When studying at home, it is said that foreign teachers come to class, many people always feel that inexplicably high-end, classy and forced.
But the Australian wide Web recently revealed a cruel fact: Australian education experts have expressed concern about the number of unqualified foreign English teachers recruited overseas, many of whom are employed simply because they have a "white face".
According to reports, of the 400000 foreigners who teach in China, 2/3 of them are not qualified, and some of them have problems with visas.
Several teachers interviewed said many schools hired foreigners because they had a "iconic white face."
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Because a white face, you can teach, even if there's a visa problem.
Nathaniel Kempster, a French and British citizen, came to China on a student visa in 2006.
He said he had been asked to teach in kindergarten, but he did not have a valid work visa.
"you don't even need to be an English native," he said. "you just need to have a white face. It's the most important, it's the first criterion."
In this way, he went to kindergarten at the weekend to teach English, teaching for six months. In the meantime,
He didn't get a job sign or a teaching certificate.
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Until he was questioned about his qualifications, he was taken away by the authorities and spent the night at the police station.
Kempster told reporters that schools with foreign teachers make extra money, so his employer would rather pay a fine than hire a local teacher. After all, fines are only a small sum compared to the money they make, says Kempster. "in China, people from the West are considered superior."
"and as long as you're a Westerner, people think you're obviously very good at English, even though some people aren't."
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Recruitment revelation: White people, who speak English, are gone.
If you are a white person who can speak English, you can certainly find a job teaching English in China.
Even if you don't have work experience, you don't have a teacher's card, you don't have a job visa,
Many schools will still be willing to hire you. You don't even have to post your resume and find a job yourself.
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Just as Norwegian-born Eric came to Kunming, China, to learn Chinese, he found a part-time job teaching English less than two weeks after his arrival in China.
"when I was standing in front of a roadside noodle stand, a woman came forward and asked me,'do you want to come to work in our school?'" he recalled. "then she smiled and gave me a card. 'you can start work tomorrow.'"
"I was confused, and I told her I couldn't speak Chinese yet. And my mother tongue is not English. "
"but she said it was okay, and she kept asking me if I wanted to try it. So I went. "
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Eric's part-time training school, located in a building in downtown Kunming, rents a room one day a week as a classroom.
When the first day passed, the boss told him to start the first class in two hours.
Teaching here does not require TOEFL or anything; there is no need for a teacher's qualification.
And because Eric doesn't have a work visa, the salary is paid to him privately. Even so, Eric was paid three times as much as the average Chinese teacher.
"I guess the boss doesn't even know which country I'm from," Eric said.
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The United States wanted criminals to China has become a "ten thousand fans" foreign teacher!
Most of the foreign teachers interviewed said employers had little to ask for, and would not allow them to provide ESL teacher qualifications.
Even if you need to provide a certificate, you can buy a fake for $300.
The lack of censorship not only makes teachers untrained, but also the background of the crime is difficult to detect.
The Australian wide Web report also mentioned that the "wanted man to China" incident has become the most popular foreign teacher.
At that time, a Shanghai-born Ms. Wang, who lived in the United States, was surprised to find that her most popular foreign teacher in her college days was one of the 15 most wanted homicide suspects in the United States.
The foreign teacher, named Daniel William Hires, is popular with women because he is handsome, tall and strong. He is a favorite of many girls at school and is said to have even been hired by a star as a private bodyguard.
But his private life seemed to be indiscreet.
According to Ms. Wang, the foreign teacher, who had crazily pursued his friend, was angry after being refused, sending a lot of porn pictures to her friends and sexually harassing them.
After knowing what the foreign teacher had done in the United States, Ms. Wang was startled in a cold sweat.
According to the Department of Justice's website, the Daniel William Hires, from South Carolina, has 11 years of police experience and trained in martial arts combat, good shooting and a hunting license.
When he was 32, he cheated on a single mother in his marriage and sexually assaulted his lover's 10-year-old daughter, and was arrested by police.
His 24-year-old wife was shot dead at her home while he was released on bail, and Hires disappeared. Police believe it was Hires who shot his wife and fled.
Subsequently, the U.S. Department of Justice wanted Daniel William Hires on charges of murder and sexual abuse of children.
Unexpectedly, he came to China and took up a well-paid, decent job. No one knew his identity as a murderer or rapist, and he was a big fan in China.
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Uneven training institutions
See here, then perhaps a lot of people will ask, is the foreigner with Zhang Yang face to be able to be a teacher?
Actually this is not so!
It's not easy to be a regular foreign teacher in China!
In accordance with the provisions, foreign teachers employed in educational institutions in China must have a bachelor's degree or above and more than two years' relevant working experience, in addition to being healthy and having no criminal record. Or has the internationally recognized professional teacher qualification certificate, and obtains the foreign expert certificate and the foreign personnel employment certificate issued by the provincial entry and exit administration department in the provincial people's society department, only then has the qualification to teach.
Sydney-born Anya Filla-Dwehus, who has taught English in China for 18 years, says it is difficult for foreigners to work in areas where they are qualified because of China's strict goverment rules, the Australian Broadcasting Network reported.
"but most white English teachers just stay briefly, teach English, and then leave," she said.
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This is why in the absence of qualifications, many foreigners still become teachers?
These unqualified foreigners come in with a tourist visa or a business visa, because they have a foreign face, so they are invited by some institutions or schools to be "foreign teachers" and become "black foreign teachers" in the field of foreign teaching.
Some foreigners, do not have any teaching qualifications, training institutions can also make up their education and teaching experience, give them the "gold medal foreign teacher" and many other resounding titles.
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Because the number of qualified foreign teachers is limited, it is far from enough for the English-language education market, which has millions of students pouring in every year.
Today, language training schools are searching for white faces in the home-teaching industry, which is growing at an average annual rate of 15 per cent, to meet the exuberant demand for foreign teachers in the Chinese market.
In China, parents want their children to speak English fluently and pronounce them like foreigners.
Many parents who pay a lot of money to teach outside classes do not speak English themselves, so it is difficult for them to track the progress of their children's learning, let alone teachers' teaching standards.
"some educational institutions have come to the point of hunger and no choice for food, knowing that the other party has no qualifications and no teaching ability, but they only value their foreigners' faces," he said.
What they want is not competent foreign teachers, but foreigners dressed up in front of them, "said Xiong Bingqi, vice-president of the 21st Century Institute of Education," said Xiong Bingqi, vice president of the 21st Century Education Institute.
This is also the use of parents to foreign teachers in pursuit of psychology.
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Admittedly, there are indeed some foreign teachers who love the cause of education and have excellent professional qualities.
But there are also many foreigners, just teaching English as a 20-hour-a-week work, can live a comfortable life. They're fine,
But their students are likely to fall victim to poor education.
Lynette Kim, director of TESOL Australia, said untrained foreigners becoming teachers would have a lasting negative impact on students and teachers themselves.
This may affect students' pronunciation, language expression, their ability to make sentences, and even their interest in continuing to learn English.
In this face-watching world, white faces are not equal to high-quality courses.