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- Sun Nov 14, 2021 3:29 am
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: Out side China job offers
- Replies: 13
- Views: 27741
Re: Out side China job offers
Most schools are still considering offers outside China, but if you come up alongside someone who is already here then if everything else is equal they'll go with the person in country, simply because it's a lot less hassle. If you have dependants, though, you can pretty much forget it for the moment because very, very, very few schools - and we are probably talking a handful nationwide - have been successful in getting dependants in recently and most aren't bothering to try now.
- Sun Nov 07, 2021 8:28 pm
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: Chances of getting hired with my subject degree from the Open University? Advice needed!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7125
Re: Chances of getting hired with my subject degree from the Open University? Advice needed!
The Open University is an accredited university with the same standing in the UK as any other, so I don't think you'll have a problem with recognition.
The requirement for the 'first subject' degree is often more of a visa requirement than anything else. Where you're looking, in Europe and the Americas, it's more likely to be a requirement of the school than anything else, and certainly in Asia it's not so common (I know plenty teachers who teach subjects not related to their degree, myself included!) The UAE is one of the few countries which requires this, I think.
The requirement for the 'first subject' degree is often more of a visa requirement than anything else. Where you're looking, in Europe and the Americas, it's more likely to be a requirement of the school than anything else, and certainly in Asia it's not so common (I know plenty teachers who teach subjects not related to their degree, myself included!) The UAE is one of the few countries which requires this, I think.
- Tue Oct 12, 2021 7:50 pm
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: Questions about timing
- Replies: 27
- Views: 55124
Re: Questions about timing
TBH, not really. Make sure your licenses are up to date, and that you're doing plenty CPD. Keep an eye on these boards, and also on places like TES to get a feel for what jobs are coming though and when - hopefully, by 2023 the market should be something more like normal so you're able to predict what's happening.
You could get the Cat 1 qualification for your subject in IB, but it's not essential ahead of getting a job, and if you do get it I'd leave it until nearer the time so it reflects what you'd be teaching immediately. What I would say is that while your AP experience will be valuable in teaching in an American school, if you want to get into IB then you could look now if an opportunity comes up in an IB school in the US.
You could get the Cat 1 qualification for your subject in IB, but it's not essential ahead of getting a job, and if you do get it I'd leave it until nearer the time so it reflects what you'd be teaching immediately. What I would say is that while your AP experience will be valuable in teaching in an American school, if you want to get into IB then you could look now if an opportunity comes up in an IB school in the US.
- Tue Oct 12, 2021 3:00 am
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: Where should I apply/next steps? (IB math teacher)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11828
Re: Where should I apply/next steps? (IB math teacher)
UK - no teaching certification will definitely be a problem. (But why on earth would you want to move to the country of Boris' Basket Case?)
- Tue Oct 12, 2021 2:55 am
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: Countries and Schools not accepting Teachers with Families.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 14569
Re: Countries and Schools not accepting Teachers with Families.
I think if the school has enough guangxi then they can get dependants in, but I think in Beijing it's pretty much no dependants - even schools who have managed miracles in the past aren't getting those visas.
- Sun Sep 26, 2021 7:20 pm
- Forum: Forum 2. Ask Recruiting Questions, Share Information. What's on Your Mind?
- Topic: SHANGHAI schools - subsidized tuition for 2 kids?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 34934
Re: SHANGHAI schools - subsidized tuition for 2 kids?
But if the tuition is taxed, and the teacher has to pay it, it isn't really free, is it?
That actually poses a problem for schools who advertise on some sites, such as TES - UK advertising rules would not allow TES to advertise something as "free" if it incurs a cost. They can't even be described as 'subsidised' because the tax is due on the full amount, regardless of subsidy. So advertising will be difficult.
It also reflects reality. Most teachers simply aren't going to absorb that level of tax easily. So from a Head's point of view, it's much better simply to advertise for single applicants / teaching couples with no dependants rather than attempt to find a place for a family. Also, given the current visa restrictions on dependants in China and with no indication of when that will change, schools would be daft just now to appoint staff with dependants.
That actually poses a problem for schools who advertise on some sites, such as TES - UK advertising rules would not allow TES to advertise something as "free" if it incurs a cost. They can't even be described as 'subsidised' because the tax is due on the full amount, regardless of subsidy. So advertising will be difficult.
It also reflects reality. Most teachers simply aren't going to absorb that level of tax easily. So from a Head's point of view, it's much better simply to advertise for single applicants / teaching couples with no dependants rather than attempt to find a place for a family. Also, given the current visa restrictions on dependants in China and with no indication of when that will change, schools would be daft just now to appoint staff with dependants.
- Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:26 pm
- Forum: Forum 2. Ask Recruiting Questions, Share Information. What's on Your Mind?
