Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Aussiekimchi]

I worked in the UK as a teacher for 2 years. That is how long Aussies are able to get a working visa there. I paid for my own flight and own accomodation.
There are teaching temp. agencies all over England. What basically happens is that you do a few temp jobs and when you find a school you like, and they like you, you are offered a term or a year or even 2 years.
It all seemed to work out really well. If you didn't like the school, you were free to leave. If they liked you, they would offer you more work.
It was a bit of a pain going from school to school each day, but the good teachers usually got asked back for regular work. And the good schools usually found it easy to get staff. People wanted to stay there.
On that visa, we were free to work anywhere we liked for as long as we liked, (well until our visa ran out).
Schools did not own you. And I really can't remember too many teachers complaining about life there.
Do you think this kind of system would work in Korea?

[tomato]

Such a system would be welcome by many directors who are tired of flying blind, as well as teachers who are tired of flying blind.

First, we would have to make such a system legal.
We know that the Assembly isn't going to listen to us, so our first step is to get the directors to listen to us so that the Assembly would listen to the directors.

It's election season now.
Shall we strike while the iron is hot?

[tzechuk]

It is a good idea in principle, but how is it going to work in practice?

Considering the fact that each time you change your employer you have to do a new visa run to a different country, it is going to cost the hagwon owners a heck of a lot of money to keep paying for these trips. I don't imagine immigration is going to change the law just to make this happen.

Nope, just can't see it.

[tomato]

You know why you can't fight City Hall?
Because there are too many people who say "You can't fight City Hall"!

[zappadelta]

[Aussiekimchi]

hey I have no delusions that it would ever come into affect here. But it bloody well should.
You shouldn't have to travel to another country with change of employer. The UK system allows you work anywhere in any school within a 2 year time frame.
Oh yeah, and only qualified teachers can do it.
One of the best teachers I ever worked with had no teaching experience or relevant qualifications, but there is an argument for teachers having a teaching degree before they are let lose on the general public.

[Pyongshin Sangja]

Yeah.