Topic: news Foreign Teacher Training Institutions: The Only Qualification Necessary is a Foreign Face

Ok there's another side to this. Sure many schools look for a white face and a native speaker as the prime suspects but suppose the job ad read like this: Sausage Factory English or Joy-O-Joy Kids needs English teachers. Requirements: 1) native speaker 2) bachelor degree (verified with university) 3) Academic TESOL certificate e.g CELTA not short course 4) teaching experience at least 2 years Must love kids or must love students. Salary 8-10k plus apartment, 1 week holiday plus Chinese holidays, work weekends and nights. Now for Dirty Air University 1 to 4 above plus 5) Teaching degree or diploma 6) Masters or PhD Salary 6-8k with apartment, 4 weeks paid holidays plus Chinese holidays Must love bureacracy How many applicants would they get if they really enforced these standards? If I had a Masters degree (I only have a Bachelor with Honours) I'd go to the Middle East or somewhere else for a better salary, not China unless I had a good reason to be in China. So they lower standards to fill positions. Conclusion: It's great to talk about raising standards but the reality would be a teacher shortage. Solution that won't happen: bring is Filipino teachers. They speak good American English, work hard and will accept lower wages. But Filipinos are not popular in China and would the parents go for it?