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Post by loftus on Aug 11, 2004 23:46:57 GMT 7
I have an oppurtunity to receive an MBA in the next 10 months. I am curious as to what you guys thing. Will an MBA and a CELTA certificate do me well. Or is it better to get the full CELTA degree? I am thinking the mBA would be better because it will allow me to branch out in the future.
Thoughts?
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Post by loftus on Aug 14, 2004 0:36:13 GMT 7
Off to the spoon for some answers.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Aug 14, 2004 1:24:00 GMT 7
Just like that, eh? Well, they're certainly a helpful and well-informed bunch over there. Actually, I've tried to respond to this thread several times, and each time I did after about 20 minutes of typing Netscape would crash on me, wiping everything out. Hopefully a disk defrag did the trick. The answer to this really depends on your own goals and ambitions. If you see yourself as a long-term (5+ years?) ESL teacher, the CELTA is a great investment. If this work is a short-term thing then it's overkill...get a cheap cert or go with none at all. A DELTA is even more so...it's a full college degree and really is only worth taking on if you think it will make your life better. It's a great boost to a possible career but too much for anything less. An MBA can offer a lot of versatility for the future. However, be advised that the source of an MBA can make a lot of difference in its value. Also, an MBA is really only as valuable as the experience you can combine with it. These days an MBA without experience is about as valuable, and about as rare, as a bowling trophy. Even Shanghai and Beijing are simply acrawl with young expats with MBAs. I have an MBA from a semi-respectable university, some business experience, and no teaching cert...just a bit of experience teaching college Physics, Math, and Electronics in the States. It's been a good combo for me here. It's moved me up in consideration for school management jobs. It's let me get some lucrative part-time in-house corporate English class gigs. It's allowed me to get work teaching university Business courses...the experience of this particular program really sucked but the money was excellent. Business English and Industry-Specific English seems to be the next wave in English education here, and I am well-poised to catch it. Some interesting offers are coming in. I'm also getting a few tire-kickings from non-teaching business jobs....if I were really fluent in Chinese I'd be getting a lot more. I've actually considered a CELTA sometimes simply because of the drop-dead-wonderful jobs I've seen requiring it. But for real versatility an MBA and some heavy Chinese classes might be better. It's all in what you want to do. Hey, no crashes this time.  |
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Post by loftus on Aug 14, 2004 2:12:39 GMT 7
Well I was thinking of the Celta with the MBS, plus some online Chinese classes from Beijing Cultural University. They offer a BA in Chinese Language that is relativly cheap.
I tjink we ar ethinking along the same lines though
Thanx
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