The reviews beyond the pay-wall on this site are universally negative. Stay away! Boss appears to have 'issues' and you should be able to find better teaching gigs in Bangkok.

It's a pretty small school from what I understand - maybe around 100 students, whereas the KAUST school down the road has over 1000. The Rabigh oil refinery is nearby too. As for the compound - KAUST for example is all in one compound where women can drive, don't need to cover etc, but at KAEC it may be that the residential compounds are separate to the work environment. The package used to be less than KAUST, but the KAUST package has dropped recently so they may comparable. I'd take KAUST over KAEC if I could...

[quote="Trojan"]I have heard, on this forum, that what you say is true: some countries, like Saudi, I imagine, only allow the male to sponsor , not the female.[/quote]

Depends where you work in Saudi. At the KAUST School, female teachers can sponsor male trailing spouses (who then can pick up jobs as teaching assistants). I think this is one area where TKS differs from, say, Aramco schools...

I did Bangkok last year for the spring fair but only because I was local, missed the earlier fairs through stupidity, and it was my first free fair for Search.

I thought the quality of schools was fairly 2nd tier, 3rd tier with a few 1st tiers looking for very specific positions.

Having said that, I did get some very interesting offers, although none of which I took. It was excellent interview practice!

Ultimately I used Skype and the Search database (and a mass individual mail-out to around 50 schools across Asia and the ME) to secure 3 solid offers (two 1st tier, 1 2nd tier) after the fair, and I am very happy with my final choice! (school rocks, package rocks, and family are happy).

I have some friends there. They say the community is awesome - the compound has its own beach, free gym, yacht club where you can pay for snorkel/scuba/fishing trips in the Red Sea. You're about an hour from Jeddah and there are free buses there all the time. In compound, the commute to work is about 1 minute.

There may be some change in the package I'm not sure, but where it scores over Aramco, apparently, is that it hires female teachers with dependent spouses.

Long-time lurker, first-time poster and just thought I’d add my thoughts to the SA process. Not strictly relevant to the OP, but it gives you an idea I guess.

I’m a specialist teacher with over 10 years experience in international teaching at the same school, a non-teaching spouse (who has 5 years experience as an international school teacher’s assistant) and 1 child.

I resigned early to see what was out there but really didn’t start looking until after the winter break (by which time it was too late to join the ISS/SA Bangkok fairs in January).

Things to Do Differently Next Time 1: Resign as late as your contract allows but start looking as soon as you realize that this will be your final year at your current school.

I wanted to stay in the same place as I am now, but 20 odd applications to various first, second and third tier schools yielded just 1 interview in January (which went well but didn’t lead to a job), and a bunch of rejection emails.

I then registered for the SA Bangkok job fair in March. I didn’t know about ISS or any of the others.

The fair was interesting, and I got some “halfâ€