LettersAthruZ
Joined: 25 Apr 2010
Posts: 466
Location: North Viet Nam
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 Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 8:10 am Post subject: Re: Teaching in Hue 2012 |
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| knightofco wrote: |
As one Vietnamese teacher there tells me, the local schools and citizens have always had the option of free teachers and classes so why pay either for teachers or classes? The after school language Centers pay quite modestly.
Anyway an update on an otherwise appealing city would be appreciated.
Camung |
About two-and-a-half years or so ago in Ha Noi (and about 12 months ago in Hai Phong), they had started a program where taxpayer cash was distributed out as block grants to public schools and the public school was supposed to go out and hire ITS OWN TAY ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR for the school's English classes....
What ACTUALLY DID end up happening is that these schools went out and didn't hire THEIR OWN Tay English teacher, but rather established "good relationships" (e.g. - large amounts of cash changing hands in plain brown envelopes) with some of the larger private English schools/centres in these two cities who THEN became de facto employment agencies and would rent out their own Tay teachers (usually at s**t salaries) to the public schools while the school/centre itself raked in the coin from this deal!
Because of the low salaries paid to the actual teacher in this scam, the quality, educational level and actual classroom teaching experience of several of these instructors that get farmed out by the large, private English schools and centres to the local public schools is dubious at best.....
| knightofco wrote: |
| The lack of local discernment between volunteeer and payed is self evident in the product/results there. |
Hell, Hai Phong private university (a FOR-PROFIT institution - NOT to be confused with Hai Phong PUBLIC university) suckers in gullible Australian teens with promises of "....volunteering to teach English to the severely underprivileged in the nation of Viet Nam" and, when they arrive, then they suddenly realise that they are inside Viet Nam's third-largest city as opposed to a tiny rural village, that Hai Phong PRIVATE is a for-profit money-making University, and that they've just been had!!
But it makes for good padding on the CV if you can say you volunteered to teach English to the natives in a third-world country..... |
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