Email sent to foreign teachers of Huizhou University by FAO. Just another violation of teacher contracts...

Dear all,

Having been seriously instructed by the Director of Finance Department recently, it has learned that the policies regarding the application for flight allowance would be changed. New policies would commence from the year 2014.

Condition 1:

In accordance with the new policies, the first condition is that from 2014 on, providing the Finance Department with an order form retrieved from the Internet that illustrates flight information, such as name, departure time and passport NO., is no longer valid in terms of applying for untaxed flight allowance.

To apply for untaxed flight allowance, applicants must provide two documents. The first one is an official invoice of flight tickets, and the second one is boarding pass. The invoice date and boarding date must be within your contract year. Attached are samples of these two documents for your reference.

For those who have already gone home in late 2013 and for those who plan to travel in 2014, should you expect to receive untaxed flight allowance in July 2014 and January 2015, please provide documents as mentioned above, as they will be the only recognized and acceptable files for the application.

The reimbursement would be made based on the actual amount of the ticket and would not exceed 8000RMB. For instance, if a teacher submits an invoice and a boarding pass with the amount as 7500RMB, the teacher would only receive 7500RMB as flight ticket reimbursement. If the amount of invoice is more than 8000RMB, the maximum reimbursement would be 8000RMB.

Condition 2:

Should you fail to provide the mentioned documents on time, or have not bought flight tickets within your contract year, the allowance would be directly credited to your bank accounts, and in this case this amount of money would be taxable with the last month salary of contract year.

Thank you and wish you a happy 2014.

Best regards,

Daisy

I think I will reject the job offer from Huizhou University.

The problem is that most teachers don't take their English Corner responsibility seriously (although it is in their contract). As the university gets bigger so does the ego's of the new young foreign teachers. Having a fancy degree is not a substitute for life experience. Older teachers deserve respect. The university shouldn't care so much about entertaining young punks who don't even plan to stay very long. Some of us have been here for a long time and plan to stay for a long time too.

I get what you mean, although to be honest I don't take my English corners that seriously either (more in an effort to create a relaxed environment though, I still attend every time). I agree that some of the young guys are just cocky and need knocking back down to earth, even some of the older guys can seem like bitter, know-it-all, grumpy old gits. I have mentioned that hate the guys that wish to treat a teaching job like a one year long holiday.

Sounds like Huizhou University promotes misogynistic, sexist behavior and can be labeled a brothel of sorts where the best grades are given to the students most willing to spread her legs. Sad.

Moreover sex is most certainly not only between a male and a female.

Hello
I don't feel qualified to answer this. Have a good week.

Let's make one thing clear, a loving relationship between an adult man and woman, often occurs when sometimes it would be better if it didn't happen- there is nothing morally wrong with it;

But it is deemed proffesional misconduct if between a doctor and one of his patients, a preacher and one of his flock, a teacher and one of his students... etc! Morally wrong in those cases, I'd have to say so.

Make no mistake, expats teaching in China who form loving relationships with students can expect trouble from their employers. Mantaining such a relationship without others knowing is extremely tough to do. Sonner or later it will become common knowledge. I think it's unwise for FTs to sleep with students. Wny don't they choose to sleep with Chinese women who are not students? Nothing wrong with doing that from a moral or a proffesional point of view!

A "discreet" sex would be masturbation in the loneliness of the North Pole.

Discrete sex, on the contrary, is something else. All sex should be discrete, unless in a voyeuristic/exhibitionist club.

And, of course, sex with one's own student is NEVER acceptable. There are millions of people in every Chinese city. One should even refrain from sex from other students at the same school whom one does not teach, but one's own students -- ABSOLUTELY NEVER.

Getting drunk in front of the students to the extent that you actually walk on all fours like an animal is not a crime but is definitely not what a university teacher should be doing as a purported rôle model. Three of the teachers there do that regularly and another one occcasionally, as has been witnessed by many of us there.

Having sex WITH ONE'S OWN STUDENTS AND LIKELY BLACKMAILING THEM TO HAVE SEX WITH YOU IN ORDER TO GIVE THEM A BETTER GRADE is a crime in all jurisdictions. And that was what people said was happenning with four male teachers there (ex-students of two of those are no longer their students, just their concubines, whom each of them introduces to others as their "girlfriend", but they were their own students at the time the liaison was initiated; the other two teachers -- according to the story running around town -- are still in such arrangements with their students and that influences the students' grades).

So, yes, at least a part of it IS INDEED a criminal activity.