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[spanglish]

I'll have just over 2 years post-CELTA experience (1 year with adults, 1 with teenagers) at the end of this academic year. I'd like to find the best pay/benefits possible with pleasant, motivated, adult students. I can't handle much air pollution or excessive city noise, so I guess that will limit my options.

I'm compiling a list of universities that have recruitment pages and looking for the ones with the best offers. Could anybody help point me in a direction for which schools, regions or cities I should look into?

[Laurence]

Although they are usually in their early 20s, I think it would be a bit misleading to describe the majority of Chinese university students as adults. 'Adolescents' would be far more appropriate.
Generally speaking, University is the way to go if you like the challenge of leading a very large group of teenagers without getting much academic support.

(Some, like me, do actually enjoy such scope for autonomy.)


There aren't many places in China where you can find employment away from traffic noise and pollution etc. (I can hear a herd of honking horns outside right now - visibility is relatively good though, I can see about five blocks).

There's one exception: Yangshuo.
Look it up on wikitravel.
Use your Google-fu to find schools there which cater to small groups of working adults.

[spanglish]

I hate the idea of going back to for-profit schools, but that may be more for me (I don't like the idea of leading large groups of teenagers, small size groups of enthusiastic, mature young adults would be perfect for me).

I'll look into Yangshuo, thanks for the tip. China seems to be so large and diverse that it's tough to answer specific questions.