American International School of Guangzhou/Shekou IS

beijing2003 · Post by **beijing2003** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:40 am

Does anyone have any information about these schools, and/or working in Guangzhou or Shenzen?

doublejointeddonkey · Post by **doublejointeddonkey** » Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:29 am

The high school positions require that you have your masters...which you might already know.

gengrant · Post by **gengrant** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:24 pm

In terms of Shenzhen, SIS is the school to work for. I worked for QSI and can tell you that even though QSI has more students, it is not because they are the better of the two.

Bob Dunseth, the SIS director, has been there for a number of years and because of this, has things at SIS humming along nicely. They have expanded campuses, and now have a separate HS facility (very nice). They have also just built a new outdoor sports facility as well.

I have several friends that have moved from QSI to SIS and tell me that it is a world apart.

Shekou itself is considered the "expatriate ghetto" as most expats live there and most never get out to experience China...they simply use the closeness to Hong Kong as a jump-off point to travel SE Asia. There is a great assortment of Western food in Shekou as well...

for info on Shenzhen, check out www.shenzhenbuzz.com and www.shenzhenparty.com

~gengrant