In response to (Message Deleted by Poster) (John Nanchang China)

Thanks for the info re VSO in EFL in China.
As a matter of fact,I was rejected by them in the early 90's.But that didn't stop me from coming to China to teach English,and I've been doing so here ever since.
At that time I happened to meet two volunteers.They told me that VSO only accepts 1 in 7 applicants, contrary to the impression their ads give readers,and that they were disgusted with the charity because they hadn't gone into detail about the cheating,both by students and by teachers that is rife here,so they felt misled by deliberate non-information.
Both they and I thought that the VSO description of volunteers' salaries as 'allowances' was both unwarranted and haughty.
Semmingly the VSO field officers were not good at dealing with teachers' problems in the field,leaving many of their colleagues feeling cheated and compromised because the organization did not want to lose teaching placement opportunities.
Prince Philip being their patron wasn't clever either.He had earlier visited China and made a racist joke re the shape of foreign teachers' eyes changing if they stayed too long there!Needless to say,that did not go down well with the locals!
But VSO does do good things abroad,let's not forget that!
Even so,I'd rather be independent of that kind of organisation - having one boss is better than having two,and I reckon Chinese bosses are by and large easier to deal with than foreign ones when problems arise.