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Name of School: Caledonian School
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(9 votes, average: 2 out of 5)
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5 Comments Received
June 27th, 2008 @2:31 am
I worked for them for 4 months while they were ‘processing’ my visa. The entire time they deducted social and health insurance fees from my salary (and ‘tax’) and yet they had never started the visa process. When I discovered I had no visa after 90 days and actually no work permit or anything, I jumped ship on them.
March 15th, 2008 @5:05 pm
any comments about the preschool - Nessie?
January 21st, 2008 @4:11 pm
Just to clarify the pay at Caledonian: 200-225 kc per 45 minute lesson. Average lessons per week are 20-26. They do pay for %50 of the visa and cover your medical bills. It’s actually a good school but the posters above must have had a bad experience.
December 20th, 2007 @6:29 am
WARNING - BEWARE: The government of the Czech Republic starting 1 January 2008 will be clamping down Hard (arrests, massive fines, deportation from the Entire European Union and possible prison)for non EU teachers/workers working on a Tourist Visa. The arrest have already started and are well publicized in Prague, CZ.
No school can promise you a Legal job, unless you already have both a CZ Residence Permit and the proper working papers, which now must be obtained from outside the Czech Republic and may take up to one year to obtain!
Till then, you may be working illegally if working on a tourist visa. A major continuing problem for the many Czech language schools, so check with your embassy for the correct information for your country of citizenship.
Currently (2008), the Caledonian School TEFL Certificate and TEFL Course: ARE NOT Accredited by any government or accredited academic institution! Do Not be fooled by such ‘Advert Speak’ as ‘Recognized’ which means nothing academically and maybe Nothing to possible future employers either. ‘In cooperation with’ may well mean that all they do is buy some books, etc. from certain companies.
In the TEFL world today, most employers are not hiring teachers unless their TEFL certificates are from a properly Accredited and Anglophile institution. Maybe a lot of money for a perhaps useless piece of paper.
Current pay for new teachers at this school (2008) range from 160 - 195 Czech Crowns per hour. As a teacher the rule of thumb is to figure 1 hour of preparation time for every class hour worked and twice that for writing classes.
Many teachers are paying 6 -10,000 kc per month to Share an apartment with 3-5 other teachers. The Cost of Living in Prague is swiftly climbing to EU norms. Check out apartment prices on http://www.expats.cz and see for yourself.
December 3rd, 2007 @6:11 am
ref to other comment
Comments on rate of pay and computer problems are fair, however:
It is very easy to get 15-35 hours a week. You just show you are willing to accept what is offered to you.
Benefits are poor - no true health insurance, poor sick pay, limited paid vacation, low chance of hours during the summer months.
However, paid travel pass, and your rent is deducted from your taxable income.
Excellent library resources, fairly well equipped classrooms.
Teaching staff consist of a mixture of patient, honest and professional teachers, together with the usual group of naive, lazy, off-to-see-Europe expats.
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