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ttwjr32

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private english schools
« on: July 11, 2010, 02:32:17 am »
 for those of you thinking of teaching here these are the schools that you must be very careful with as the
 most abuse of teachers are here. make sure you have a clear detailed contract in writing before accepting
 any position with these schools.

 do not under any circumstance accept just come here and we will get all the paper work finished as some schools
 try to do. also make sure they do have the certificate that enables them to employ foreigners in place before
 accepting any offer or to continue talking with them.

 and stay away from recruiters period!! if you have the credentials and enthusiasum you can find your own job in a
 matter of days thru good old footwork and cold calling different schools. somewere you will run into a school with an
 unadvertised open postion.

some places also have an area were the kids of students are kept while their parents are attending class and i know 2
people who work 5 hours sat and sunday reading to the kids between 12pm and 2pm  4pm till 7 pm and get paid 150 rmb
an hour to do this.  thats all they work each month which gives them 6000 rmb for the month to use as they wish. its a nice
supplement to their retrirement here in china.  but then again thats in guangzhou but im sure you might find this in other cities
as well

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Re: private english schools
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2010, 06:03:03 am »
13 July 2010

Battle intensifies for $2bn English-teaching business in China

Smaller providers, established in the early days of the English learning boom in China, are facing a bleak future in the face of corporate competition.
In South Korea, pushy parents who want their children to get ahead in learning English send them for an operation to elongate the tongue, in the belief that it will make pronunciation easier.

Such is the national obsession with having a fluent command of the language that drastic measures are taken in some cases when children are just six months old. China has not yet reached the same level of fanaticism over spoken English, but it is not far off. Chinese children with affluent parents are packed off to classes staffed by American, Canadian and British teachers as soon as they can speak. High school students are frequently enrolled in extra-curricular classes to cram for the English component of the university entrance exam. And young professionals aspiring to a more interesting and lucrative career flock to classrooms and online lessons and even stadiums alongside tens of thousands of other evangelical linguists.

To meet this rising demand, there are now an estimated 30,000 organisations or companies offering private English classes in China. The market has nearly doubled in size in the last five years and is now worth around $3.1bn.Disney English, a subsidiary of the US entertainment giant, has rapidly expanded since launching in October 2008, after thousands of parents signed their toddlers up for its special curriculum of Disney-themed classes. Today there are 11 schools featuring Mickey Mouse statues, Peter Pan text books and Little Mermaid teaching aids – eight in Shanghai and three in Beijing - and the company plans to double the number of locations by the end of the year.

Andrew Sugerman, Disney English's general manager, said: "We take children from age two to 12. Parents coming to our schools want their kids to start young, to reach a higher level of English. They want their kids to be comfortable communicating with others, particularly with foreigners, to be more competitive."Analysts are predicting growth across the private English school sector in China of between 12% and 15% in 2010 as disposable incomes in urban areas rise and a greater proportion of that money is funnelled into educating the next generation.

Privately owned EF Education First, which has more than 130 schools under the English First (EF) banner, including many that are franchises, has witnessed fierce competition as barriers to entry have come down and companies have found it relatively easy to enter the market to meet the demand."Like any growing industry, specialisation and segmentation have occurred and competition is much greater than before," said Ming Chen, EF's executive vice-president.

In this climate, big brands – both domestic Chinese and foreign – with marketing clout, nationwide reach and access to capital, have been carving up the market and gaining share from the tens of thousands of smaller, local schools.New York stock exchange-listed New Oriental, China's largest private education provider with 324 learning centres and schools, is best-known for its exam preparation training courses. Since its 2006 debut, its shares have more than quadrupled in value. In a recent analyst note, investment bank Goldman Sachs pointed out that the group's enrolments in the third quarter of the current financial year were up 18% year on year, ahead of expectations.

Chinese-owned Global Education & Technology group, which operates the Global IELTS brand, offering English language test preparation training at many of its 49 owned and 198 franchised schools, will be hoping to recreate similar shareholder value following its expected $100m initial public offering on the Nasdaq later this year.

There is also speculation that UK media giant Pearson, which last year bought the Wall Street English chain, with 39 schools in China, is preparing to invest further in the region, after earning a $1.6bn windfall from the sale of one of its subsidiaries. Analyst Lorna Tilbian at Numis in London said she expected Pearson to spend the cash on "emerging markets and digital technologies".As a clutch of dominant, national and increasingly professional English language schools emerges, several smaller, localised teaching institutions, with less marketing and investment firepower, have started to crack.

At the end of last year, a spate of bankruptcies at some of Shanghai and Beijing's longest-running language schools was at least partly linked to their failure to attract new students or top teachers in an increasingly competitive market. In the fallout it emerged that teachers and pupils at the collapsed schools were owed considerable amounts in unpaid wages and course fees and that many of the staff did not have proper teaching visas for China.EF Education First estimates that there are just 5,000 native-speaker English teachers with valid teaching visas in mainland China. With more than 300 million students in the education system who could potentially seek out private English classes, that suggests a major staffing shortfall.

To some extent, Chinese nationals with a strong command of English are able to step in, but many students – and their parents – still place greater value on native English speakers.Disney English's solution has been to recruit teachers with specific young-learner teaching qualifications in the US, and arrange appropriate visas. In addition the company has launched a China-wide recruitment drive.For qualified and experienced English teachers, the dynamics of the industry in China represent an opportunity. But for the thousands of small English language schools, unable to compete with the new breed of slicker professionals, times may be about to get significantly tougher.


There are more English teaching jobs here than you can shake a stick at! It really is a case more of, "Which job to take" rather than "If I find a job". Just do your homework first and read the contract carefully as Ted advises.

ttwjr32

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Re: private english schools
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2010, 10:55:40 am »
Paul i dont know were you get this stuff but another good post to help the members who want to teach.

on a side note stay away from Walton language school in haudou in guangdong province  DO NOT and i stress
DO NOT listen to anything Vivian says.  they are just bad bad bad news  i think they also have a school in Panyu

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« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2010, 01:22:15 pm »
This is good information. I have received a couple of letters of intent but I did not follow up because I don't have a TESOL certificate. Do you know the list http://www.esljobs.com they send me several new posting a day. It seems like there a tons of opportunities for teaching there.

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« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2010, 06:27:46 pm »
yes there are tons of opportunities here both commercial and private but like anything else please check them
out thoroughly. many of these boards have postings that are not what they say they are. a board for Shenzhen
is loaded with these types of people who try to recruit you and the job is half of what they said in wages and benefits.
forget the name but had lots of recruiters on it.

and stay away from recruiters you DONT need their help in getting a teaching job. and tesol is really not a definite
prerequisite for a job. just apply to what appeals to you and see if they get back to you.