- Topic: Open University or Online degree from 'regular' UK university?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 21807
Re: Open University or Online degree from 'regular' UK university?
I think the OP is talking about a 1st degree, so Batchelors maybe?
Typical Oxbridge elitism though. Only consider people with 1sts or 2:1s, despite grade inflation. There are actually better schools of education in the UK than Oxford, TBH, and setting aside the 'snob' value of Oxford I'd look at others ahead of them.
Typical Oxbridge elitism though. Only consider people with 1sts or 2:1s, despite grade inflation. There are actually better schools of education in the UK than Oxford, TBH, and setting aside the 'snob' value of Oxford I'd look at others ahead of them.
- Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:00 pm
- Forum: Forum 2. Ask Recruiting Questions, Share Information. What's on Your Mind?
- Topic: SHANGHAI schools - subsidized tuition for 2 kids?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 34934
Re: Discussion
Heliotrope wrote:
> PsyGuy wrote:
> > Because those waivers will be taxable as compensation AND ISs will not be
> > able to discount the value of those waivers based on incremental cost or
> > some other formula to get around it. Chinese ISs even lower tier ones
> > charge really high fees/tuition making the applicable tax unattractive and
> > prohibitive. Some ISs (mainly first/elite tier)will continue to absorb the
> > tax as part of the ITs compensation, but then that increases the ITs
> > taxable compensation as well (now the tax benefit on those fee/tuition
> > waivers is taxable in of itself), and its kind of a vicious cycle. Its just
> > going to make China unattractive to ITs with school age dependents.
>
> Yes, that makes it unattractive for teachers, but what I was asking was why it would
> change that schools offer a certain number of spots to teacher's children, since the
> tax burden is for the teacher to pay and not for the school.
> The second part of your first sentence is a bit unclear, so perhaps that is where you
> tried to explain it.
Because the tax burden is so high - it effectively adds another £30,000 - £40,000 to your income to be taxed - that the likelihood is most teachers with kids simply won't be able to afford it. This produces an additional tax levy for the teacher of around £6000 - £7000 per child, per year, without a corresponding increase in their take-home salary. So for three kids, that could mean finding up to £21,000 per year from your income - that's around 1/3 to 1/2 a teacher's income, ruling out China as a realistic option for single parent teachers and making it incredibly difficult for teaching couples.
As a result, schools simply won't offer this if they know it could result in people withdrawing from jobs once they realise the total cost. It's just easier to not have this than try to explain or mitigate it fairly, taking into account those teachers who don't have kids.
> PsyGuy wrote:
> > Because those waivers will be taxable as compensation AND ISs will not be
> > able to discount the value of those waivers based on incremental cost or
> > some other formula to get around it. Chinese ISs even lower tier ones
> > charge really high fees/tuition making the applicable tax unattractive and
> > prohibitive. Some ISs (mainly first/elite tier)will continue to absorb the
> > tax as part of the ITs compensation, but then that increases the ITs
> > taxable compensation as well (now the tax benefit on those fee/tuition
> > waivers is taxable in of itself), and its kind of a vicious cycle. Its just
> > going to make China unattractive to ITs with school age dependents.
>
> Yes, that makes it unattractive for teachers, but what I was asking was why it would
> change that schools offer a certain number of spots to teacher's children, since the
> tax burden is for the teacher to pay and not for the school.
> The second part of your first sentence is a bit unclear, so perhaps that is where you
> tried to explain it.
Because the tax burden is so high - it effectively adds another £30,000 - £40,000 to your income to be taxed - that the likelihood is most teachers with kids simply won't be able to afford it. This produces an additional tax levy for the teacher of around £6000 - £7000 per child, per year, without a corresponding increase in their take-home salary. So for three kids, that could mean finding up to £21,000 per year from your income - that's around 1/3 to 1/2 a teacher's income, ruling out China as a realistic option for single parent teachers and making it incredibly difficult for teaching couples.
As a result, schools simply won't offer this if they know it could result in people withdrawing from jobs once they realise the total cost. It's just easier to not have this than try to explain or mitigate it fairly, taking into account those teachers who don't have kids.
- Tue Sep 21, 2021 7:49 pm
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: LinkedIn
- Replies: 12
- Views: 17766
Re: LinkedIn
The problem I'm finding is that being in China, I'm bombarded with "recruitment agents" offering roles at schools which I wouldn't consider in a month of COVID-infected Sundays. That said, there are some schools and organisations on there who are more reputable and while I wouldn't necessarily make contact with them on the site, there could be some useful information (likely to be more up to date than their website) which I could use in an application or interview if it got to that.
- Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:12 pm
- Forum: Forum 2. Ask Recruiting Questions, Share Information. What's on Your Mind?
