Wondering about these men that feel they need XL Condoms? :oops: :oops: :shock:

I do not think that doing a few maths courses at UG level will help much, schools will be looking for a maths qualification.

The MA will open many doors later in your career, but would take longer to do.

In the good schools they are.

The other thing to check when you get an offer is the housing allowance, some of the lower tier schools will not pay the whole sommer and expect you to move out over the summer.

So good it posted twice

[quote="grumpy"]Uhm, Who is KAK???[/quote]

There was a poster called KAK on this thread who was asking for info about many different schools and then claimimg to have friends in the school who knew better than me about schools in HCMC.

The last post from KAK claimed that he? had been working abroard doing humanitarian work for 20 years and that they had a job with DoDEA.

Now all posts by KAK have disapeared

[quote="grumpy"]Uhm, Who is KAK???[/quote]

There was a poster called KAK on this thread who was asking for info about many different schools and then claimimg to have friends in the school who knew better than me about schools in HCMC.

The last post from KAK claimed that he? had been working abroard doing humanitarian work for 20 years and that they had a job with DoDEA.

Now all posts by KAK have disapeared

First I will deal with the 2 AIS question. I know that there are 2 AIS schools in HCMC. The American one is a total joke, almost as bad as RISS.

I was talking about the Australian one in my earlier posts. They have been paying some staff in Dong for the last year, next year all staff will be paid in Dong. The staff I knew well were in Secondary and were very unhappy there.

The school that pays the highest salary, in my experience, is BIS which has also moved to paying 100% in Dong. RISS often say they will pay similar wages to BIS, but will find ways to break promises.

I spent many years in HCMC<, I speak from experience mixed with hearsay from the various other teachers who I know and trust from other schools in the city.

I recall a conversation I had with a new teacher at the Canadian school, after listening to haw fantastic the place was for over an hour, she told me that if she got the promotion she would be earning over $2000 a month neat year!!!

I have just checked KAK's posting history.

Please save us from Americans who have never left the US, they ask for advice about schools all over the world then claim to have friends at the same schools who know more.

Then to cap it all they now claim that they have a job at DoDEA all along form early in the season.

I know that I come across as negative about schools in HCMC, that is because I have worked at 2 of them and was badly messed about by a third one.

I am sorry you find my truth about HCMC to be negative. It is only out of date by one year as that is when I left HCMC for a much better job in Africa.

I would advise anybody who cannot decide between what I have said and what KAK has said to refer to the search website for info about AIS where they give a very low wage scale and say that they only pay in Dong.

I can accept the possinility that the few teachers I have talked to from AIS were the only ones who were not happy there.

But the facts remain:-

AIS wages are lower than most in HCMC

They pay in DONG

Banks will not change Dong to Dollars, you have to go to money changers for that.

AIS has one of the lowest packages in HCMC, many staff are earning less than 3000 USD per month.

Warning point for me is that the pay is 100% in VND.

I am sorry I miunderstood.

AQlll I can suggest is that you look at the student breakdown on the Search profile for the school. It will tell you the nationality breakdown of the students and then ask about how many families there are at interview.

iF YOUR MONEY IS PAID INTO THE BANK IN DOLLARS YOU CAN SEND IT OUT EASILY. iF THE SCHOOL PAYS IN dONG THEN YOU HAVE TO TAKE IT OUT IN dONG, GO TO A MONEY CHANGER AND THEN DEPOSIT IT INTO A DOLLAR ACCOUNT BEFORE YOU CAN WIRE IT OUT.

SORRY BOUT THE CAPS

Mant schools in Thailand also like to have a few white faces for when the photograpger wants some shot for the brochure.

Most international recruiters are two faced shits. Get used to it.

I have just wasted 3 weeks waiting for a contract to arrive and when I contacted the school they said that they were almost sure that they still needed me. This was after they had sent me an offer letter.

They will give you a good feeling when they are face 2 face and then fork about for weeks.

There is no breakdown in that way but there is a space where there school can say if they prefer single teachers or couples with children.