juanisaac
- 2012-06-23
Guangdong is doing a good thing to have background checks, and so is Inner Mongolia. But, here in Jiangsu, as in so many other provinces in China, it is not done. I know a few FTs here who even make both Chinese and foreigners cringe with some of their antics. So while some provinces are comming up to the times, the others are not.
San Migs
- 2012-06-23
A check of credentials, a police background check, etc., etc....
Provinces like Inner Mongolia actually already do a criminal clearance check. South Korea also requires this from what I hear, and the last time I was in the visa office in Hong Kong, lots of FT's from Guangdong were headed home because of a change in policy which required them to prove no criminal record, so they had to head home to get their clearance from the police to satisfy the new regs.
Magister
- 2012-06-23
It's a good point.
A while back when i was studying at uni, i worked various part-time catering jobs to earn a bit of extra cash. One of the jobs was effectively being a dinner lady in a fancy private secondary school. I had no different contact with the students but as it was a school in the UK i still needed a criminal/background check to scrub their pans.
Compare that to China and i could walk into any school and teach young learners no questions asked.
There must be a balance between the two somewhere
juanisaac
- 2012-06-22
For a few foreign teachers in China, this "courtesy" of not checking and believing at face value is what gets some of them their employment.
Then again, if a strict policy of checking resulted where would it end? A check of credentials, a police background check, etc., etc....