- Topic: SHANGHAI schools - subsidized tuition for 2 kids?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 34934
Re: SHANGHAI schools - subsidized tuition for 2 kids?
The Boots school will take up to three, while the Boring Witch and the Hilltop school will take two.
Of course, that will change because of the tax rules from next year.
Of course, that will change because of the tax rules from next year.
- Sun Sep 12, 2021 8:41 pm
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: End of Non-T1/T2 Schools in China? Or Just Rumors?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7647
Re: End of Non-T1/T2 Schools in China? Or Just Rumors?
I think it depends (like much in China) on where you are and who you know in power. I know of a couple of schools which are making specific preparations for a switch to a more Chinese-based curriculum, and equally other (T1) schools who are fairly confident they're not covered.
The thing is that the parents at the private schools - and particularly the so-called 'rent a name' schools - believe that they are paying for the education that the mother school provides, including things like IGCSE. If these schools can't provide it, they are not going to be happy - the parents who can will send their kids off to the UK/US boarding schools earlier, and those who can't will either just perservere or remove the kids to the state system (after all, if the kids are using the same textbooks, being taught the same lessons, and sitting the same exams, where's the sense - other than pride - in paying £30,000 per year for it if you can get it for nothing?)
The thing is that the parents at the private schools - and particularly the so-called 'rent a name' schools - believe that they are paying for the education that the mother school provides, including things like IGCSE. If these schools can't provide it, they are not going to be happy - the parents who can will send their kids off to the UK/US boarding schools earlier, and those who can't will either just perservere or remove the kids to the state system (after all, if the kids are using the same textbooks, being taught the same lessons, and sitting the same exams, where's the sense - other than pride - in paying £30,000 per year for it if you can get it for nothing?)
- Sun Sep 05, 2021 8:40 pm
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: getting hired at a British school
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11476
Re: getting hired at a British school
It's going to depend on (a) the school, and (b) which part of it you're in (primary or secondary).
If it's secondary, and by the looks of your post it is, then it's not so much of a problem if the school does IBDP. Your experience in IBDP is directly transferable to IGCSE - and if the school's any good they will have looked at the IGCSE content and exams and worked out how they link from IGCSE to DP. I don't agree with @finedude - ultimately, the school is interested in your IBDP ability, and if you can teach that then it's a fair assumption that you can teach IGCSE and KS3 too. If the school does A Level, then it is more difficult but not impossible.
If it's primary, then you will have a lot more difficulty with this. I've seen American teachers hired into English curriculum schools and really struggled with it, particularly on the assessment side and also if the school is particularly rigid with the curriculum. Equally, English trained teachers find the less structured American curriculum difficult to deal with and understand.
If it's secondary, and by the looks of your post it is, then it's not so much of a problem if the school does IBDP. Your experience in IBDP is directly transferable to IGCSE - and if the school's any good they will have looked at the IGCSE content and exams and worked out how they link from IGCSE to DP. I don't agree with @finedude - ultimately, the school is interested in your IBDP ability, and if you can teach that then it's a fair assumption that you can teach IGCSE and KS3 too. If the school does A Level, then it is more difficult but not impossible.
If it's primary, then you will have a lot more difficulty with this. I've seen American teachers hired into English curriculum schools and really struggled with it, particularly on the assessment side and also if the school is particularly rigid with the curriculum. Equally, English trained teachers find the less structured American curriculum difficult to deal with and understand.
- Mon Aug 30, 2021 12:53 am
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: Senior teacher with a PhD and 2 kids - could I save 50K annually?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 37027
Re: Senior teacher with a PhD and 2 kids - could I save 50K annually?
One other thing to bear in mind is your age. Certainly in China, and also possibly the ME too, a lot of countries won't let you stay beyond 60 (or at least not without a lot of hassle.) If you're looking at covering your kids through university, then that is something to bear in mind.
- Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:41 am
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: Updating of CV Information
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13943
Re: Updating of CV Information
Nationality can both be a positive and a negative. It can be useful as it shows that you won't have a problem getting a visa to work in the country - some have weird restrictions, like China's one on requiring language teachers to have a passport from a country which speaks that language, causing problems occasionally for South Africans teaching English. On the other hand, it can allow latent prejudice to appear.
- Tue Aug 24, 2021 7:18 pm
- Forum: Forum 1. From Questions About ISS & Search to Anything and Everything About International Teaching
- Topic: Updating of CV Information
- Replies: 9
- Views: 13943
Re: Updating of CV Information
I think marital status could be included, because of the visa impact and whether or not they want to foot the bill for a dependant - same thing as for kids, schools need to know if you're going to cost them in terms of a place so want to take that into account.
FWIW, Search aren't now asking for photos on their redesigned website, but still recommend it for the CV anyway.
FWIW, Search aren't now asking for photos on their redesigned website, but still recommend it for the CV anyway.