When I started ENS, I was one of the 80% new staff that started that year, when I left I was one of the 80% who left.

ENS gets new dedicated staff each year it has been in exsistence and every year the Arabic admin treat them badly. It does not matter how professional you are, how positive you are, or how dedicated you are.

When I started at this school I actually knew it had had problems with staff and was prepared to 'give it a go'. I am a very positive and professional teacher who thought I could turn a negative into a positive.

It's difficult to describe the nightmare of this school. The monitoring and reporting of conversations, the absolute incompetence of resource staff in being able to get resources to classrooms, the unfair working practices-being sick at this school was a nightmare, working with admin staff who had absolutely no educational qualifications but knew it all, and the thing I found the hardest, their complete lack of respect for western staff. We were treated like idiots whose every move needed to be monitored, we were not to be trusted. The new arabic staff were actually told by admin. not to trust western staff.

This school will always have the problems it has until it replaces its admin staff with internationally qualified and experience staff.

Beware, as a teacher at this school, no matter how hard you work, how professional you are, how dedicated you are, you will not be trusted or respected.

I worked for ENS and broke contract. I had never broken contract with a school before nor since. It was a biggie for me. I only had 5 months to go but what was happening at the school was unacceptable, both morally and professionally.
I have never written a negative report about ENS but I do monitor this site to make sure that someone is letting others know about the school.

I believe the 15/20 negative reports are just the tip of the iceberg not the reaction of a few.

I tend to live by the saying "If you can't say something positive, don't say anything at all" but... to stay silent on the subject of this school would be wrong, for the children, parents and teachers who are badly treated by the administration.

I worked very hard at this school and tried to improve the conditions there.The admin are just not intertested, they do not trust or respect their staff. I was actually aware that this school had some negative feedback before I started but believed that I could turn this around. I took the position on with this being part of the challenge.

Breaking contract was difficult. It's still difficult, don't underestimate this.