It has all been said on here before.
The free market is what has happened. Several things are going on.
For employers the teaching market is not the gold mine it used to be. There is far more competition in the market. The new rich kids are fully catered for and now the middle and lower middle and even working class families are looking for classes. Initially the growth led to a glut of students, now there is a glut of schools competing with each other and fees have gone down.
Also for employers, costs have gone up, including rents. Imagine being located in a fancy mall.
For teachers there is competitive pay. The job will go to the suitable person who is willing to work for lower pay. There are more expats coming to Kunming. Yes there are quality issues with some teaching (pay peanuts, get monkies, de—motivate then and get problems), but many owners of the private schools don't care about that TIC. They will just wrongly complain about inept and expensive teachers.
For the customer parent/student you get the McDonalds effect. All the little diners, some of which produced real quality, have been replaced by burger bars. There is only room in any market for a few centres of excellelence.
Public sector pay has not moved, but that is regulated.
Trend noticed on here. I have seen employers openly advertise crap pay (120) and others have taken this as an anchor/example and others are now also advertising crap pay.
What can we do? Not much as this is market forces. The new visa regulations will cause a blip in the teacher supply thing for the first wave, but actually could even force rates down as some employers will use some borderline legal cases to leverage rates down IMHO.
One thing we can do is hit the employer where it hurts, by wasting their time and money. Actually apply for jobs you are not going to take, send resume (use bogus hotmail address), change name and photo, do the phone interview etc, and when you are offered the job, don't turn up, and send an email later saying 'crap pay mate'. IF WE ALL DID THAT.


Getting Away: Ximeng's Wooden Drum Festival
Posted byIt is so easy to rent a car and driver (local taxi) on day rates. You could also engage a local tour guide.
That way you can put even more back into the local economy, with the money going to locals, who will likely spend a good proportion of it locally.
Getting Away: Ximeng's Wooden Drum Festival
Posted byAwsome looking women, who actually have some meat on them.
Yunnan Baiyao sued over toxic ingredients
Posted byThere are lots of toxins, in lots of medicines. Even humble paracetamol can kill.
However, that is not what the article is about. The article is about the fact that there is a law suit.
The law suit is about labelling.
@eblair,
I suggest you learn to read and analyse before spouting off angrily.
Haigeng Park getting facelift
Posted by@Ocean
I for one am missing the significance.
Dianchi activists look to spotlight declining fish stocks
Posted byI think it was introduced, and they were going to harvest it and take it away.
I could be wrong, but they then found that they did not have a method to take it all away. It just ended up rotting and stinking on the shore last year.