Saturday, August 30, 2014

Would YOU work for 20K in London?

Well, would you? If you’re an EFL teacher you’d probably have to, but did you also know that – even as a Diploma-qualified Tefler with the following attributes, you may well have to!

• Experience of delivering examination classes ( FCE/CAE/CPE/IELTS) 
 • Experience of working in multilingual classroom 
 • Experience with continuous assessment, adapting lessons to meet individual needs, giving tutorials and setting learning goals 
 • Proficiency in time management and record keeping 
 • Can demonstrate a strong commitment to own CPD 
 • Confident with using IT in the classroom including IWBs
 • Flexibility and cultural awareness

Yes, step forward the Wimbledon School of English for advertising such a demanding job with so little reward!

I’m rather surprised, and not a little disappointed, that despite this very same school having won the highest of all possible marks in its recent British Council inspection, it’s still offering shit salaries for Dip teachers with oodles of experience.

 What’s worse, the ad makes no mention of how many of hours of classroom capers you’ll have to put in before they cough up that mighty 385 quid every week. If it’s around the 25 mark, that means you’ll be in effect working for something like a pisspoor 15 quid an hour!

Mind you, they do offer a free lunch. Whether you’re allowed a doggy-bag to help prevent yourself from starving to death on their shit salary is not clear, however. 

 Care to comment on that, Fiona Dunlop and Jane Dancaster?

23 comments:

Anonymous said...

Of course they're taking the piss. The school's Principal is Number 1 Big Cheese in English UK, who are dedicated to screwing as much out of teachers as they can. So what do you expect?

Danno said...

This lot are a bit up their own arse. Think they're the bees-knees when in fact they are just a small cut above the rest - especially when it comes to salaries!

EFFULGENT SHIGHTER said...

WIBBLE WIBBLE wibble. BEATEN in the EE VO LOOSHUNARY race AGAIN.FLOREAT WINDSORAMA,chavsters with your bitten BIROS and UNCOUTH tattooed accents. unlike ME with my BLAZER and WRIGHTFUL wrighting and SHIGHTFUL shighting. GIBBER GIBBER GIBBER. I am NOT the EFFULGENT and LAMBENT SPARK that is PAUL LOWE and TOUCHES boys.

Anonymous said...

Hey, who let the Windsor Windbag out again?
Keep 'im in 'is bloody box!

SHIGHTER said...

I SAUNTER in the FOUL VENNELS of CASTLE-TOWN and pause only to DEFUCKATE on the PAVEMENT.The HOI-POLLOI do not UNDERSTAND my PULSATING ARCITRAVAL BRAIN.
'Pack it in,you trampy CUNT!'they BURBLE and GIBBER.

Boris said...

It's outfits like WSE that have perfected the 'Tefl Trap' in the UK. They charge the students top dollar and just palm off their most important resource, the teachers, with mediocre salaries.

It's no wonder Dancaster is the toast of English UK - she's provided the template for lining the school owners' pockets and fleecing thousands of EFL teachers at the same time!

Ken said...

TBH I think 6th form colleges and adult education services have caught on to this trend.

Recently a couple of colleges in Manchester (big state funded ones) were advertising for full time ESOL tutors (1090 contact hours) and 37 hours you had to be there.

The experience and qualification requirements dwarfed those of this advert. The pay? £21,000 pro-rata of course as they don't want to pay you for the summer time ~ £15K

Time to enact those backup plans!

Anonymous said...

These places are paying less per hour than I earned in colleges when I was in the UK in 2004, and I didn't feel wealthy then. It's scary shit, especially when working for a demented thieving tosser like Paul Lowe might pay better and be less painful.

Lawrence said...


It is better than Dovenail House in Bristol. Run by Hungarians, it has just done a bunk with all the cash owing about £20,000 to the teachers. Bastards.

Vote Yes! said...

Well that's Tefl for you, a sad job for sad losers who can't even earn the same as a traffic warden, despite their degrees!

William Frederickson said...

