There is a worse place in UAE to work for, I taught Emirati candidates "altawteen program" for the Institute of Enterprise development at Abu Dhabi University, just go and visit this place, it is not too bad, start teaching and it is shocking "management are british but they have no quality or results, God knows from where they brough those SSS???? you will be shocked as the following:

1. the program's objectives to develop the skills of the Emirati candidates but:

1.1. The English skills of the majority of the candidates are really terrible. Also, the level of the English of these courses which they have been taught much higher than their English level, which made it very difficult for the teachers to explain this material to them, again, this happened with the employability and vocational programs "the students do these courses after they completed their English courses, these are from "Btec edexcel", they are designed for native English speakers and not for students who speak English as a Second Language", and it is for british not for Emirati, even the material it has to do with the british system for working, nothing to do with the Emirati.

1.2. The students pass from one level to another without asessment "and if there are exams for the English course, they passed eventhough the teachers failed them, no one knows how this happened".

1.3. I had three students passed eventhough two of them never ever submit any assignments and the third doesn't know English at all "again I couldn't understand how this happened".

When the teachers at the meetings suggested on the management to change the English courses and vocational courses to be taylored to the level of the English of students, their background and their abilities, nothing has happened and the teachers and the students till now have been suffering from these complications. I beleive it is the time now to take an action and stop this program from continuing as it is a waste of time, effort and money, as the students get into this program and leave it without even a little bit improvement, I don't know how will they be working after completing these courses.

I look forward to receiving a positive response from you and taking an action regarding this in the near future.

Kind Regards

Linda Johns