I once worked at this school in Yinchuan and I posted my experience here aprx. two years ago. I see that the school still uses the same MO with its staff. From the time you first talk with John Zhong the owner and then the underlings all you get fed is lies. Shortly after I left them in 07 Yinchuan Cambridge English School changed its name to Ningxia Ruizhi Education Group but that is all that was changed within the organization.

There was no need to you to Sign two contract to make up to the 6000 yuan that they said that the school would pay you there, Dragonized. I was working there for 6000 yuan when I was there and I was given my copy right after I signed it and it was stamped with the school stamp. One reason that the school wants you to sign two contracts is to avoid paying taxes. They were reported and found out not to be paying my taxes when I was there teaching. I guess they had to pay hush money to a second person in the tax department.

I was told when I was there to do recordings for the new books/tapes that the school was working on when I was there and I too was offered "royalties". When I asked what the amount of royalties would be I never got an answer. I would never do recordings for any school there in China.

I see that Cooper is back working there at the school. I was told when I was there in Yinchuan last month that he left but he might of been working at on of the other projects that the school has going on there in Yinchuan. He is on of those special people that really believes the lies that he tells you and he can not understand why you get upset with the school when they try their tricks out on you..

As for the working hours/days there at Yinchuan Cambridge, the hours/days that you are told to work change at the whim of the head master or vice head masters such as Cooper. You might even have to stay over night and sleep in a classroom if you are sent out to one of the small towns that the school has a wee campus at if you have missed the last bus back to Yinchuan. That did happen to one of the Filipino teachers one weekend right after I left the school. This school really takes care of you!

I never had any problem with getting books from the school but most of the students where in a level too high for their English level. So it was frustrating when I would go to teach a class and the students did not know the material from the book that they were taught last term. Don`t you just love the bouncing around the city to teach your classes?

When I went to work for them, they had a month to secure me an apartment but were not able to find me anything but a flea bitten dive. So I had to find my own apartment and then they tried to get me to sign the lease for it! No way buddy as I knew that the school tried this with the previous foreign teacher.

The school last year was warned by the FE Dept. to improve on the treatment towards their foreign teachers as some of the Filipino teachers went to the FE Dept with some complaints. So if you run into this problem again go to the FE Dept.

Sadly this is common story about too many schools and its foreign teacher. Report these schools to web sites like this on, Dave's ESL etc. Warn as many people as you can about these schools.