Overseas schools with volunteer internship programs
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Barbara Devine
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Overseas schools with volunteer internship programs
Any information regarding schools with active, quality volunteer internship programs would be appreciated.
Interns
Many schools both the very good and the very bad have intern program. Though most of them are actually paid internships. At the good schools interns either do non classroom clerical work or specialized tasks like marketing, fund raising or web/IT things. Classroom interns are basically teacher aids. At the bad schools interns work as teachers, and the school just couldnt get anyone qualified or they pay really low.
If your looking for unpaid volunteer positions your best bet is to go though a university study abroad or overseas office. The problem with volunteer (unpaid_ interns is that it still costs the school to bring them over, and many of the places have to guarantee you can support yourself. Lastly, volunteers tend to ahve stability issues. Teachers do what they do because they love it, but they dont do it for free, and ive seen a number of interns that left early. In italy a number of paid interns just grossly underestimated the costs of living in Rome, and the workload while normal was still a job. It didnt leave a lot of time (or money) to actually see or do anything. A number of them left over the mid term break/winter holiday.
If your looking for unpaid volunteer positions your best bet is to go though a university study abroad or overseas office. The problem with volunteer (unpaid_ interns is that it still costs the school to bring them over, and many of the places have to guarantee you can support yourself. Lastly, volunteers tend to ahve stability issues. Teachers do what they do because they love it, but they dont do it for free, and ive seen a number of interns that left early. In italy a number of paid interns just grossly underestimated the costs of living in Rome, and the workload while normal was still a job. It didnt leave a lot of time (or money) to actually see or do anything. A number of them left over the mid term break/winter holiday.