China School Blacklist And Whitelists For Foreign Expat Teachers: 2014

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Hey Foreign ESL, TEFL, & AP Teachers! The CFTU Needs Your Help To Update Our 2016 China School & Recruiter White & Blaclists

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As another year comes to a close it is time to update our ESL - TEFL & AP China School & Recruiter White and Blacklist. And of course, without YOU, these lists could not exist or help advise others how to work safe in China. If you are in China use this link: http://www.bjstuff.com/profiles/blogs/your-help-needed-to-update-the-2015-cftu-china-esl-tefl-school If you are outside of China, just scroll down...

Since 2010, the CFTU as served as an early warning system for all of you willing to take the time to investigate with whom you entrust your teaching career. We have exposed 79 scams, 87 scam recruiters, 23 identity thieves, and best of all, found 897 honest and reputable schools that are now on our current 2014 white list. Although our blacklist is updated every 90 days, our white list is an annual affair (much more comprehensive and tedious for our volunteers to deal with). We count on YOU - the actual China ESL, TEFL, IELTS, TOEFL, SAT, GRE & AP teaching community to keep us informed of the good, the bad, the ugly, and of course, the best.

Contrary to all the BS and rumors spread by our beloved China job agents and recruiters that we have exposed in the past, no amount of money will add any school to our white list nor remove any entity from our blacklist. If five or more actual teachers endorse a school where they have actually worked for one year, and complete our survey below, the school is added to the whitelist, if we can confirm that 1) They are properly licensed to hire foreigners in China and sponsor Z visas, 2) Have no more than 1 unresolved complaint on file, and 3) Agree that a a CFTU rep can randomly visit the the school and privately interview up to 3 teachers selected by the rep.

Getting on the blacklist is not so difficult. If a particular agent or school receives more than 3 complaints in one year it triggers an investigation by the CFTU to determine if 1) The agent/recruiter is properly licensed to do business in China, 2) Willing to provide their true legal identification, and 3) willing to resolve outstanding complaints in a fair and reasonable manner. If they balk and show no interest in resolving complaints or refuse to show proof of licensing, and present a verifiable government citizenship card or passport, they are blacklisted. Grounds for immediate blacklisting aside from those above include:

* Caught selling or buying resumes from third parties

* Proven affiliation with identity theft rings

* Charging money for invitation or release letters

* Advising teacher applicants that they can legally work in China without a Z visa or bachelor degree

* Caught selling fake diplomas, TEFL/TESOL certificates, and/or fake referral letters of recommendation

So, now comes the part where we ask you to invest 10 minutes of your busy day to help advise, warn, or recommend the agents, and recruiters you have used, and schools where you have worked for at least one year. You name/email will never be revealed and you will never be spammed by the CFTU (We don't sell, promote, nor advertise any product nor service) For schools, this is what we need to know:

1- Your email and first name for any verification issue or clarification (especially if a complaint is involved)

2- Name and location of the school

3- Dates of employment

4- Name of the Principal, FAO, or Headmaster

5- Was their contract fair?

6- Were you provided a TA?

7- Were you paid for overtime hours?

8- What was your salary?

9- Were you paid on time and in full?

10- Was housing provided and was it clean and heated?

11- How many teachers lived in your shared apartment?

12- Was your contract honored in full?

13- Were your bonuses and holiday pay provided in full?

14- Were you provided an invitation and release letter free of charge?

15- Did your school require you to take TEFL or TESOL training and if so, at whose expense?

16- Did your school insist that you work with a specific recruiter and if so who?

17- Did you have to pay any deposits and if so for what and were those deposits refunded to you?

18- Were you provided practical and standardized curriculum or did you prepare your own?

19- Were you treated fairly, professionally, and respectfully by the staff?

20- Were you ever fined and if so, why and how much?

21- Did your school make any false representations to you, and if so please explain in 5 sentences or less

22- Did your school ever retain your passport for more than 3-5 days?

