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babur
Joined: 10 Aug 2010
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Location: Dammam, Saudi Arabia
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 Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 3:42 am Post subject: auaf warning! |
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AUAF job advertisment
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EFL Instructor
American University of Afghanistan
The American University of Afghanistan is looking for qualified ESL/EFL staff to work in the Professional Development Unit.
The Professional Development Unit provides a variety of language and capacity building courses to NGO's, government ministries, embassies, and organisations in Afghanistan.
Applicants need to be experienced ESL/EFL instructors with a minimum of two years experience. Experience working overseas a must |
... but viewed from a local perspective:
Welcome to auaf�s "Professional Development Unit", the institution which takes Afghans to the cleaners by convincing them they need to learn western business speak (by taking "language and capacity building courses") in order to rebuild their country. Got two years ELT under your belt, join us, "make a difference", hop on the gravy chain and help yourself to some of the cash ladled out by �donor� countries.
According to my sources in Kabul, lizard�s 2008 comments still apply:
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| If any of you consider yourselves to be professionals but don't listen to the warnings and join AUAF anyway... be prepared to be treated like the disposable EFL instructor that you are. You will be seen as just another instructor - one of many whom they feel they can easily recruit - and will be compensated as such. In fact, if you survive your first contract and think that you might want to stay for a second one, be prepared for a pay cut and fewer benefits to be offered to you... or you may be promised that a new contract is on the way for months and then get a 'thank you but goodbye' letter instead. Rather than keep the experienced professionals who want to stay, the management would rather bring in new faces who don't know the history of the institution. |
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| Although few people may agree, Afghanistan is a great place to work. The students are amazingly wonderful and teaching them is both rewarding and frustrating. However, when your management is a group of non-academics who have not stepped foot in the classroom for 20-30 years, and they are making decisions based more upon finances than what is best for your students, the overall experience is more frustrating than anything else. |
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Money runs the world, it runs the rebuilding/aid efforts in Afghanistan, and it - along with the VP of Finance - runs AUAf. But be aware - as the lowly EFL teacher that you are, you won't be getting much of it. Lizard
Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 |
And you'll no doubt still have to put up with cramped, shared accommodation and extortionately priced western supermarkets (one was levelled by a suicide bomber), which you will only be allowed to visit at prearranged times with an armed escort.
Afghanistan doesn't need foreign universities (where teachers receive over 10x what local staff earn) to cater for a few wealthy families whose children would much rather be in the US - which is where they'll be headed the moment they graduate.
Teachers applying to auaf only need to prove they have two arms and two legs |
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veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003
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Location: USA
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I'm curious babur... are you an Afghani who just resents the fact that this organization exists? ...or that it will have to pay foreigners salaries much higher than for the locals in order to get them to live and work in what can be a dangerous environment?
It seems to me that the one huge deficiency in Afghanistan is its lack of educational facilities from bottom to top. I would say that educational institutions are desperately needed at all levels... especially for women. As long as your populace is mostly uneducated, no country can progress.
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babur
Joined: 10 Aug 2010
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Location: Dammam, Saudi Arabia
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:21 am Post subject: esl teachers in their ivory rowers |
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| It seems to me that the one huge deficiency in Afghanistan is its lack of educational facilities from bottom to top. I would say that educational institutions are desperately needed at all levels... especially for women. As long as your populace is mostly uneducated, no country can progress. |
VeiledSentiments, please keep your racist, derogatory remarks to yourself!!!
You've obviously never been to a country like Afghanistan.
Sitting in your ivory tower, you believe everything you hear and see in the media.
The likes of you should have been banned from Dave�s caf� a long time ago |
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MsDooLittle
Joined: 25 Jan 2009
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Location: somewhere else
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I don't think VS was being racist, or derogatory.
She was merely pointing out that Afganisthan has a difficult history and may be a difficult place to work. |
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veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003
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Location: USA
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Yes, Babur seems overly sensitive... and perhaps a bit of a racist himself. And obviously knows nothing about me or my knowledge sources. I am rather known for regularly slamming the inaccuracy of the US media and missteps of my often hapless government.
But, the fact is that I know some of the serious, caring, and professional people that are involved in trying to upgrade the educational system of Afghanistan... individuals who have spent their lives in the Muslim world.
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