Vote 'Yes' and take Wee Mad Alfie with you. "Bucket O'Shite' can be the new Scottish national anthem. It'd be more fitting,given the state that an independent Scotland will most likely be in.

Anonymous said...

That guy on the bench - could it just possibly be ... Paul Lowe?!?

Anonymous said...

How strange - no comment from the D-dykes, Dunlop and Dancaster.

Do they actually have NOTHING to say for once?!

William Fuckshitson said...

Don't know if the Harold Ramp on the bench is Paul Lowe,but with a special 'scratch 'n sniff'panel and the help of Ashley Arnold, Simon 'Pig-Fucker'Green or that slimy toilet-loiterer Robert Weeks,we could find out! All three of 'em had their noses and worse I suspect up Paul Lowe's arse-hole...

William Fuckshitson said...

...and as any fule kno,tramps tend to 'hum' a bit!

William Fuckstickson said...

Should anyone want something to laugh and point at this morning, check out 'Welcome to Windsor English' on Youtube. Paul Lowe telling lies as usual : whenever his gob opens.

http//www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLf-z-F2do

I expected him to launch into a rant about how wonderful he is or the merits of 'long defuckation,' but he didn't. Hell's fucking bells, the Defuckator must be on some strong medication!

Anonymous said...

Better still, try this:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLXf-Z-F2do

What a whitewash!!

Ken said...

Hi

How can I add a crap school onto the list?

I just had somebody offer me a whopping £7.25 an hour. I have no idea how he got a hold of my CV.

William Frederickson said...

Elsewhere that creepy little cockplug Simon Groin has set up a private consultancy specialising in talking drivel,sorry,employment consultancy.Possibly because a benefit claimant or two forced to deal with TWIN's applied shelf-stacking and practical tea-making courses offered to severely twat the little pidor...'Green Leaf'is the name of his latest venture. A better name might be 'Packet Of Cunt.'

William Shitcuntson said...

Sorry...'New Leaf.' Goddamned bad hangover today.In any case,a pile of shit however you look at it.

Delboy said...

Shocking language, William!

Surely 'PG Twits' would suffice?

Or 'Windsor Windbags'?

Anonymous said...

Chavvy teflrs
Outwitted
OUTGUNNED
AGAIN
With your bloated
DRASTIC
Web of
SHIGHT
I will
WRIGHT
FIGHT
And SHIGHT
In my TROUSERS
In the PORCH ROOM
On the PAVEMENTS of CASTLE Town
The welkin throng do not
UNDERSTAND
They do not appreciate my CLASSICAL DEFUCKATION
They have no Breeding
They do NOT have
A HERRING AND SPANNER
CADBURY S EGG AND SPOON
TICKATOO
Tickatoooooo
OWLLLLLLL
BELM DRIBBLE SPAZ
WIBBLE








Ken said...

Look at this fucking travesty

ESOL Tutor / Administrator (Functional Skills English)

We are a leading training, careers advice and examination centre located in Islington and operating for the last 15 years. We are looking for young (or young at heart) and energetic individuals to join our team as English Tutor (Functional Skills) / Administrator.

Applicants must have EXCELLENT communication and IT skills. You must be university graduate (English lit. or lang. graduates preferable) and must hold teaching qualification/s like PTLLS, CELTA, MA in TESOL or any other.

Main duties includes: giving information, advice and support to learners, registration, marking the assignments, preparing learners for English Functional Skills exams, conduction Speaking & Listening sessions, doing necessary the paperwork and entering the support online.

We expect all our tutors work as team and run the English, Maths, IT and Employability provisions together and report back to the Manager. Positions are related to online teaching systems therefore not much classroom based teaching. You will benefit from our internal trainings as well as external trainings.

Opening hours: Mon-Fri 9:30am - 6:00pm and Sat 10:00 - 2:00pm

Salary: £14,000 - £16,000 pa

46.5 hours ~ £5.78/h SUB MIN WAGE on £14K a year or £6.61

11p more than minimum wage!

I expect queues to form up like no tomorrow lads! Considering this post was work in London for 20K. This is less than that.