My name is Hanna Mantle and I have been the Director of Studies for Amarapura Partners in Mandalay, Myanmar since the beginning of October 2015.

A few points for clarification regarding this thread that spans several years now and several old issues:

* We currently have 5 foreign teachers but are hiring three more for a placement starting in the next few weeks which will then give us a total of 8 foreign teachers.

* We now have 2 training centres in Mandalay and have just opened a new centre in Nay Pyi Taw for corporate, business and management courses which are being managed by one of our foreign teachers.

* We have a long standing partnership with the Thu Rein Nan Private school in Mandalay where not only some of our foreign teachers work, but also some of our local teachers as well.

* We've successfully completed multiple corporate and business training courses including training the airport staff of Mandalay International airport and have contracts with Ooredoo and Telenor starting soon.

*** For more CURRENT information regarding this company, please direct your attention to the company website: www.amarapurapartners.com which details our most recent activities, staff members and has a link to our Facebook page.

Many thanks, Hanna Mantle Director of Studies, Amarapura Partners.

Jesse is awesome 'b*tch'. If you are going to use a fake name, that is a pretty awesome one to use. Who is that guy!?

I don't get what they have to make amends with? Lots of people don't like their jobs and leave or are fired everyday. That's why Heisenberg left his teaching job to do what he did? Isn't it?

Teaching jobs aren't about schools' management or the amount of colleagues teachers offices have but about what the work is about Opening windows to opportunities is great but to exploitation isn't. A "coordinating teacher", "Director of Studies" or a "webtise" may make little difference, if it comes to the roles of teachers in classrooms. Although governments can truly change the course in this respect, it does come down to how much they are willing to compromise on their values as well as how much the schools/educational institutions want to make vs how much they really want to teach. Honestly, I do not see this local government or its vision of education opening those windows at all; however, it's nice to see that some people like the ones who are posting here are knocking. Yet, the knocks seem to be so loud and desperate which with all due respect suggests you guys are in white meat advertising. :WINK)

Hi,

I am Jo, the coordinating teacher of Amarapura Partners. I and our Director of Studies, Mr. Aaron Paul are now in charge of hiring teachers for the company. The management has been changed since April this year. We don't have website yet, but we do have Facebook page and company Facebook account. Please look up Amarapura Partners on Facebook for the Page. Our company account is Swe Sayar. You can see there activities we have had. We are operating a language center catering to students of various age groups and English skills. We also do TKT training for local English teachers and training Immigration Officials(You can see pictures on our Facebook account). We now have 14 foreign teachers and 2 more coming this month. As the company is expanding, we have more projects coming here in Mandalay and other regions so we do need more teachers.

I see that a company called Amarapura Partners co ltd are advertising for 10 teachers within the Mandalay area of Myanmar (Burma) with applications being sent to a man who's name is Richard Truitt.
Having searched the internet for further details of the company I can find no trace of them apart from duplicate advertisements on upwards of 15 "teaching vacancy" sites.
So what I would like to ask is:- Does anybody have any information of or experience with either the above mentioned company or person?

Thanks in advance.