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Katzwyl
Joined: 19 Feb 2004
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Location: In Guangzhou
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 Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:22 pm Post subject: FT and FE |
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| What is the difference between Foreign Teachers and Foreign Experts? |
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rick_martin_78
Joined: 03 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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I'm not entirely sure about the difference between the two, but I do know that the benefits of being a foreign expert are likely due to the fact that you hold a Foreign Experts Certificate.
It's a really neato little booklet. I found it was most useful when i needed to send home money.
It was also useful when I returned to China after a two week trip home for xmas. My passport has so many chinese visa extensions and re-entry pages, that the airport people were a little slow in allowing me to go through.
but then I flashed the FEC, and they waved me through as if I were a chinese citizen.
It seems that the more "legit" a school is, the higher your chance of getting one of these FECs.
or at least that's my understanding.
anyone else have any thoughts? |
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Katzwyl
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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| rick_martin_78 wrote: |
It seems that the more "legit" a school is, the higher your chance of getting one of these FECs.
or at least that's my understanding. |
Are you saying that being hired by one of these schools is a way to obtain an FEC?
Are there any other ways of obtaining an FEC? |
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rick_martin_78
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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if there's another way, i'm not aware of it.
you'd need major govt guanxi to get one, I expect, and that usually can only be provided by a school...
the owner of the school i worked for supposedly had some ties with the provincial govt, and apparently that was enough. |
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gerard
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 2:31 am Post subject: |
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I have heard you need the FE card-red book- to legally convert currency and I think that is the only real difference.
If the dodgy (semi) institute that employs me now can get FE cards I dread to think of working for one onethat cannot even do this. Are you all not Experts???
Perhaps we should open a new board where only Foreign Experts are allowed to post.  |
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