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[sisyphus]

Im looking to do a Delta and then find a post in the UAE. As i have been working in efl for many years but poorly paid i would like to earn a decent salary for a few years, any recommendations of best paid gigs ie Oil companies etc?cheers.

[helenl]

If you do a quick search you will see there are several threads over the past 3-4 months concerning your query.

Better employers usually require a related Master's degree and post graduate experience.

[sisyphus]

Thanks Helen, i will search. I have a lot of experience but no Masters Tesol etc...i wonder if it's the same all over the ME or just the UAE.

[helenl]

All the better employers usually require a related master's + experience in the GCC. Not sure how the DELTA fits into the mix. (GCC includes Saudi, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman, UAE, and Kuwait). If you have a teaching credential from your home county you may be eligible for the better international schools.

[veiledsentiments]

If your goal is to teach in the Gulf at the highest paying jobs, get a related MA. Whether it is more or less helpful to your skills is a long debated question, but an MA is what the best employers want to see if you want to teach adults.

The rest of the Middle East outside the Gulf isn't as keyed into MAs, but doesn't pay all that well except for a few of the more prestigious universities - which do require MAs.

Not much oil company teaching in the UAE...

VS

[Tom Le Seelleur]

sisyphus
The DELTA will be far more use to you in the long run than an MA if you want to keep getting the higher paid jobs in the oil industry as they recognize the practicality that the DELTA holds over an MA. I would suggest you get your DELTA and apply to HCT (WRP) or Cert in the UAE or better still ADEC who are looking for teachers with a recognized teaching qualification rather than an academic one ege MA. The British Council crave teachers at DELTA level and they pay a pension etc..
You might want to find out about BAE in KSA and what they demand as they are the higher payers in the GCC. Libya is also an excellent gig especially if you get a decent roatation job. (Dont accept anything less than �25K pa and 6/3 rotation though Bell offer a resonable package. Another great location for decent pay is Khazakstan where they actually pay engineers salaries ie �400 a day + expenses. It all depends on why you want the DELTA - the money or the step up in recognition.
An MA is good if you want to join the university set in the UAE. The benefits can be good, hours are short and holidays generous - depends if you have a family or not and where you want to go after the Gulf.
Hope this helps.
Tom

[sisyphus]

Thanks everyone, really appreciate that.
I want to do the Delta , i have a family so im not sure the best way to do it,short term intensive or over a year etc..i fear the short 10 week intensive Delta might be just too much..although i suppose you get it done asap. Does anyone know the pass /fail rate on the intensive Deltas? If you read all the texts beforehand does this give you a better chance?
I plan to try and earn some money over the next few years , say with Oil companies etc, but longer term i want to do an MA ...

[spicegirl]

... the pass rate is considerably lower, traditionally, on the shorter intensive DELTA courses. This is probably because there is much less time for assimilation of the work covered, etc. Also, you'd be writing an essay a week, instead of 1 or 2 a month. You wouldn't have so much time to plan your assessed lessons, nor would you have so much possibility to try them out on a different class and make any adjustments you need to make. You'd be preparing observed classes 2 or 3 times a week, instead of a couple of times a month, and would be in a constant state of stress.

Of course, this doesn't mean that you wouldn't pass, but you'd stand a much better chance if you did the longer course. It depends how experienced and flexible a teacher you are, I guess, and whether or not you've already done any kind of basic teacher-training course such as the CELTA, which will have prepared you for the rigours of the DELTA.