23- Did your school sponsor you for a Z visa and if so, at whose expense?

24- Did yur school ever ask you to lie to parents, students, other teachers or make a fake review? Explain if the answer is yes.

25- How would you rate this school on a scale of 1-10 with 10 being "excellent" and 1 being "unacceptable".

Send your answers to this survey to Joel@ChinaForeignTeachersUnion.org

Regarding recruiters that you want to recommend or expose as being unethical or dishonest, just send an email to Reports@ChinaForeignTeachersUnion.org and be specific and civil please. Reports that merely say "Li Peng is a greedy bastard" will be ignored. We need specific examples and all the contact info for the recruiter and the name they provided you and their real name if you know it.

Since 2010, complaints from teachers have dropped 12% and the white list has expanded 18%. So your feedback has definitely been making a difference. Our goal for 2015 is to build our white lst to at least 1,000 licensed schools, universities, kindergartnes, and learning centers that hire foreigners. We thank you for your continued support and cooperation. Our new white and blacklists will be published no later than January 10th, 2015. To learn more about our many free programs and resources, please visit http://www.ChinaForeignTeachersUnion.org

Happy Holidays To All!
The CFTU Staff

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Monday, December 1, 2014

2016 CFTU China TEFL, ESL, & AP School & Job Recruiter White & Blacklist...

Attention all TEFL, ESL, & AP foreign teacher professionals... do not send nor upload your resume to anyone related to a China job until you have a chance to read the three links below or you have a 25% chance that you will become a victim of identity theft or a 50% of getting cheated by an unlicensed China job recruiter or school. As of right now there are over 650 scammers hoping you do not find this post!

To avoid the identity thieves read this: http://ChinaScamWatch.wordpress.com

To check out any China job agent or recruiter for free within 15 minutes, read: http://www.bjstuff.com/profiles/blogs/cftu-dyi-guide-how-to-check-out-a-china-foreign-teacher-job-1

To see if your new school or recruiter is blacklisted, read: http://www.ChinaForeignTeachersUnion.org

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Saturday, February 1, 2014

The 2016 China Trivia Quiz - Compliments Of The China Foreign Teachers Union

How much do you think you know about China?

Here is your chance to find out!

BTW... If you are looking for the CFTU school or agent blacklist go here:

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Now Take The Test - And No Cheating!

Part I

1. Using only the above map and your memory, name and identify the provinces.

2. Can you name at least 15 capital cities of the provinces?

3. Without actually counting on the map, how many provinces are there?

4. How many dynasties did China have?

5. Who was the last Emperor?

6. Name 5 former Capital cities of China besides Peking.

7. What are the three most common family names in China.

8. Name five great items that were invented in China.

9. Where was Confucius born and rasied?

10. In what province will we find the City of Hangzhou

11. In what year did Chairman Mao die?

12. What is "Fodan"?

13. What is the fastest growing city in China today?

14. Where is Beijing's second international airport being built?

15. China, Italy, Russia, Singapore, Korea. Which country pays teachers best and worst?

16. How long is the Great Wall of China?

17. How fast can China's bullet trains travel?

18. Which is the largest city in China?

19. Which is the oldest city in China?

20. What is "Dofou"?

Part II - True Or False...

21. Google offers free legal download of music in China, in partnership with the largest record labels in the world (since 2009).

22. All pandas in the world are on loan from China, and when a baby Panda is born, by agreement, it is sent back to China to help expand the gene pool. The baby pandas are shipped back by FedEx.

23. There is a “cult” offshoot of Christianity in China that believes Jesus is currently living in China as a Chinese woman.

24. China is said to suffer from the worst brain drain in the world. 7 out of 10 students who enroll overseas never move back to live in China.

25. Pencils are yellow because, in the 1890′s, the world’s best pencil graphite came from China. In China, the color yellow is associated with royalty, so American pencil manufacturers started painting their pencils yellow to indicate they contained high-quality Chinese graphite.

