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[travelfloosie]

Hi all,

First I would like to thank you all for the replies from my last posting ranting about the snail pace process of PNet scheme.

I think I have a better understanding about how it all works...i.e. SLOW to STOP, anyway, while I am still waiting for something to happen which of course it will now I am very happy to report that I have been appointed as FT teacher in school to start in Sep 09. So of course this means that I will be putting HK on a backburner for the time being. I will get a few more years of teaching under my belt which, I'm sure will stand me in good stead for the 'calculations' of experience. I have only been teaching 2 years so maybe that's why I have been overlooked or could it be the fact that i'm a ' ban tong fan'? - excuse the pingying. (ref: a couple of years ago a story in SCMP about a NET arriving in HK ready to take up a post to be met with derision and racism from the HT because he although a 'native english speaker' was BBC!)

I hope this starts another thread between tinseltown rebellion et al. I would also like to acknowledge that you certainly do this forum great justice as I have learnt loads about the HK today and how it ticks. thanks very much.

travelfloosie - newly appointed Year 4 teacher!

[Tinseltown Rebellion]

Would that by any chance be the same PGDE that, as far as I can ascertain, is unrecognised outside of Hong Kong? (It has to be 'D' for Diploma as 'Certificate' � as is routinely used in every single other country on the planet � is simply not grandiose enough.) Yes, I know that course. That is the one which advertises top professors as being the course's instructors but which, in fact, farms the actual teaching out to post-graduate students, most if not all of whom are non-native speakers of English (!) and who have never even so much as set foot in a local school, let alone ever taught in one.

The terms 'jobs for the boys' and 'gravy train' spring to mind.