BangkokTeacher

Interesting.    https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwHNqDczKDRBnkbPqVbHLqGLHxM?projector=1

So, there you are. We can all now open again on the 15th, IF the goverment gives the go ahead at their next meeting, unfortunately my school finishes on Friday, 12th,  so good luck to all the Brits carrying out beta testing for us Yanks.....let us know how it goes. See you August....

On 6/6/2020 at 2:23 PM, khunPer said:

If you have a job and documentation from abroad, you can enter Thailand, but without that you will not be able to get in before July 1st; perhaps even later, but nobody can for sure predict the situation.

 

If you are looking for a teaching position in an international school where the academic year begin around 1st September, it's however my impression that the demand for international schools are decreasing, probably due to the Covid-19 crisis. In my area one out of five Cambridge curriculum international schools is closing down, and another is combining three classes per year into two, due to decreasing number of students. I don't know if teachers have left/are leaving.

 

You may have better options with Thai schools, or bi-lingual schools (EP/English Program), but they follow the Thai academic year beginning 1st July this year.

International school wise it very much depends upon what school you are at and which company, if any, own them. There are quite a few stories about some conglomerate schools who are laying off teachers, cancelling new contracts not paying end of term gratuities. My school is a larger one in Bangkok and we have been told that there will be no payrise this year but that signing on bonuses would still be paid. All of our new teachers will be coming for next year, dependent upon the government allowing flights in! I Also believe though that, if you are at one of the smaller, less well financed schools who wait until later in the cycle to recruit that you may be in trouble. People all over the world certainly seem to want to stay where they are, according to our admissions people we have lost about 40, kids so not too bad, it all depends upon whom we can pick up once the nightmare ends.

I fear that the arrogance came when the Heads planned to open, and told their parents that they were planning to do so, when they uploaded videos to Youtube outlining what would happen, without the express permission of the government, not OPEC. However, obviously you are much better informed than I. I bow to your superior knowledge. Blaming the press though? That is rich....

The arrogance of some of the International school managers really has to be seen to be believed. They bulldozed their way through May telling their parents that they would reopen on June the first whilst whipping their staff up into an utter stress fired frenzy and spending literally millions of baht on "improvements" such as infra red heat detectors and kick boards for each door. No one had actually told them that they could do this and they were, quite rightly rebuked by the government. Why should rich kids get to go to school when ordinary Thai's could not? Cue Heads scuttling into their offices and not being heard much of for the last week....The evidence is all on Youtube though!

BT

20 years ago when I first worked at Patana it was THE best school in Bangkok. Not so any more. IB Classes used to be around 12 which is what one would expect from a top public school, very few language problems, because most of the ex pat parents sent their kids there. Now, classes of 25 plus. IB results through the floor. Rich Thais are filling the seats that used to be full of ex pats. Unhappy staff and a totally disorganised campus because they cannot expand the way that other schools have been able to owing to the tiny footprint of their school. To be honest though, my current school charges more than Patana now, however, it gets better results both exam wise and with university progressions.