26. There is a counterfeit egg industry in China, and one person can make approximately 1500 of them per day.

27. Tickling was a form of torture used in ancient China on nobility because it left no mark and recovery was quick.

28. When McDonald’s first introduced drive-throughs to China, the concept was so foreign that many people would pick up their food through the drive-thru, park their cars, and bring the food inside the restaurant to eat it.

29. Despite spanning five time zones, all of China runs on Beijing time. Sunrise in the city of Kashgar/Zhongquo (in Western China) officially occurs as late as 10:17 AM.

30. During WWII, Japan bombed China with fleas infected with bubonic plague.

31. There used to be fake Apple stores in China. Even the staff were convinced that they were working for Apple

32. Rich people in China hire body doubles to serve their prison sentence

33. Brad Pitt was banned from ever entering China because of his role in Seven Years in Tibet.

34. A man in China has kept himself alive with a homemade dialysis machine for 13 years.

35. In ancient China, they used Mannequins to lure the enemies to shoot arrows, which they later pulled down to get free supply of arrows.

36. In 2006, China slaughtered 50,000 dogs after three people died of rabies. Dogs being walked were seized from their owners and beaten to death on the spot. Owners were offered 63 cents per animal to kill their own dogs before the beating teams were sent in.

37. In 1946, during a land survey of Sichuan province in China, a forester encountered a tree he had never seen before, so he took a sample. He came to find it was as yet unknown to science and only existing as a fossil. It came to be known as the ‘Dawn Redwood’.

38. A forbidden love in China between a young man and older widowed woman forced the couple to live in a mountain cave. Over the course of 50 years, the man carved a 6,000 stairs into the mountainside so that his wife could easily descend from the cave.

39. Elgoog.com (Google backwards) has a huge following in China because because elgooG search terms are printed in reverse, so users are able to perform Google searches without detection by the Chinese government’s search filters.

40. 2 ancient cities in China were drowned in 1959 by a man-made lake and were forgotten about, until they were discovered in 2001 by a tourist diving company. The cities remain intact and in good condition.

41. China has planted the biggest artificial forest in the world to stop the spread of the Gobi desert, and plans to expand it to 2,800 miles by 2074

42. Chinese smoke around 2.2 trillion cigarettes a year, of which 400 billion are fake, made mostly in illegal cigarette factories in caves below a city in China, often containing 80 percent more nicotine, 130 percent.
more carbon monoxide and occasionally insect eggs and human feces.

43. An estimated 10,000 cats are eaten per day in China’s Guangdong province.

44. China set up state-sanctioned protest zones for the 2008 Olypics and then arrested people who applied to use them.

45. A museum in Hebei Provence, China, was shut down earlier this year after the majority of its 40,000 artifacts and antiques were discovered to be fakes.

46. During the 2008 Olympics, China employed 30 airplanes, 4,000 rocket launchers, and 7,000 anti-aircraft guns to stop rain by shooting various chemicals into any threatening clouds to shrink rain drops before they reached the stadium.

47. After Mao grabbed power in China, there were so many suicides in Shanghai that people were afraid to walk near skyscrapers for the fear that anyone might land on them.

48. Some people in China actually earn $50,000 a year for being professional fart smellers

49. There´s a hugely popular reality show in China that interviews death row prisoners moments before their execution.

50. In 2010, China had a traffic jam that lasted 12 days and spanned 62 miles.

TAKE A FIVE MINUTE BREAK TO LET YOUR BRAIN COOL OFF - YOU ARE HALF WAY DONE!

Part III - Fill In The Blank

51. Wong Fei is a __________________

52. Subway Line _____ in ____________ is the longest subway line in the world.

53. There are _____Ethnic people living in China today.

54. You must have a ____visa in order to legally work in China.

55. The "Golden Venture" was a Chinese ____________.

56. The current population of China is _______________.

57. The current Premier of China is _________________.

58. What is a "lao hu"? __________________________.

59. There are ____tones in the Chinese language.

60. Chinese students are always number one in ____________.

61. 2014 is the year of the _____________.

