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Forums > Living in Kunming > english language teacher

Dudeson is always full of doom.

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The international schools will pay that if you're a licenced teacher back home with A Level / IGCSE experience, or an IELTS examiner.
You'll aslo have to go to one of the 'full' international schools ie. no Chinese student registration.

You'd have to check the Times education suppliment, but you can always knock on KIA's door.

The other way is to come to one of the international departments to teach the international foundation years. For this you'll need to be referred there by the overseas university. Try Yunnan Uni (I think they have one) or AIA.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > english language teacher

Keep an eye out on this website for a position you like. Jobs in Yunnan are rarely advertised anywhere else that I've seen.
Failing that ask an agent and give them the parameters that you'll only consider something in Yunnan. A good agent will charge the finders fee to the school and take nothing from your end if you get the job.
Salary for the Dingly Dangly school of English could be as low as 3,500-4,000 but if you are experienced then you should keep well away from that side of the market.
Average training centres or government schools may pay between 8,000-15,000. If you get a job in a senior school then you may find yourself with a light workload. If you go the training school route then expect a heavy workload and little thanks.
Universities pay pretty low, round the 5,000-6,000 mark as that's strictly controlled by the government, but you should be able to work some extras into the deal if they are really keen on you and you'll have aruond 12-15 classes a week.
If you have your certs in order then go for an international school job, you'll be looking at 25,000 plus for the full international school (Around 12 -16,00 for an international department in a government school).

All these jobs should come with insurance and accommodation. If no accommodation is mentioned then expect a couple of nights stay in a hotel and a stipend on your salary to arrange your own accommodation.

Seeing as you're outside of the country the visa process will probably be that once you have a job lined up the school will send you some documents in order to apply for a visa with the embassy in London. This can all be done through an agent, there's no need to apply in person. Once you have that visa (presumably the work visa) you'll come to China (The school will buy you a ticket) and within 30 days they will get you a residence permit, for which you'll need to have a medical and show a clean bill of health and you'll have to register yourself at your address (If the school are providing accommodation they will do all this)

Once you've got this you can claim back your ticket (If you bought it yourself) and you will be issued health insurance.
They'll probably give you a map of the city and a bus card or a mandarin course voucher or something as a welcome.

And then you're away...

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Two foreign English teachers deported in north Chi

Why so many illegals? That's what I'm asking. There shouldn't be.

The shame of being an American working illegaly in China. That should never happen should it? According to some on here everyone is better off in America.

Why do people tolerate fake teachers?

Because I have no idea who the fake teachers are. As do most people I would imagine. Unless a CV ends up on my desk I wouldn't know one from Adam unless I observed a class. Then again, I've seen people with education MAs teach like they've just fallen out of bed.

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At the same time more fool a plane full of people who when realising this could delay their flight, didn't stick their ore in and say "there's a plane full of people here who have paid money and want to fly to wherever and get on with our days, but we can't because you two shitbags think you're a bit special."

Same goes for the airplane staff, then the security, police have had to get involved in a lovers tiff and the plane has been delayed because no one wanted to do anything outside of their remit.

About that entry point - as far as I know Schengen visas will be issued for the first country of entry (Which would be France on the Paris trip) OR the Euopean country you plan to spend most time in. So, providing you wanted to stay in Czechoslovakia for most of the time, this visa would be useful. Check this though as I used that method around 5 years ago. If it's no longer available to do that then a transfer (Paris to Prague) would be the solution. No?

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