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A teacher in Chiang Mai

Is it paradise or pants?

In Ajarn Guests: Articles - 17th November 2007

Few teachers know Chiang Mai better than Andy B. Although he started working there for less than 10,000 baht a month, he soon found out that displaying a degree of professionalism reaped dividends.

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Discrimination against Filipinos

Are the Filipinos getting a fair crack?

In Ajarn Guests: Articles - 3rd November 2007

Straight-talking Australian teacher Ajarn X has written an excellent article on racial discrimination in Thailand, and also what makes the good Filipino teachers very good and the bad ones extremely bad. Not just a good read for Filipinos, but anyone who teaches in Thailand.

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Go on, give us a job!

No degree? No teaching certificate? No experience?

In Ajarn Street: Articles - 31st October 2007

All you've got is the language you learned as a baby. Is it still possible to get a job teaching English in Thailand? Ajarn.com picked eight random phone numbers from the jobs offered board and called them up. Dangerous things happen when ajarn.com's got time on its hands. (Names have been changed to avoid causing embarrassment. And there's certainly plenty of that)

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How to land that job

Tips for getting a teaching job in Thailand.

In Help & Guides: Articles - 30th October 2007

Thinking of interviewing for teaching jobs? What's the best way to go about it? And why contacting employers by e-mail is an absolute no no.

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The ajarn.com job survey

Some brilliant answers to some frankly daft and predictable questions

In Ajarn Street: Articles - 6th August 2007

We surveyed twenty-five schools and institutes that advertise regularly on the ajarn.com jobs board. Here is a selection of their answers. We fed the answers into the bat-computer and came up with an interesting combination of academic analysis and bullshit that does nothing else if not just fill up web-pages.

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An Indian teacher in Thailand

Bobo Meitei faces the perils and pitfalls of finding a teaching job

In Ajarn Guests: Articles - 5th August 2007

Bobo gets to grips with sliding pay scales and agents bemused by his pseudo-American appearance. Well worth a read!

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Beating the teacher trap

Is teaching English really all there is?

In Ajarn Street: Articles - 12th July 2007

Is it possible to escape the teacher trap? If you think that teaching is the only thing in Thailand that foreigners can do (apart from own a beer bar in Pattaya of course) - well here are ten stories to prove you wrong.

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Colored education

The road to becoming a teacher

In Ajarn Guests: Articles - 26th May 2007

Bobo Metei came to Thailand as a fresh graduate on the lookout for different things. So being a young man with little money in his pocket, he decided to take up teaching.

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Minority report

B.Ed teachers in Thailand

In Blogs Archived: Taiwan Troll - 2nd November 2006

Language schools often do not recognize the qualifications of a B.Ed. teacher. Often directors of schools have no background in the field of education and so do not know how to assess the credentials of a B.Ed. teacher.

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