62. The _______Desert is in Northwest China is larger than Peru.

63. ____% Of Chinese university students now study abroad.

64. How doe you say "Please" and "Thank You" in Chinese? __________ __________

65. China's best and most tea grows in __________________ Province

66. Whose photo is on the 20 yuan bill in China? __________________.

67. China's "Ice Festival" is held every year in the City of ____________.

68. The hottest place to live in China is the city of __________________.

69. Chinese pandas come from the ______________area.

70. The NDRC stands for _______________________________________________.

71. The famous "Terra Cotta Warriors" were found in the city of _____________.

72. Ma Zu can be found in the province of ___________.

73. The two largest cities of Hainan Island Province are ___________ and _________.

74. China is currently the _____________ largest economy in the world.

75. China now creates _____% of all new jobs in the world.

Part IV - Chinese Culture & Art

76. The Three Kingdoms is a famous... a) play b) book c) movie d) board game

77. Wei Qi is a famous... a) play b) book c) movie d) board game

78. Tai Chi is a form of Chinese __________________________.

79. Chinese noodles are made from ________ or _________ or _________ or _________

80. China's most popular sport is ___________________________

81. What is China's most famous painting? ____________________________

82. Feng Shui is the art of ___________________________________________________

83. CTM stands for ________________________________________________________

84. The Chinese Revolution took place in what year? ______________

85. Name three Chinese musical instruments ___________ ___________ ___________

Part V - Who are these people?

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EXTRA CREDIT!

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In case you did not do as well as you thought, here are 6 extra points to help you pass.

If you score 80% or higher you can collect your prize ($200 gift certificate)

The last five bonus questions are True or False questions...

102. China is the largest country in the world.

103. America owes China almost $5 Trillion dollars.

104. China's national anthem was actually written by a Russian composer.

105. There are more Christians in China than Italy.

106. The Chinese invented the flute.

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Thursday, January 30, 2014

China Foreign Teachers Union Wishes All A Happy, Fun, & Healthy New Year In 2014

Our staff reaches out to all those brave and adventurous expats who came to China to help improve the teaching methods, standards, and quality of China's educational programs. With your help and very significant governmental reforms, China is abandoning their traditional "rote memory" way of learning in favor of creative and proactive dialogue with students. Your role in this gradual transformation will reap great rewards for China's next generation of students.

Please continue in you conscientious, sincere, diligence - it is paying off. We thank you for another year of your loyal support and urge you to stay current with news that affects your pay, rights, and welfare in china by visiting our two web sites at:

http://ChinaForeignTeachersUnion.org (Members Only)

http://ChinaForeignTeachersUnion.com (General Public)

We wish you and yours a wonderful new year and a fun adventure in China. Please spread your goodwill and remember to be a gracious and respectful guest in China.

To subscribe or for a 2016 Update please click here: http://www.ChinaForeignTeachersUnion.com

2016 China Foreign Teachers Union Fact Book On China - Everything You Need To Know About Working In China

To See What You Should Be Earning In China... Click Below
http://www.chinaforeignteachersunion.org

Whether you are coming to china to teach or to work in another profession, the CFTU wants to welcome you and arm you with all the knowledge you need to safely enjoy your China adventure. We have compiled a 2014 China Fact Book with all you need to know about Visas, Contracts, China Labor Laws, Housing, Internships, Home Stays, Salary Charts By Profession, Cost of Living, Banking, Medical Services, etc.

Below is a sampling of what you will find in our fact book which you can get for free simply by requesting it. Just send an email to CFTUFB@ChinaForeignTeachersUnion.org.

