thought that I'm much more suited to holidays than to working.. Wink

Phil_K · Joined: 25 Jan 2007 Posts: 2041 Location: A World of my Own

Marcoregano · Joined: 19 May 2003 Posts: 872 Location: Hong Kong

Captain Yossarian · Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 385 Location: Dongbei

It's not always such a great deal as people think working at a university in Hong Kong or an international school in the mainland. I've done a year stint (one at Dulwich School in Shanghai and one in City University in Hong Kong) and both brought home less bacon than in my time as a department head in an inner city London school (senior teachers can now earn up to 40-50,000 in the UK, though such positions are rare).