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scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

KFUPM - and I assume other universities - have announced dates for the academic year 2010-2011

25 September to 31 January is Semester 1 with a vacation from 11 November to 21 November

Semester 2 starts on 1 February 2011 and ends on 25 June, with a break from 9 to 13 April

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

It is a break in the middle of the Semester. Sometimes this has been a long weekend. In 2010 and again in 2011 it is a week sandwiched between two weekends.

Further proof that universities are cool places to work - if you choose the right one. Certainly better than those places where Biggles and his pals teach Airforce Cadets which end of the screwdriver to use !

trapezius · Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 5:28 pm Post subject:

You should also be getting a week off between the two semesters.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Yes
I missed that out. 1-12 February is the break between the two semesters.

You see our holidays are too long !

kazazt · Joined: 15 Feb 2010 Posts: 164

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Different strokes for different folks. Incidentally my current income is around 3000 sterling a month. Do these Biggles characters really get 6000 ?

Good luck to them. I hope they are happy teaching their trainees how to fly Sopwith Camels.

kazazt · Joined: 15 Feb 2010 Posts: 164

I have only ever come across one TEFLer working for BAE that had been in the RAF and that was an old boy who had done his national service.

Teaching them to fly tornadoes is just as laughable as your place training engineers.

zooey · Joined: 25 May 2006 Posts: 35 Location: Riyadh

uncle scot- thanks a million for this calendar; ours are only available in arabic, and they are always behind the times (does that sound familiar?)

kazazt · Joined: 15 Feb 2010 Posts: 164

Of course the techies are but we are talking about TEFULLers.

It is not thoughtful of BAE-it is too keep the men on the compound where they can be kept an eye on and get up to less mischief. Many more of the employees get wasted in their accomodation than go in the bars. I imagine there must be stacks of drinkers at your place. Hell arent the AA meetings actually held on your campus?

trapezius · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 7:26 pm Post subject:

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Isn't 12,000 the starting salary? Remember Scot arrived at the same time as Lawrence of Arabia so he has moved up the pay scale I would imagine. Laughing

VS

kazazt · Joined: 15 Feb 2010 Posts: 164

But he left when things got a bit hairy and returned. Surely he had to start over again.

johnslat · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:21 pm Post subject:

Dear kazart,

"Surely he had to start over again."

Not necessarily. I left the IPA and returned three times, working other EFL jobs in other countries a couple of those times. Each time I returned, I started at the same salary level as I'd had when I left (which was, of course, different on each occasion I left,) plus the increments added on for my interim EFL experience.
So, I never started all over again. Scot47's probably moved up the ladder quite a ways by now.

Regards,
John

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

AA Meetings are no longer on the campus - try Aramco next door. No shortage of customers !

I am quite happy with my miserable salary and my long holidays thank you.Having seen how the BAe chappies defer (crawl ?) to their bosses, I also think I am a freer man than they are !