CHINA SUMMARY:

The total population of China has reached 1.45 million. Of this, the economically active population was 785.79 million at the end of 2011. At that time, China’s workforce hit 764.2 million people, with 359.14 million employed in urban and 405 million in rural China. The number of migrant workers stood at 252.78 million, with an increase of 10.55 million from 2010. Among the migrant laborers, about 158.63 million worked outside of their home province. Regarding the sectors, primary industry accounted for 34.8 percent of total employment, while secondary industry represented 29.5 percent, and tertiary industry had a share of 35.7 percent. The unemployment rate in urban China stood at 4.1 percent, and the number of unemployed persons reached 9.2 million. Employment forecasts by the Ministry of Labor project annual growth to average 3.2% per annum over through 2015. Approximately 1.6 million foreigners are employed in China. Of those, foreigners teachers account for 82% with average salaries of 16,500 yuan per month. Average salaries for professional foreigners is 52,000 yuan per month. Currently, expat foreign teachers are the lowest paid foreigners in China.

The above information was obtained from China's Ministry of Labor. The below chart was compiled by independent CFTU research conducted by our volunteer staff over the last six months based on random surveys of 500 ESL teachers working abroad in the countries researched. This may explain why fewer teachers are coming to China. CFTU members can obtain a copy of the complete report by sending an email to admin@ChinaForeignTeachersUnion.org. Here are some more cool stats...

* 85% of all toys in the world are made in China.
* 1 in every 5 people on Earth are Chinese!
* Over 600,000 foreigners now live and work in China.
* There are over 80,000 tourists arriving in China every day
* China bought $2 Trillion USD of America's debt in 2008.
* China saved the U.S. economy from bankruptcy in 2008
* 30% of all the world's new jobs are now created by China.
* There are 39 million more men than women in China.
* 50,000 cigarettes are smoked every second in China.
* The world's biggest dam and bridge are in China.
* China's bullet train is twice as fast as America's fastest train (302 mph)
* Chinese people have sex twice as often as most Americans.
* 25% of all gamblers in Las Vegas are now Chinese.
* The world's largest shopping mall is in China.
* China graduates more university students than America and Canada combined.
* 40% of all luxury cars and good are now purchased in China.
* China has the world's fastest growing economy.
* Chinese students have the highest test scores in the world.
* A 10 mile taxi fare is roughly $2
* China's Gobi desert is larger than Peru!
* 300 babies are born every minute in China.
* Almost 800 new cars are sold every hour in China
* China has 64 million vacant homes.
* There are more Christians in China than in Italy!
* Paper, pizza, noodles, and the compass were invented in China,
* China has the second lowest crime rate in the world.
* China is the oldest society & culture in the world.
* China's Great Wall can be seen from space.
* China executes more criminals than all other nations combined.
* China has the largest library in the world - bigger than Yankee Stadium.
* China manufactures 73% of the world's consumer goods.
* 20% of the Chinese population speaks English!
* 22% of Chinese people have traveled abroad at least once.
* There are 40 ethnic groups living in China.
* The Chinese alphabet has over 3,000 characters.
* There are more KFCs in China than America!
* The average Chinese visits a movie theater twice monthly.
* There are 385 televisions channels in China.
* China has 679 5 star hotels - Over 8,954 in all.
* Foreigners earn an average of $52,000 per annum in China.
* The cost of living in China is one-fourth of America.
* A steak dinner in China is about $8.
* 86% of all fake products originate in China.
* Most Chinese girls marry by age 27.
* Chongqing is the fastest growing city in China.
* China has nude beaches.
* There are more sex shops in China than America!
* There are 23,476 schools and 968 universities in China.
* 28% of all foreigners in China, married a Chinese partner!
* Most Chinese lose the virginity by age 21
* Over the last decade the China economy grew faster than Japan's & America's combined.

Also if you are looking for work in China, and you have a 4 year degree and can speak fluent English, be advised the CFTU is looking to hire full and part time administrative staffers, presenters and trainers to assist new teacher arrivals in China. We can help you arrange housing and sponsor your Z Visa. Send your resume and current photo with your brief one page cover letter in strict confidence to CFTUCarreers@ChinaForeignTeacherUnion.org