New School Reviews
• Dar es Salaam International Academy Tanzania 3/31 evaluation 4
The school is badly ventilated and is generally just hot. The budget for teaching resources is a joke…
• American School Vietnam 3/31 evaluation 19
I really enjoy teaching at TAS, the spirit of the school is professional yet casual…
• Beijing International School BISS China 3/31 evaluation 7
Up until quite recently, the school had a good reputation. However, recent management strategies have gradually completely demoralized staff…
• Ambrit International School Italy 3/31 evaluation 3
Where does one start? We have all had our share of bad experiences in schools, and this was mine…
• British School Valencia Spain 3/30 First time reviewed on ISR
• The World Academy Saudi Arabia 3/30 evaluation 3
The housing for teachers look nice in pictures but are actually very poor in quality. There are parents who are allowed to terrorize teachers…
• Luanda International School Angola 3/30 evaluation 45
A recent decree by the Angolan government has stated that all foreign staff must be paid in local currency which is almost impossible to convert…
• British International School Jeddah Saudi Arabia 3/29 evaluation 10
I wish that I had known about this website and community of teachers prior to accepting my position at BISJ!..
• Canadian International School Japan 3/29 evaluation 10
People with no training or appropriate qualifications are given positions and the quality of the school hires has gone down over the past few years…
• Taipei European School Taiwan 3/29 evaluation 12
Staff are leaving in droves and are replaced by friends of management…
• Ajman Academy UAE 3/29 evaluation 4 Rubric Only
• GEMS World Academy Etoy Switzerland 3/28 First time reviewed on ISR
• International School Choueifat UAE 3/28 evaluation 2
You are housed with 2-3 other teachers but at least you have your own bathroom. You need to split the internet with someone who has a resident visa…
• American School Foundation Monterrey Mexico 3/28 evaluation 10
The school just implemented a random drug testing policy for all high school students and all staff starting Fall 2017…
• Korea International School Jeju Korea 3/28 evaluation 14
When I was hired at KIS, my first thought was wow, I’ve made it to a tier 1 school. I should have done more research…
• Al Jazeera Academy Doha Qatar 3/28 evaluation 32
Ta-allum runs a group of schools in Qatar and as an Educ. Management Company they manage to tick some of the boxes for knowing what they are doing…
• Nagoya International School Japan 3/28 evaluation 10
The students are the nicest, most hard working, and politest kids and the experience of living in Japan for a while is one that a lot of us like…
• American School Ulaanbaatar Mongolia 3/27 evaluation 25
It is unfortunate that the students are so sweet and the directorship so fluid, because otherwise the choice would be very easy…
• British School Nanjing China 3/27 evaluation 8
Classes are very small; almost to the point that the right level of interaction between students conducive to productive learning is inhibited…
• Canadian International School Beijing China 3/27 evaluation 4
If you can hack the environment, and can get over the initial weak-salary hump, this is a great place to work…
• King’s School Manila Philippines 3/24 First time reviewed on ISR
• Canadian International School Japan 3/24 evaluation 9
The school runs the IB PYP along with the PEI in elementary, but it is a complete mess…
• British School Bucharest Romania 3/24 evaluation 3
It’s a good school to work in, kids are mostly a delight, management are fair, open and trustworthy…
• Al Forsan International Schools Saudi Arabia 3/24 evaluation 2
If you are looking for a place where your managers will support you, and have your back then this is the wrong place to be…
• British School Costa Rica 3/23 evaluation 4
The school is a good place to work and there are some very supportive staff. The students themselves are really nice…
• Nord Anglia International School Shanghai China 3/23 evaluation 11
I went through quite a few regime changes, of one sort or another, and I would say the school was never without issues…
• Doha English Speaking School Qatar 3/23 evaluation 3
DESS will continue to be proud to be the establishment it has grown to be and will continue be one of the leading schools in Doha…
• Doha British School Qatar 3/23 evaluation 6
If you end up in trouble, for whatever reason, with a local you are on your own. The school don’t care and your embassy won’t help…
• Aqaba International School Jordan 3/22 evaluation 7
A warm welcome is waiting for you if you want to work in an atmosphere of fear, spies, and tattlers…
• Haileybury Almaty Kazakhstan 3/22 evaluation 12
Things have been going from bad to worse this year and teachers are being put under tremendous pressure…
• Taipei European School Taiwan 3/22 evaluation 11
I am leaving due to constant increases in workload, ever changing initiatives and no clear direction or vision by management…
• British School Brasilia Brazil 3/21 First time reviewed on ISR
• Confucius International School China 3/21 evaluation 8
This has been the worst year of my life and I cannot wait to leave…
• Magen David Academy Panama 3/21 evaluation 7
Every year there is a minimum of 80% turnover in faculty and admin. Apparently the board thinks that they can just start over every year…
• Nova International School Sudan 3/21 evaluation 4
Remember, once there you cannot leave at will. You cannot leave without an exit visa, which the school has to obtain for you…
• Arab Unity School UAE 3/20 First time reviewed on ISR
• Confucius International School China 3/20 evaluation 7
CISCD is a vibrant, well run school with excellent and well behaved students and an effective administration…
• GEMS World Academy Singapore 3/20 evaluation 6
It’s a new era and everyone wants it to work. It’s time for people who are not on board to leave the rest of us to it…
• Jeddah Knowledge School Saudi Arabia 3/20 evaluation 21
I can easily say that the progress I have made in my professional career has been solely due to JKS and the opportunities they have given me…
• Doha English Speaking School Qatar 3/17 evaluation 2
DESS is an incredible school and has just recently received an Outstanding report from a monitoring inspection…
• American Cooperative School Tunis Tunisia 3/17 evaluation 23
This school has been under stress in the last three years. This stress is caused from dropping enrollment and a difficult board…
