Post by stefista on Sept 13, 2006 10:12:26 GMT 7
My question is about Shane School in Shanghai, but before I begin, I just want to say that googling "shane shanghai site:chinateacher.probards17.com" yields only parts of GTO's massive thread, so if the info is down the list somewhere, I apologize.
So here's a story....I sent a resume off on AsiaXpat; the ad was from 'ChinaESL' and offered a full time teaching post in Shanghai. Their HR manager got back to me way to quickly and she tells me I'll be contacted by the Director at the school...which is a Shane School franchise.
Now I am a Boland graduate and I had a read on Shane in Suzhou way before the date on poor GTO's posting. If the ad had stated it was Shane School, I wouldn't have touched it. Now I know it's a franchise and I'm sure the folks at the head office in the UK are quite good people and that the people who run the other franchises may wlel have class establishments, but the Suzhou operation just has a black, black reputation in my mind.
So back to the story...the Academic Manager at what has now become Shane School Jinhui gets back to me (does anyone know where Jinhhui is? Is it a district of Shanghai? Is it even a place? I mean, I know my way around Shanghai pretty well, even though I wouldn't claim to know all the districts). Her office address, at least, is located in Shanghai; like I had got from the ad. I checked ChinaESL's website to see if it was a second name for the school or something, but ChinaESL is some kind of esl related organization based in Beijing with very little information on their site. I wouldn't be surprised if it essentially a teacher pipeline, but who knows.
So anyway, here's my question...anyone know anything about this particular Shane School?
So here's a story....I sent a resume off on AsiaXpat; the ad was from 'ChinaESL' and offered a full time teaching post in Shanghai. Their HR manager got back to me way to quickly and she tells me I'll be contacted by the Director at the school...which is a Shane School franchise.
Now I am a Boland graduate and I had a read on Shane in Suzhou way before the date on poor GTO's posting. If the ad had stated it was Shane School, I wouldn't have touched it. Now I know it's a franchise and I'm sure the folks at the head office in the UK are quite good people and that the people who run the other franchises may wlel have class establishments, but the Suzhou operation just has a black, black reputation in my mind.
So back to the story...the Academic Manager at what has now become Shane School Jinhui gets back to me (does anyone know where Jinhhui is? Is it a district of Shanghai? Is it even a place? I mean, I know my way around Shanghai pretty well, even though I wouldn't claim to know all the districts). Her office address, at least, is located in Shanghai; like I had got from the ad. I checked ChinaESL's website to see if it was a second name for the school or something, but ChinaESL is some kind of esl related organization based in Beijing with very little information on their site. I wouldn't be surprised if it essentially a teacher pipeline, but who knows.
So anyway, here's my question...anyone know anything about this particular Shane School?
