Teacher Experience Question
Jul 14th 2017, 5:12 am
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Re: Teacher Experience Question
When the time comes to leave the Middle East do your best to get police clearance - the equivalent of disclosure to use in any applications you make to teach or work with children and young adults beck in UK or wherever you settle. This is a lot easier doen when you are in-country.
Jul 14th 2017, 10:51 am
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Re: Teacher Experience Question
When the time comes to leave the Middle East do your best to get police clearance - the equivalent of disclosure to use in any applications you make to teach or work with children and young adults beck in UK or wherever you settle. This is a lot easier doen when you are in-country.
Scot47, that is excellent advice that most people overlook, to their regret.
You can get one once you've left, but if you go through the embassy as you are technically supposed to, it can take months and months and is very expensive. If you have contact on the ground, they can go in person and get it for you with just a copy of your passport, visa and old residence card (I have gone that route). Even the embassy will tell you to try and do that before you go through them!
Jul 14th 2017, 10:57 am
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Re: Teacher Experience Question
JCoop, one other bit of info from your earlier thread, that you will need to understand once you are there - ADEC is not the Abu Dhabi branch of the UAE Ministry of Education. The UAE MoE has no authority in Abu Dhabi. ADEC runs the show in Abu Dhabi and is the regulator and total education provider there. Private schools in Abu Dhabi report, answer to and are regulated by ADEC, not the Ministry of Education. The UAE Crown Prince is ADEC's chairperson, and the ADEC Director General is in his ruling council.
ADEC also has the right to open and operate schools in other Emirates, under ADEC rules and regulations rather than MoE ones, and does operate a small number of Cycle 1 (primary) schools in the Northern Emirates.
So . . . with ADEC, nobody is going to "make them comply" with anything. They are the ones who force the complying, they write the rules, and they can blow off the rules if they want as they are the ones who write them.
Once you get to Abu Dhabi, despite ADEC's over-arching scope, if you say "I work for ADEC" it is near-universally understood that you work for the government schools sector.
This does not impact your wife's situation however, as "ADEC recruiting" requiring two year experience is for the government schools, not the private schools, who generally are allowed (to most extents) to hire as they want and there is no mandated experience requirement for them.
ADEC also has the right to open and operate schools in other Emirates, under ADEC rules and regulations rather than MoE ones, and does operate a small number of Cycle 1 (primary) schools in the Northern Emirates.
So . . . with ADEC, nobody is going to "make them comply" with anything. They are the ones who force the complying, they write the rules, and they can blow off the rules if they want as they are the ones who write them.
Once you get to Abu Dhabi, despite ADEC's over-arching scope, if you say "I work for ADEC" it is near-universally understood that you work for the government schools sector.
This does not impact your wife's situation however, as "ADEC recruiting" requiring two year experience is for the government schools, not the private schools, who generally are allowed (to most extents) to hire as they want and there is no mandated experience requirement for them.
