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goodwork002002 · Joined: 23 Oct 2009 Posts: 22 Location: Massachusetts, USA

I am told that there are some provinces in China where my age (63) will not be a problem given my vast teaching experience.

Does anyone KNOW which provinces/cities/schools these are?

Thank you!

ttorriel · Joined: 13 Oct 2008 Posts: 193

Already asked in the past two weeks.

Chris_Crossley

Wuhan City in Hubei Province - I should know, since I've been here more than eight years, am currently in my third full-time job in the city (and that has lasted almost five years alone), and have had quite a number of 60-somethings as colleagues during that time in all three places I have worked on behalf of, including a few who started out as EFL teachers despite being already of state retirement age, all of them men.

TexasHighway · Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 779

The O/P already started a similar thread:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?p=828065&highlight=#828065

Mr. Ed · Joined: 11 Feb 2010 Posts: 46

There are only two provinces where you absolutely cannot get an FEC if you are over 60 and they are Liaoning and Fujian and last year Liaoning made an exception for me but I did not take the job.

Beijing and Guangzhou regularly waive the rule.

The point is the contradiction. There are no absolutes in China

tomstone · Joined: 09 Dec 2009 Posts: 293

It doesn't depend on the province, it depends on the school.

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KarenB · Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 227 Location: Hainan

Several teachers in Hainan over 60 -- one is about 72, I think.

That doesn't mean it won't be a problem.

But if you look healthy and vigorous, you might do ok. They mainly don't want a teacher who's too tired to keep up with the students, or an old fuddy-duddy, or someone who is subject to illness.

slayer6719 · Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 1:50 pm Post subject:

Ummmmmmmmm even in Fujian the rule is not set in concrete. I know of at least one teacher in a university over 60 and at the mill i work at there is a fellow who celebrated his 61 st birthday last month! Laughing

Zero · Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 1402

Psalms 7l: 17-18 Oh God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

JamesD · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 12:22 am Post subject:

It does depend on the school's connections and relationship with the powers that be. I know two teachers in Liaoning well over 60.

Ariadne · Joined: 16 Jul 2004 Posts: 960

Re Fujian and being over 60... I'm at a university in Fujian that has several FTs in their sixities, including me. So, just like everything else in China, this 'rule' is not written in stone.

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