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[quote=APAULT,240157]Lynn. All jobs should come with accommodation, usually a one or two bedroom apartment (tho I am currently in a large bedsitter) plus small kitchen and bathroom. many pay your utilities but not all. You normally receive from 7000 to 8000 rmb for return airfares for a 10 month contract (make sure you clarify whether you must have ticket receipts as you don't always want to travel directly to and from home). Many offer 1000 or 2000 personal travel allowance on a full year. Some places reduce your pay in the spring holiday. In the government system the pay is based on academic qualifications, typically 4000 for a BA, 5000 for an MA and 5500 for a doctorate. These will be higher in the more expensive cities (Gunagzhou 6000 to 8000). Many make no allowance for experience or teaching qualifications. I especially wanted to teach in a certain city and was offered a job in a uni there. But the pay was much less than I was getting 2 years earlier in a lower cost province. I had assumed they would offer me a top of the range salary like I was paid in my first uni. They upped the pay marginally but it was still short of what I earnt before and we have had 3% pa inflation since then. The first uni had graded me at the doctorate level but the new one wouldn't. It seems that the privately run schools and colleges have more flexibility in this. So, I voted with my feet and went elsewhere... to another privately run college. So my suggestion is be prepared to negotiate. It is a new expereince for many employers to encounter this, but in an environment where there is a shortage of teachers, why not! Private language centres usually want more hours per week, I started in one than wanted 25 'hours'..(an hour is usually 45 minutes) and may contract you into schools and then expect you to recruit students into the after hours classes in the language centre. Most problems that teachers encounter here are with such institutions... though if you are inetersted in these look for the large ones based outside China. To our Chinese teachers, you should try doing the same... the.eer is a shortage of teachers in some areas, and you are now in a mrket economy. Employers must learn they cannot have everything all their own way!!! [/quote]
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