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Lrom53 · Tue 02-Dec-08, 04:50 PM

Let me just say this you are absolutly correct, and I will be willing to attest to what I am about to say in a court of law. I am currently a teacher with Cambridge CITC Sudan, all I would like to do is warn all TEFL/ESL teachers away from this establishment. Let me start by letting potential teachers what has happened to not only myself but every foreign national that has been hired by this establishment.(Do not even try to contact the staff they have posted on thier website they are just pictures taken from Google and the e-mail addresses are fake the owner or his family are the real people replying to you) Firstly they tell you and promise you in your contract that you are provided with transportation to and from work, a flat, utilities, visa, and eating utensils. Well if you live in one or two kilometers they will tell you to walk, the flat is nothing more than a manky old cave, utilities are another story, if you need water or electricity, you have to beg, plead, then finally threaten physical violence or legal actions, your visa is another joke first it is temporary, then they let it expire making you an illegal immigrant plus they do not give your passport back without a fight. (basically you have to get your embassy involved and more lawyers if you try to leave your contract early they will just have you arrested and your embassy is useless because Sudan never signed and UN accords). As far as every day eating utensils are concerned good luck on that one maybe one or two of the very, very basics and of those they are broken or will break very easily.Then there is the promise of over time which they will never pay you for or the bonus that they promise but never pay for. The management and owners are completely unqualified (unless you consider the online degrees they have bought) and drunkards(the owners favorite is Johnny Walker Red Label), of course this is in a country were any liquor is forbidden. (Of course since they have keys to your flat, because you are not allowed privacy, watch out he might show up at your flat drunk wanting some action especially if you are a woman) Then there is the school itself, The students are usually charged up to 6 months worth of salary. If the students can not afford copies of the books no problem, The schools will make illegal copies of either the Headway series or the Skill's in English series for the students including bootleg copies of the tapescripts for about 75% of the original price. The hours for teaching are atrocious, first off you will be working a split shift 6 days a week 12 hours a day. Forget about the every other weekend they promise you. The students get taught general English from the Headway series in 54 hours every other day for 1.5 hours at a time (every other reputable establishment 100 hours). The skill's in English is offered as a communications course.(of course Terry Phillips himself totally denounced this usage of his book) Then the school expects you to teach without any supplementation, or lesson planning of any type. If you need to do it don't even bother the school will try to charge the teacher this expense. This is nothing but an abortion of education. I would not wish this establishment on my worst enemy let alone Satan

himself. I have a post on the new tefl blacklist and TEFL Watch as well. Plus various other sites trying to warn as many as I can.

Tue 02-Dec-08, 04:50 PM	#5 (permalink)
Lrom53 ESL Newbie Join Date: Dec 2008 Occupation: Teacher Location: Posts: 1	Re: Cambridge International Center- Khartoum Sudan Let me just say this you are absolutly correct, and I will be willing to attest to what I am about to say in a court of law. I am currently a teacher with Cambridge CITC Sudan, all I would like to do is warn all TEFL/ESL teachers away from this establishment. Let me start by letting potential teachers what has happened to not only myself but every foreign national that has been hired by this establishment.(Do not even try to contact the staff they have posted on thier website they are just pictures taken from Google and the e-mail addresses are fake the owner or his family are the real people replying to you) Firstly they tell you and promise you in your contract that you are provided with transportation to and from work, a flat, utilities, visa, and eating utensils. Well if you live in one or two kilometers they will tell you to walk, the flat is nothing more than a manky old cave, utilities are another story, if you need water or electricity, you have to beg, plead, then finally threaten physical violence or legal actions, your visa is another joke first it is temporary, then they let it expire making you an illegal immigrant plus they do not give your passport back without a fight. (basically you have to get your embassy involved and more lawyers if you try to leave your contract early they will just have you arrested and your embassy is useless because Sudan never signed and UN accords). As far as every day eating utensils are concerned good luck on that one maybe one or two of the very, very basics and of those they are broken or will break very easily.Then there is the promise of over time which they will never pay you for or the bonus that they promise but never pay for. The management and owners are completely unqualified (unless you consider the online degrees they have bought) and drunkards(the owners favorite is Johnny Walker Red Label), of course this is in a country were any liquor is forbidden. (Of course since they have keys to your flat, because you are not allowed privacy, watch out he might show up at your flat drunk wanting some action especially if you are a woman) Then there is the school itself, The students are usually charged up to 6 months worth of salary. If the students can not afford copies of the books no problem, The schools will make illegal copies of either the Headway series or the Skill's in English series for the students including bootleg copies of the tapescripts for about 75% of the original price. The hours for teaching are atrocious, first off you will be working a split shift 6 days a week 12 hours a day. Forget about the every other weekend they promise you. The students get taught general English from the Headway series in 54 hours every other day for 1.5 hours at a time (every other reputable establishment 100 hours). The skill's in English is offered as a communications course.(of course Terry Phillips himself totally denounced this usage of his book) Then the school expects you to teach without any supplementation, or lesson planning of any type. If you need to do it don't even bother the school will try to charge the teacher this expense. This is nothing but an abortion of education. I would not wish this establishment on my worst enemy let alone Satan himself. I have a post on the new tefl blacklist and TEFL Watch as well. Plus various other sites trying to warn as many as I can.