This is not a regulation (if really put into place) to raise quality. It's to more easily deport foreigners. i guess, the gov. saw how easy it is to get a visa to western countries, how nicely they are treated and finding work there, -that they thought....why not repaying this with the good old chinese way on f*cking with the foreign devil. lol
It will never be enforced, the demand for foreign teachers is far too high to really give a damn about it. or it will be enforced for about 6 month until the owners of EF GREAT edu., NEW ORIENTAL etc. will talk to their gov buddies on the next KTV/ BUFFET meeting... to make sure that they get enough guanxi to go around the law again.
or an important party member's daughter lost her favourite teacher and everything goes back to normal.
there were those new regulation from time to time, just to be canned a few month later. like 2008 Olympic....visa stop for all expats residing in china....thanks to GREAT EDU, that changed while still in progress....
but i love, that the REAL TEACHER who were pointing fingers at others, right here on this platform, because they don't have a college degree or other certifications, whilst these guys were having a teaching unrelated college degree, that made them soooooo qualified to teach!!!!!!! lol
i wonder what their argument is, now.
china has an issue with it's own idea of it's grandieur. what real teacher will choose china? no career chances, shitty pay, no or little benefits, no management skills of superiours, absolutely no or useless training, a messed up, ridiculous education system.
any real career teacher will try a few years at a university in china and move on to a real country where you work actually matters. after seeing this moronic thing called teaching in china.
plus, china is putting up much higher standards than the rest if the world.
as a subject teacher for a private school....or training center,-in most european countries, you don't need a lot of paperwork. any pedagogy certificate proving that you know what you are doing, and proof that you know your subject....thats about it.
last.... most chinese teachers make enough money for a dumb job, or if they are worth it make the same as FT.
my wife hired a girl who was a teacher, doing homework and test prep classes. She made about 5000RMB plus benefits. for a few hours a week.
damn! our security guard in our xiaoqu makes 4000RMB,sitting around, with only one qualification, chain smoking...especially in the elevator.
the best teacher i have ever seen,... Candy, anf despite the stripper name -makes 240RMB per hour, excluding the pay she gets for class prep....and she is damn worth three times as much.
So i agree that local teachers can do.the job. And they probably should because they understand the dynamics of crazy in the education field. the problem is that most customers and school managers want foreign experts, asking for advise- to.ignore it. otherwise they wouldn't know how to get their mianzi and bloated selfesteem in balance with their incompetence.