Saturday, 12 November 2016, 9:18 pm

This post is very serious and will be updated weekly.
I need to let you all know about KYP College in Kuantan, Malaysia. Please do your future employer checks before accepting an underpaid position as a lecturer.

I trusted this Malaysian college only to find my trust was misdirected. It cost me a fortune to go to Malaysia and I lost all of the money I paid out.

For reasons which totally elude me, the college is managed by an accountant and he clearly does not have management or people skills, the local staff and the new lecturers from other countries find he constantly makes misguided decisions, has a very bad threatening temper and he is exceptionally aggressive, on a daily basis he changes the required work aims which results in constant misery and confusion.. He ordered the college to recruit 11 foreign subject lecturers and is insisting on recruiting another eight. So far, two have quit and five are looking desperately to get away.

Promises are made that if you find the college not suitable within the first three months, the college will pay three months leaving pay to you but the college manager does not honor this promise.

So far, over half of those foreign lecturers have had work visa applications refused, rather than pay them leaving money, the manager has decided to make them stay and accept that the college will get a none lecturer visa for them but they still must lecture. This is of course illegal. I am told that one of the foreign staff is taking legal recourse against the college, this sounds right but will he/she get a fair result?

Please, please think very carefully if your ever offered a job by this manager and college, ask for a copy of the contract while you are still in your home country but when you read it be very aware that the college is actually changing the contract by which they recruited foreign lecturers, despite those already employed not wanting further contract changes which will downgrade them from lecturers to some other job title.

If you are thinking of accepting a job in this low range college, first do extensive research into the history of this low performing college, you really must research on the college manager, try to contact existing staff both Malaysian and foreign and get the truth about how the college is managed and the daily abuse of even the most basic of employment rights, check the monthly pay as it is ridiculous in comparison to what lecturers receive in genuine colleges in Malaysia. Use google to check norhishamuddin yaacob, check http://www.kyp.my/index.php/blog/284-ceo-trainee-kyp-little-ambassador and see how he used his position to promote his niece, a young child, you can read it and start to understand why problems exist in the college. On the website he avoids mentioning the child is his relative and all staff were forced to fawn over this child despite the fact there was nothing exceptional about her. To not fawn over her and not play along meant that the manager would punish you. There is much to tell about the manager and the college.

I am keeping in daily contact with two of the foreign lecturers in the college, they feel trapped and they are.

There are so many things wrong and I will post weekly to let everybody know what is going on.