I have a good friend who had been working here since September of 2008. He was referred here by a recruiter who signed him to a 2 year contract and sent him to this school. This University obviously has management problems as when students enter the college campus they can raise their heads and see "Guangzhou Pyrotechnic Normal University" at the official entrance. Apparently this place is the father and mother of where people learned to make fireworks or something. This school also has an Austrailian teacher who is supposedly not liked by the teachers and students as he was invited to sit with Chinese staff but he remarked that he couldn't "sit with dogs", he also likes to yell and scream at students according to what the students have said.

Back to my friend, he was supposedly given a "business" visa by the school which allowed him to stay in China for an extended period of time. However come June over a month ago my friend decides to go back to the United States and visit his family so he asks the foreign affairs office to buy him an airplane ticket. Well lo and behold!! The head of the foreign affairs department calls him in and apologizes to him as they had apparently made a "mistake"! What was the mistake?? Well apparently the visa which was given to him only allowed him to stay in China for no more than 30 days!! He had to leave and go to a place like Hong Kong once every 30 days in order to legally stay in China! REMEMBER this is a University, and a public one at that.

Now my friend here has his passport taken away by a Major at the Gong An office. This policewoman along with the people at the school assure him that they are working on this case as it's a "special" case which has NEVER happened before. Except it's been over a month and they still haven't gotten anything done. My friend is looking at a possible FINE and maybe getting kicked out of the country because apparently someone up high at the school decided to be all shy and denying about what his visa really was about. The best case scenario for my friend now is that he will have to pay the fine and be out of luck with going back to the United States for the summer.

You can add GuangZhou Polytechnic Normal University to the list of bad schools. Universities which operate like this deserves to have some heads rolled and some massive management changes take place.