• British School Costa Rica 3/17 evaluation 3
There is a culture of students being encouraged to complain about teachers at the school…
• Saltus Grammar School Bermuda 3/17 evaluation 3
If you are happy to float for a few years and get very little satisfaction from your job this is the school for you…
• International School Verona Italy 3/16 First time reviewed on ISR
• King’s College Panama 3/16 First time reviewed on ISR
• Internationale Schule am Rhein Germany 3/16 evaluation 15
This has been a professional experience like no other – and this is not meant in any positive tone…
• English Modern School Doha Qatar 3/16 evaluation 16
Overall, it’s a mess. The motto is “A Place Where We Belong” but that’s definitely not the case in the high school…
• American Creativity Academy Kuwait 3/15 evaluation 39
Requests for things, like a classroom set of a book, is met with derisive laughter, as if asking for books at a school is the punchline to a joke…
• Edison International Academy Qatar 3/15 evaluation 10
I was only with Edison for a number of months, but didn’t meet or know anyone who liked their job…
• Tenby Schools Ipoh Malaysia 3/15 evaluation 4
Expats beware – you are not wanted on the campus, and there is huge resentment about the gulf in pay between these ‘visitors’ and the local staff…
• Aqaba International School Jordan 3/15 evaluation 6
With regards to teaching and the students it is like any other school, you will have your good students and the ones that will challenge you…
• British School Caracas Venezuela 3/14 evaluation 14
TBSC has been professionally fulfilling for me, I will leave a much better teacher and person…
• GEMS World Academy Singapore 3/14 evaluation 5
The appointment of the new head is a positive step. I just hope he has been briefed. Teachers, students and parents expect more…
• Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) UAE 3/14 evaluation 35
ADNOC has falling salaries and not reputable recruiting agency will use them…
• Al Khor International School Qatar 3/14 evaluation 64
At the end of the day, if you want a school with a great group of kids, some wonderful staff, and friends you will cherish, then AKIS is for you…
• Doha English Speaking School Qatar 3/13 First time reviewed on ISR
• Skagerak International School Norway 3/13 evaluation 5
The parents at the school value the teachers highly. We are most happy to welcome new teachers and even help them settle down…
• American Creativity Academy Kuwait 3/13 evaluation 38
The schools make a lot of money so you would expect it to have many resources available. However, this is far from the truth…
• Dhirubhai Ambani International School India 3/13 evaluation 3
For a two-year gig, I think most experienced international teachers would be fine here. Certainly that has been my experience…
• Confucius International School China 3/13 evaluation 6
With huge shifts in the school culture and student/teacher motivation levels, it has been an enormously turbulent and testing time for the school…
• New Gateway International School Cambodia 3/10 evaluation 2
In the past, things were really bad. There have been a lot of positive changes in the last year…
• Nova International School Sudan 3/10 evaluation 3
If you are looking for a family orientated, well kept, and safe school then look no further…
• Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) UAE 3/10 evaluation 34.1 Response to Ghayathi Campus Review 34…
• New Cairo British International School Egypt 3/10 evaluation 13
The bad news is that during my short time at this school, I saw no less than half a dozen changes in the administration department…
• Chongqing Bachuan International School China 3/9 First time reviewed on ISR
• Aqaba International School Jordan 3/9 evaluation 5
I have seen foreign staff come and go. Only the good ones make impact and the bad ones leave…
• Dubai International Academy UAE 3/9 evaluation 8
This was the most demanding roll I have ever encountered. It was obvious that the hierarchy had no clue of the roll of a classroom teacher…
• Alexandria International Academy Egypt 3/9 evaluation 2
Maybe once the school has built it’s own campus and is legally recognized by the government it would be a decent place to be…
• Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) UAE 3/7 evaluation 34
Salaries have gone down due to the crash in oil prices. Teachers have done runners…
• Gyeongnam International Foreign School Korea 3/7 evaluation 15
The curriculum organisation is a joke. Nobody really knows what they are supposed to do, but are quickly told what is wrong…
• Bilingual European School Italy 3/6 evaluation 2
Working with an Italian co-teacher is a refreshing way to look at curriculum, and invites rich discussions and very creative results…
• Affiliated HS South China Normal University China 3/6 evaluation 2
In the fall of 2016 two tragedies befell the school… Neither issues was ever addressed to the staff by the administration…
• Greenwood High International School India 3/3 First time reviewed on ISR
• Repton School Dubai UAE 3/3 evaluation 11.1
Message from Senior School Principal
• Tenby Schools Setia Eco Park Malaysia 3/3 evaluation 4
Parents gave a deadline to Tenby management to make arrangements for positive changes…
• American School Milan Italy 3/3 evaluation 11
At this school there is little to no support, appreciation or sense of community…
• Ayeyarwaddy International School Myanmar 3/2 evaluation 10
The contracts are ‘at will’, leaving room for the school to fire whoever they want, whenever they want…
• Leman International School Chengdu China 3/2 evaluation 2
China is not for everyone. You definitely need to be an adaptable person. But for me, it’s been a wonderful post…
• Dukhan English School Doha Qatar 3/2 evaluation 16
There was a whole school staff briefing today privy to a 25 second demonstration of how to close a gate properly. I kid not…
• Edison International Academy Qatar 3/1 evaluation 9
Edison is a place to work if you want to have an international experience in a medium sized school where you can make an impact…
• Confucius International School China 3/1 evaluation 5
Students are easy to teach with zero behaviour problems…
• American British Academy Oman 3/1 evaluation 10
ABA will be a great place to work once the administration finds their way and starts leading the staff and students properly again…
• Dukhan English School Doha Qatar 3/1 evaluation 15
All the descriptions you need are found on ISR reviews of the worst schools. Dysfunctional and not changing anytime soon…