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[desert_traveller]

hello everyone

if you work for or know of a vocational or technical training institute in jeddah where besides english other subjects such as science mathematics physics engineering etc are taught (in english) could you please drop me a private message or just put the name of the place here?

any info hugely appreciated

thanks a bunch

[2buckets]

Dallah-Avco used to, and may still have a contract with the Presidency of Civil Aviation, (PCA), teaching English and Maths first year, and then electronics, air traffic control, avionics and fire and rescue in the second year.

Dallah-Avco is a big Saudi consortium owned by Sheik Saleh Kamal, a pretty decent guy when I knew him. Always paid on time in cash. Fairly decent students as it is/was the only school in the kingdom and there was some competition to get in. 80-100 students in total. This info is some years old so things may have changed.

When I was there, the electronics teacher developed a "wastometer", (patent pending). A device that a student would place his hand on to determine how much "wasta" he had. If he had a lot, we just awarded him his certificate and sent him directly to the air traffic control tower. This freed up the teachers to concentrate on the serious students.

Contact Dallah-Avco. they used to have an office in Houston or Dallas, Texas.