I would like to add my view of Huizhou University as I have only read disparaging remarks from one individual who had an axe to grind.

I am a teacher at Huizhou University. I have lived and worked in China for over 5 years. I would like to state that huizhou University is one of the best places I have worked. In the first place, I live at the University hotel while they are working on the teacher aparments and service at the hotel is excellent. the hotel is a gorgeous building; the lobby is beautiful and spacious, on par with a four star hotel in the states. When the main light in my room went out, I informed the desk in the evening and the repair man was at my door at 830 am the next morning. When the wall switch came out because of use, I informed the front desk and it was replaced in a couple of hours; I could not expect faster service.

When I got here, the FAO secretary called me on Saturday night to ask if I would be at the hotel on Sunday morning for internet installation; of course I will. On Sunday morning at 10;00 am, the internet company came to install, and the FAO secretary was there to do translations if needed; truly she went above and beyond the call of duty because she worked on the weekend to get the internet installed because we foreigners are so dependent on it.

Regarding classes: they gave me a nice size of about 125 students. With one group, I had about 50 students and the school told me to break the group in half so I had 25 students in each of two classes, which is normal size for a western classroom. I was given a book called "Business English: 100 business situations" I thought the book was excellent because it broke the dialogs into 3 parts: easy (short sentences), medium (medium sentences), difficult (long sentences). Many of the dialogs were very modern such as an employee working long hours because they do not have any marketable skills and the company works them like slaves. That was a very real labor problem in the US in large companies until we had programs such "worker retraining".

One person on this site said that teachers were lazy. Can you give me an example? In my class, I ask one student to run the computer while I walk around class listening to students when they read. many students are very quiet, so I walk around class so that I can listen to them read so they don't have to speak any louder than they normally do.

When I was absent due to illness, I rescheduled a make up class. The monitor suggested that I have the entire class at one time. I said that while that would save me time, that doesn't make for good education and that I would like to schedule the two classes of 25 students separately. They thought that was a good idea.

The school is updating their classrooms. One building is installing new desks and chairs. In another building, new computer equipment. Each class has a computer and projector, which I need for all my classes. One Friday, the maintenance locked all the computers; no problem as a student called the maintenance number listed on the counsole; he came in 5 minutes and opened the computer and we had class.

In one class, the projector was burned out; next class the following week it was fixed.

My bonus? got it all, no problem, along with a spending cards from my department!

Best school I have ever worked. School is in the beautiful setting of a mountain, so if you need some excercise, you can go climb a beautiful mountain and get a gorgeous view of the city.

One teacher has worked here for ten years and I understand why! We have great bus connections to Shenzhen. Take the 36 bus that starts at the school to the main bus station where the bus to Shenzhen leaves every 5 minutes; many times, the bus is half empty so you have lots of leg room. I hope to teach here for the remainder of my time in China.