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| Z visa refused as I have no PGCE! What? In CHINA?!* | ||
| Hi all - I can′t believe it either and I thought it was all just bull, but yesterday iw as informed by the PSB that they would NOT be able to renew my z visa as I could no longer claim to be a foreign expert. Like most here on the mainland (unlike those in Macau and HK) I have no quals and no experience (save for what I have accumulated here in China). They said I would need AT LEAST (!) a PGCE before being able to work at the government school that I have been at for some 2 and a half years now. But, of course, a PGCE is just that - a course for post graduates; I′m not even an official school leaver! I have been told however I will be able to work at a private training centre (great, I DON′T think!) Guess being in the ′world′s fastest growing economy′ is not all good as now standards ARE being raised. I met a few South Africans in Shenzhen a few weeks ago whilst on holiday who showed me their pay slips from a private training centre there: some 20,000 Yuan A MONTH! I could not believe it! I have been on 3,500! They both had BA (Hons), MA, PGCEs and TESOL certs. Anyone else know anything aqbout the new visa regulations? Kelvin Brweer [2004-04-27, 06:19:00][ID: 656-3344] I only know what I have read on the PRC′s government′s website: http://www.ebeijing.gov.cn/Jobs/default.htm But, yes, you are right. You do indeed need teacher qualifications now to work within the state sector. At the moment it is only in Beijing, but,a s it states quite clearly on that website, it WILL be spread across the whole of the mainland. I suppose they want to raise standards what with the forthcoming events in Beijing and, also, as the last poster noted, China is ′the fastest growing economy in the world′. I guess they want to keep it that way. Having uneducated, unqualified, illiterate ex-con failed gardeners and the like is not the best way to achieve this, is it? Beijing Bo Ho [2004-04-27, 12:31:00][ID: 656-3349] Actually these have been the national regs for the past 10 years but they are just now getting around to enforcing them. MW [2004-07-29, 11:23:00][ID: 656-4500] Kelvin: Is that a whopper of a fish story or what? Pay slips in China - never heard of such a thing in ten years here. Since you saw them, what was the name of the school? MW [2004-07-29, 11:25:00][ID: 656-4501] |