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bweidema · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Eugene,OR,US

I have been applying for teaching positions in Shanghai, I have no teaching experience and was told this:

"Unfortunately, according to the regulation of Shanghai foreign experts bureau, all the schools in Shanghai are requested to employ teachers with bachelor degree and two years teaching experience."

Does anyone know if this is true? 2 years experience required?

gengrant · Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:35 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately, this seems to be a Government mandate, as other cities are saying the same thing...I know in Shenzhen this is true...

Also, you cannot come into the country on a tourist visa and get it changed to a work (z) visa anymore...this has been in place for some time, and is discussed in greater detail in another thread...

Confused

Anda · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 2199 Location: Jiangsu Province

The two year thing is not enforced everywhere here in China. There are plenty of places that you can get a job without two years of teaching experience. There are even places that will take you on with no degree however they would use a fake degree for you to get your z visa.

Currently but getting any visa has become difficult and I'm hearing on the grape vine that it is about to become even more so. The main cities are not in short supply for our lot (English teachers) so you should be looking in more out of the way places.

Shanghai is an expensive city so be careful if you do get a job offer with no teaching experience as it means two things: No one else wants the job. The pay won't allow you to do anything but subsist for one pay to the next.

samhouston · Joined: 17 Jan 2007 Posts: 418 Location: LA

Anda · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 2199 Location: Jiangsu Province

My Chinese friend's friend that works in the visa issue department said to hurry up and get my new visa issued. I have plenty of time left but I'm pushing to get it done as quick as I can because of the Summer holidays coming up. Apparently I need a new foreign expert certificate so I'm on it now!

Personally I think something big internationally is going to happen around late October. What they are doing with us I can swallow but not what they have been doing with business people and international students. They must have a bigger reason than the games. I don't think they are stupid at the top level. Anyway time will tell.

william wallace · Joined: 14 May 2003 Posts: 2869 Location: in between

Anda, do you have any theories or guesses ?
Cheers,
WW

Zero · Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 1402

Do they verify the two years' experience? Can't you fake it?

Anda · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 2199 Location: Jiangsu Province

Well William I'm expecting Israel and Syria to go to war soon which will drag in Iran as it is an allied with Syria. Have a read below. Anyway that�s what I think is coming up so China will have to protect its oil / energy interests!

Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs
10 Feb 2006 ... The world's media are nowadays awash with news of China's energy dependency on Iran weighing heavy on its policy considerations in light of ...
www.atimes.com/atimes/middle_east/hb10ak01.html - 49k - Cached - Similar pages

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China's Growing Energy Dependence: The Costs and Policy ...
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China's Growing Energy Dependence: The Costs and Policy Implications of Supply Alternatives. pipeline to China directly or through Iran to the Persian Gulf ...
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http://www.slate.com/id/2146139/

Once Syria and Israel get going Bush will go all out on Iran.

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Bush�s Iran War Plans
Bush�s Iran War Plans
By Matthew Rothschild October 2007 Issue

http://www.progressive.org/mag_comment0907
REUTERS
http://sheikyermami.com/2007/05/27/ahmadinejad-threatens-israel-with-destruction/
It�s hardly surprising any more when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatens Israel with destruction. It wasn�t so long ago that he suggested the country be moved to Alaska. Or just wiped off the map.
But in a Thursday speech at Isfahan broadcast on state television, he issued a threat more direct than any that had come before. If Israel, he said, were to go to war against Lebanon again this summer, it would be destroyed.

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