China is purging foreign teachers over the age of 60. No new visas.

[feisnik]

http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/12/foreign_teachers_in_china_who.php

[David K]

http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/12/foreign_teachers_in_china_who.php

[/i]

Bugger - there goes my Plan B - after getting certified in case settlement in NZ does not work out.  
But I imagine that where there is a will there is a way...that somehow the job will become reclassified as "administrative assisitant" or somesuch
....in the best oblique oriental tradition..... I'll be interested to see how this all unfolds... :icon_biggrin:
Must be very difficult for the folks such as the dudes in the article... that have to uproot 5 years of work and leave

[David5o]

David K,

If your married and living in China, you can make a pretty good living teaching English privately, so just take your plan B and move sideways in the true Chinese tradition...lol!!!

It takes years for things like this to filter down to the grass roots in China, they are not going to cut there noses off to spite there face.... They need English teachers 1000's of them. In all honesty this will gently die a very quite death like so many other great ideas they have, but haven't quite thought through the consequences until it's too late, so to speak!!

David....

[David K]

David K,

If your married and living in China, you can make a pretty good living teaching English privately, so just take your plan B and move sideways in the true Chinese tradition...lol!!!

David....

[/i]

Thanks for the words of encouragement David... and I'll pass this on to my Lovely Yan (pic in the Just for a Laugh thread) who also needs encouragement  :icon_biggrin:

[maxx]

What David is saying is true.It is all huff and fluff.If China really did this.There probably wouldn't be enough native English teachers.To teach in Beijing alone.Let alone the rest of China.How many thousand native speakers of English are they already short?

[feisnik]

Yet more about this purging and more possible reasons:
http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/12/yet_more_on_expelling_chinas_l.php

[brett]

My take on the situation is that people are expected to retire early in China in order to provide jobs for the next generation. This is what my lady told me, but who knows if it's correct. My lady's parents both retired in their 50's (mama was a school teacher, baba worked in an engineering company). Maybe Beijing has decided foreigners have to obey the same rules :icon_cool:.

[Paul Todd]

Good article Nik,Thanks

[Willy The Londoner]

Glad I picked up my new spectacles this week. I thought this thread said that there was no more viagra for over 60's.  I was worried in case I have a relapse in the future anmd needed another hit or two.


Willy

[ttwjr32]

hey Willy just stick with Yuyan and quit chasing the others and you wont need the viagra  
   hahahahahaha   hey still coming to gz this week?

[Willy The Londoner]

hey Willy just stick with Yuyan and quit chasing the others and you wont need the viagra  
   hahahahahaha   hey still coming to gz this week?

its going to be about 10 days before we get there. I have an appointment on 22nd so will be there before then.

Willy

[rockycoon]

They found a male donkey for that transplant willy....LOL

[ttwjr32]

looking forward to it. Sisi will be back from up north
 and all 4 of us could go out for dinner