Archive for the ‘Teaching English in the Middle East’ Category
Poor TEFL teachers (it’s official!)
Sunday, June 8th, 2008Yup, according to the EL Gazette (which everyone now has the opportunity to sign up to read for free here), some TEFL teaching jobs in the UK are now under the official British poverty line. There is some hope, though- if from the other side of the world- as teachers for Kaplan in New Zealand got a pay rise after striking for just one day.
Other news of interest from this month’s edition:
- The wives of footballers to be forced to take an English test in the UK (lucky Posh and Becks went to the US then)
- Some schools in Saudi pay less than Italy
- Atlantic S.E.A.L in Cork aims to be the first school to specialize in students over 50
rumours of big name transfers in the EFL league
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007So, Thierry Henry finally going to Barca, eh? And in the season when everyone had got so bored of the rumours that they had almost stopped talking about it. So maybe British Council Jeddah really are going to swoop for me, pay the escape clause in my contract and make me a 4 year 8-million dollar offer.
I guess there’d have to be whatever the English teaching equivalent of the medical exam is (get me to teach a lesson from inside a CAT scan machine?) before the signing on live television, and obviously I’d want to know who else they are planning on signing (I hear rumours that Pilgrims might try and cash in on Mario Rinvolucri before he can leave on a Bosman transfer next year and that Jeremy Harmer is looking for a player manager post).
Or maybe I will just continue being paid the same as every other teacher, however good or bad they may be, and just take my extra reward as the number of comments I get on my blog… It’s not like English teaching is the only profession in the world where you get no reward for extra work, and it might not even be the only one where people get paid more just for having an MA. More ranting on the world of the EFL MA coming up…
Come to think of it, I’m pretty much the same kind of teacher as I am football player. Anyone else?