Worked at Aston LYG a couple times, 2009/2010, then 2011/2012 - there were ups and downs for sure, but I was able to see significant improvements over time, including the city itself, which when I first arrived was without any bar with draft beer or decent pizza restaurant - LYG has both now in spades and in my simple eyes it makes life a lot easier. The apartments have also improved from standard run of the mill chinese style apartments to some pretty nice new places built within the last couple of years. As far as the comments about management, I just don't see it - don't know who the OP is but I would imagine they were pretty disgruntled for whatever reason and just wanted to badmouth the school. I have heard stories from before I was there about slobbish teachers bragging about getting prostitutes and one that bit a student Mike Tyson style during a class, so its not just us laowais that have complaints lol!