Should the school pay for the cost of a work permit?

posted 22nd May 2009

In my opinion every school should pay for the costs of the work permit, visa and teaching licence but sadly many still don’t. We’re not talking about a great deal of money here and making the teacher pay for this stuff themselves always smacks of penny-pinching.

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