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Bisa Dong! · Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 24

Hi. I'm asking this on behalf of my friend. He has a BA in English Language Education and an MA in TESOL with good grades from reputable British universities but he has less than a year of teaching experience under his belt. Can he get a job in the Middle East, say KSA, and if so, what kind of salary will he be looking at? He's interested in university teaching.

helenl · Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 1202

I can't speak to KSA - but he certainly doesn't qualify for university teaching in the rest of the GCC without 3+post grad years teaching. I would suspect he might be hired by the bottom feeders in KSA and possibly elsewhere - he wouldn't enjoy the experience IMHO

Bisa Dong! · Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 24

Thanks, Helen. We didn't realise it was going to be that hard. Doesn't the fact that he graduated from two redbrick British universities account for anything?

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:07 pm Post subject:

Red bricks are pretty?

NCTBA

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

Tom Le Seelleur · Joined: 27 Dec 2007 Posts: 242

Cheeck out KFUPM in Dhahran KSA - nice easy job and they like young and keen.

Sheikh N Bake · Joined: 26 Apr 2007 Posts: 1307 Location: Dis ting of ours

I suppose the OP mentions "redbrick" in the sense that Americans use the term "brick-and-mortar" universities as opposed to distance degrees...althought normally the British term "redbrick" refers to all of the reputable UK universities that are not Cambridge or Oxford. One would hope he or she doesn't mean the person's education is considered superior to the rest of ours. If that were the case I would advise checking both the Chinese and the British international rankings.