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by PsyGuy
Fri Aug 22, 2025 10:48 am
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: UK Teacher Discharged from Turkish Extradition
Replies: 6
Views: 6215

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No, it is editorial fluff.

Neither Judge Mcgava, the CPS, nor the English Courts have any jurisdiction or authority in deciding the merits of the case beyond extradition. Denying extradition is not an acquittal on the merits, evidence or facts in regards to Miss Pedos guilt or innocence against the child abuse charges in Turkiye. Any comment of Judge Mcgava, the CPS or the English Courts as a whole is nothing more than an opinion rendered with no more force or authority than any other opinion of someone who is not presiding or prosecuting the case in Turkiye.
by PsyGuy
Sat Aug 16, 2025 3:23 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Racist Comments
Replies: 7
Views: 62553

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@berry737

Youre assuming that all leadership is pro diversity and inclusion when there are plenty of leadership that believe discrimination is acceptable.
by PsyGuy
Sat Aug 16, 2025 3:20 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Search Associates - white people only?
Replies: 22
Views: 159554

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@Molson

ISs have gotten savvy enough in their posting and in their rejections that they can easily talk their way around discrimination even if SA were to push it with an IS. Even if they do take down a particular posting the IS is just going to reword and repost it.
by PsyGuy
Sat Aug 16, 2025 3:15 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: 24/25 Job Search
Replies: 13
Views: 205838

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@berry737

Many ISs dont use ATS.
by PsyGuy
Sat Aug 16, 2025 3:13 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: School still recruiting from certain countries only: THIS IS 2024!
Replies: 9
Views: 69675

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Theres also the issue that there are parents, leadership, and ISs that dont want a diverse or inclusive environment.
by PsyGuy
Sat Aug 16, 2025 3:07 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Economic Stability v/s Closer to Home
Replies: 2
Views: 39781

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Overseas. Holiday for about 1 month a year involving actual travel, whereas living and working for the other 11 months. Why go through all the woes and work for 11 months just to make the 1 month of holiday easier and less coin
by PsyGuy
Sat Aug 16, 2025 2:57 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Health Insurance for Dependents - UAE and Saudi
Replies: 7
Views: 5704

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::looking around for sid::
Well how long is a piece of string?

There is no uniform response to that query. ISs are going to differ. Without knowing what the medication is its difficult to answer. Is it experimental, or not globally available, does it need to be compounded, is it expensive?
In general (with very broad strokes) even with an IS that provides coverage for dependents the coverage tends to be basic. For preexisting conditions policies will cover consultations with a health care provider and common medications up to a reasonable amount. As things get more expensive the denials become more common, especially for dependents. An inhaler for chronic asthma, isnt going to be a problem (assuming the IS provides dependent coverage), repetitive bone marrow transplants for rare cancer, is going to be problematic. Where along that spectrum is your spouses condition?

The best answer your going to get is going to come from the ISs HR department, but understand that all they are doing is calling the insurer and asking, then relaying the information to you. They may not get an accurate response and no one really knows until the payment clears. Even then if its a very expensive treatment you may be required to pay the coin upfront and file for reimbursement by the provider. This may be something your personal finances can not absorb.

In The Kingdom be weary that you have fewer pathways to recourse if an IS either intentionally or unintentionally deceives you. They may say its covered only for you to realize after youve arrived and obligated yourself with travel and housing costs that you need an exit visa meaning requiring you to pay whatever amount of coin the IS says you owe, if you come to find out the medication is not covered or not even available.
by PsyGuy
Sat Aug 16, 2025 2:36 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Was last year a lighter hiring season?
Replies: 1
Views: 2919

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We are only 2 years post global COVID. While its August most of these staffing decisions were made about a year ago so even less time.
There were fewer posted vacancies with recruiting services but a substantial number of vacancies recruited and filled independently of outside recruiting avenues. ITs moved around locally and did so by checking HR websites of various ISs/DSs. So more local movement and less international movement. There also seems to be a mindset that had increased many ITs aversion to risk as a result of COVID and fueled by current political and economic factors that have increased ITs priority for stability.
by PsyGuy
Sat Aug 16, 2025 2:26 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Teacher Wrongfully Detained in Russia 2021
Replies: 6
Views: 47710

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He did know better.
In Russia there is a low level possession offense and a much higher possession and distribution offense. He knowingly brought the cannabis into Russia, he thought the low level offense which carries a fine would be imposed not the incarceration level much more serious offense. He was wrong.
by PsyGuy
Sat Aug 16, 2025 2:22 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Retirement Planning
Replies: 6
Views: 17307

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The Windfall Elimination Provision was discontinued in January 2025. DTs may collect both a SS benefit and a state pension and not be penalized on their SS benefit based on their state pension benefit. The issue however is you can only collect SS if you paid into it and if your paying into a state pension you are very likely as a US DT not making SS contributions. You would in essence have to have another form of employment either through an employer that paid SS contributions and collected the DTs portion of their contributions or engage in a form of self employment where you made all of the contributions.

