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Here's-Your-Answer - 2012-02-20
In response to Re: Dalian Ealing International College (Magister)

Firstly, Ealing's little weasels are very good at avoiding all of the issues here. So let's go through the requisitory again.

(a) Ealiing is affiliated with the British Government, its agencies, etc., etc.

It is not. It has never been and it will never be.

(b) Ealing is under the control of the Department of Education of the Queensland Government.

It is not. Ealing participates in a seriously money-grubbing operation called GAC which somehow, somehow, allows matriculated students to obtain an Australian High School diploma and then to enter university.

There must be 100,000 of these kind of schemes in China and Queensland is notorious for being the worst (they are 90% Australian and 10% Canadian). For anyone who has ever worked in one of these GAC programs, they will how not serious and money grubbing it is.

(c) Ealing claims that Dalian is the hardest place in China to obtain a work permit authorization for a foreign teacher.

It is not. Absolutely not. Considering that I have worked in, and in Dalian as I write, I can tell you that Dalian is like any other Chinese city -- with good relations, friends, good name, Dalian is a relatively EASY city in which to obtain a work permit.

That is an Ealing smokescreen -- obviously they do not have good relations with the PSB, with the FEB, etc., etc.

And yes, one cannot change visa status in Liaoning Province but one can be sen to Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand, Indonesia, even Mongolia, provided the paperwork is properly done.

(d) Ealing claims that its working conditions are above normal for the city.

Sorry, guys but they are not. They are below par. Your teachers must give 25 classes per week; your teachers must give 5 office hours per week; your teachers must spend another 2 - 3 hours per day travelling around outside from one-school-to-the-other. That is a minimum of 45 - 50 hours per week. For RMB 6,000 per month before taxes, that ain't a lot of money and that doesn't take into account taxes.

(e) Ealing's Partner Schools in England.

Another smokescreen. What "partner schools"? That is the oldest trick in the Chinese book.


(f) Ealing pays on time.


Well, folks, just ask anyone in Dalian. They will tell you that that isn't true. When the clients pay late, and they do, Ealing pays late. Ealing claims that it has missed one pay...my sources tell me that it happens far more often that!

Frankly, they are protesting so loudly that the quotation from Shakespeare comes to mind.

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