Hahaha
- 2016-05-18
Sounds really bad news for 50% of the training mills out here who will run ou of business if they can't put a White face near their front door.
Non native speakers of English will just relocate to another country.
John O'Shei
- 2016-05-18
It in theory should be true, but the economy is buggered; plus there will always be twats on tourist visas because the Chinese are pretty crap at enforcing laws and often benefit from failing to enforce laws anyway. Also, there will be nationalist pressures to employ more local teachers due to rising unemployment. One only has to look at a recent Global Times article to see that, they talk about parents preferring Chinese only English schools due to all these dodgy foreigners and also a rise in bilingual Taiwanese teachers replacing foreigners.
paul fox
- 2016-05-16
It's early days so no-one knows what the longer-term effects will be.......yet.
However, early indications appear to show that these new 'rules' are somewhat discretionary, and it's up to each individual provincial government to decide whether or not they are enforced within their jurisdiction.
So don't go out and buy the 'bubbly' just yet. This is China!
If enough educational establishments in any given province complain that they cannot get enough FT's..................
As I said - This is CHINA !
It also seems that any FT who is currently employed can simply re-sign with their employer and stay where they are. That is of course, unless they are from a country that is no longer on the NES list.
I therefore suggest that any 'Sith Iffrikkun' FT's should be prepared to go and 'pork' their 'core' somewhere else.
Like most instances where a change in the law takes place, it's often done with the best of intentions. As to whether it is practical or workable, remains to be seen.
The FT market in China is in turmoil. New visa regulations, if strictly enforced, will disqualify more than 50% of the teachers at large chain schools, and a smaller but significant percentage of FTs at universities and public schools will also be dismissed. How the domestic education market will respond is anyone's guess, given China's provincial discretion, the enormous illegal employment market, the 'guangxi' of employers, and the slow learning curve of FAO departments.
What is certain is this: if you are a citizen and current resident of one of the approved English native-language countries and you have a 4 year college degree from that country and you have two years or more working experience, the opportunities to teach in China have never been better or more numerous.
But beware: agencies will be hungrier and more ruthless than ever. Ignore them. Use your google and google translate skills and contact schools directly. Your favorable response rate will likely be enormous.
