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No Vacancies for the Aesthetically Challenged.
From this advertisement in last week’s Cambodia Daily we can deduce that Phnom Penh’s ‘ASEAN UNIVERSITY’ is currently recruiting ten new teachers, but by casting our eyes over the person specification it seems obvious that they have set their standards…
A Departing Head Teacher Speaks Out
As Head Teacher of SITC Phnom Penh since it’s opening in September 2002 I have dealt with many western teachers. Well over a hundred in fact! It’s been my job and desire to help them as much as I can…
Drunken Dances and Violent Games with Fetching Office Girls: The Khmer New Year Staff Party
When the management declared that we would all stop work at noon on the last day before the recent holiday to have a staff party, most of the foreign staff anticipated the cultural awkwardness to come and skipped out to…
Teacher of the Week: Lee from England
Lee: I’ve never been interviewed before except by the police 440: It’s OK; I’m not working for the Dept of Homeland security. So Lee, you’re sitting there looking very suave and sophisticated with a beer in your hand and your…
Another Brick In The Wall
“Wrong, Do it again! If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don”t eat yer meat? You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!” Problems: Discipline That song…
From the horse’s mouth – New World vs ELT
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By now everyone is aware of the feud between the well established ELT Institute, and the newly arrived New World Institute. It’s a battle royale, the prize being the lucrative business of Cambodia’s academia. Within 440′s Forum, there has been…