IRAs and 401Ks require taxable income that you have to pay US taxes on to make contributions. If you use the Foreign Income Exclusion or Foreign Tax Credit unless you have taxable US income in some part you cant make contributions to either retirement vehicle. Further, a 401K would require a participating employer, which there are few in IE.

Social insurance pensions are not solely limited to the US/UK, many ITs would qualify for the regional pension system where they are employed. The issue is mobility rather than availability. Most ITs move around rather frequently between host nations where their pensions are not transferable. Once an IT settles on a location they can plan requirement around whatever social insurance pension scheme there is. Outside of Europe however many would not be very well off with pension schemes in Asia.

Thee are various other investment products available globally that an IT can use. This often means establishing some form of investment portfolio, and understanding that the IT will be fully funding whatever investments made without a guarantee.
by PsyGuy
Sat Aug 16, 2025 1:05 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Application strategy while still doing PGCE/QTS
Replies: 1
Views: 3107

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Short Answer: You should apply for all vacancies anywhere you would be comfortable traveling to.

Long Answer:

You are making choices before you have options. You need options first, thus you should apply for all vacancies anywhere you would be comfortable traveling to. If you wouldnt be comfortable living in China than maybe dont apply there (though you could use the opportunity to hone your interviewing skills ). The cost of application, even to ISs with very low probability of success, is almost if not zero. It takes less than a a minute to apply so your not saving much by not applying to vacancies you think are out of reach.

Youre not going to get much if any A levels experience and any experience you do get isnt going to generally be countable. Experience counts generally when the IT is the TOR for the course. Field Work experience generally isnt. You may have a class or lesson youre in charge of but you wont be issuing final marks/grades for the course, nor responsible for anything else outside of those lessons.

For on-circuit ISs your language ability is irrelevant as these ISs use English as their language of instruction. You have a better chance at lower tier off-circuit ISs, but youre host language ability probably needs to be better since their language of instruction is going to be in the host language.

Youre in a better position than most but just marginally. Youre IB and IGCSE experience is valuable and should be countable (though some ISs wont count experience prior to credentialing). Your minority status is going to work against you. Its not a wash though, the experience is a stronger advantage than your ethnicity is a weakness.

You have two options:
1) Off-Circuit - Youre going to be in the EUR during the year anyway start applying with the understanding your going to need to travel to interview in person.
2) On-Circuit - Apply for all vacancies anywhere you would be comfortable traveling to. Registering with SA through the UK office is free, as is TES, TIE will cost you about USD$50. The goal will be getting the highest tier IS you can.
Ideally if you can youre going to want to go to the BKK fair if you can get an invite and have the coin for the travel, otherwise the UK job fair is a good second and more convenient.

As to when. Youre not competitive for early recruiting yet but there are ISs that will want to lock in a maths IT vacancy as soon as they can. Most often the ISs that will respond to you are the ones hoping they can secure you before you have a later opportunity to see what youre really worth. You also dont want to apply so early that your application is forgotten as the pile of applicants grows larger and yours is closer to the bottom than the top. I wouldnt wait until December if your open to a lessor IS or think your lucky enough to be successful with early recruiting. If youre more comfortable forgoing early recruiting and want to focus on the main recruiting cycle than late November/Early December is a better target date.

As yo your resume or application. Put "Current", "Studying", "In progress", or some other indicator in the title with the future date you anticipate it being conferred. Avoid using the term "Conditional" in can imply you have a restricted or limited credential as opposed to studying for one. Include a brief statement of such at the beginning of your cover letter.
by PsyGuy
Sat Aug 16, 2025 12:24 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: UK Teacher Discharged from Turkish Extradition
Replies: 6
Views: 6215

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None of which means anything. The UK Court denying extradition doesnt resolve the case, its not a finding of innocence. Miss Pedo is still a wanted fugitive from a EU Country with an active red notice for her arrest from child assault charges in Türkiye.

The controlling phrase being "not a matter for the English courts". Everyone has an opinion and the English Court judges opinion in the matter is just editorial fluff. Defense experts are bias for the defense, of course their claims are going to favor the defense.
by PsyGuy
Thu Jul 31, 2025 9:27 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Estonia mandates B1-level Estonian fluency for international teachers
Replies: 5
Views: 48074

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@bekeanloinse56

I dont see the scenario of an IT arriving with Estonian language proficiency at the start of a contract.. Estonia already requires Estonian language fluency in IE, currently its at the B2 level, the new law will lower it to the B1 level, making it easier, but this proficiency requirement is for those who have worked in Estonia for 5 years (para. 6). So for ITs in Estonia it wont really change the landscape much, ITs will do 1 or 2 contracts and either start to learn the language so they can stay or they will cycle out of Estonia for other regions. As to elsewhere, the vast majority of regions typically have exceptions carved out for ITs who teach in non-host country language (ISs where the delivery of instruction is typically in English).
by PsyGuy
Thu Jul 31, 2025 9:19 pm
Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
Topic: Long Time International Teacher Faces Extradition for Alleged Abuse
Replies: 33
Views: 55902

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@NellyPB

I find your claims and statements wholly absent of merit, and your arguments unpersuasive.