A selection of the latest education news and jobs from around the world:
Overview
Where are international educators looking towards as we enter August 2022?
Followers of the market will have seen that the majority of jobs in the United Arab Emirates have been snapped up for September, as teachers seem to be gravitating towards its relative openness and luxurious lifestyle for professionals.
The territory’s desirability has some lessons for Hong Kong, which is struggling to meet its staffing needs for local and international schools. Out of step with most of the world, the government is still imposing Covid regulations on travel and local schooling, which is discouraging expat educators from either staying or arriving. Local teachers too are leaving in droves, with many opting for a new life in Dubai, Australia, or the UK.
The trend in Hong Kong mirrors deglobalisation policies adopted in China, which has sought to nationalise international schools and clamp down on tutorial centres that previously employed expats. Some solutions for disenfranchised educators have cropped up in the digital realm, with TESOL teachers increasingly starting online tutorial schools to meet the demands of students in East Asia.
India, meanwhile, has set ambitious aims to globalise its higher education system, and, perhaps with construction projects in mind, has highlighted engineering as one of its target subjects. Internally, PGCE Jobs has received anecdotal reports of international teachers looking to leave India rather than stay, but the government’s stated ambitions could have some intriguing outcomes as international school leaders look to new possibilities abroad.
English-speaking countries are swamped with staffing shortages, as the USA, UK, and Australia have reported little positivity since this blog began. This week, the US is predicting shortages for the Fall, while a play in Australia, ‘Chalkface‘, narrates the failures of the public school system. While the opportunities are there, it seems that there is limited appetite among educators to take them on.
Are the United Arab Emirates and India the only education systems that look promising in the long-term for international school educators, or do you have a different story? Comment below or send your opinion piece to [email protected] to be featured in future updates.
Current Jobs (@pgcejobs.com)
Dubai International Academy, Emirates City – Vice Principal
Newton British Academy, Qatar – Environmental Management and Geography Teacher
Yu Chun Keung Memorial College – Native-speaking English Teacher
BASIS Bilingual School, Shenzhen – English Language Arts Teacher
United School International Qatar – Spanish Teacher
Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Leo Tung-hai Lee Primary School – Native-speaking English Teacher
Tin Shui Wai Catholic Primary School – Native-speaking English Teacher
Blossom House School – Early Years Teaching Assistant
The School of Research Science – Chemistry Teacher
Collegiate International School – IB Arabic Teacher
Deira International School – English Teacher
British International School Riyadh – English and Drama Teacher
News
Around Africa
Opinion: African countries should remove barriers that keep young mothers out of schools
Australia
Chalkface: a new play tackling Australia’s neglect of its public schools
China
OLEA: A diary of building a new online tutorial school for Chinese students
Dubai
UAE teacher upskill for a changing world
Around the EU
Estonian women still the among the EU’s most highly educated
Hong Kong
Schools to maintain half-day schedule from September
India
The globalization of Indian education in the post-pandemic age
Russia
Former Russian education minister held in custody for embezzlement
Ukraine
Education minister: 641,000 students to stay abroad
United Kingdom
School mindfulness lessons don’t work for teenagers, study says
Contemplation can help problem-solving and boost creativity, study says
United States
The outlook is bad for schools hiring this Fall
Alex Jones ordered to pay back $4,000,000 for saying Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax
Alex Jones ordered to pay $45,000,000 more in damages
