How about those joint-venture universities?

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Re: How about those joint-venture universities?
« Reply #15 on: November 13, 2009, 12:00:07 AM »
MSU also has one from Singapore, too. :)

Salary is better than average, yes.  Other things like round trip plane ticket and an apartment are included, too.  

Cheating is a problem here but it's a problem everywhere. It just comes out in different ways here.  Since I teach at multiple American schools online, I'm dealing with questions of academic integrity all of the time.  For my class here in China, plagiarism is by far a greater problem than, say, cheating on tests.  This is because public speaking is less test based and more script/speech based.

Some of the problem is the cultural difference in terms of what is expected during the citation process.  Even though I grill my students on American standards of citation, I still run into issues.  I use Blackboard to stay paperless and they all submit their scripts right into Turn It In first - for them to see.  I expect them to catch plagiarism and then deal with it by citing or they face punishment.  Even with the "clear" expectations, it still happens.  But again, it happens everywhere, too.  (Look at America's VP who several years back ran for President in the primaries and dropped out after he was caught plagiarizing a British politician in a speech...)

All told, the good news is that when dealing with the cheating MSU treats it very seriously.  This means instructors have some "teeth" to address the problems.  

Re: How about those joint-venture universities?
« Reply #16 on: November 13, 2009, 04:06:28 AM »
Some of the teachers/students at my school have parents/spouses working at Nottingham and it seems fairly good.  Their introductory package for foreign teachers sounded better than ours (but we are a much smaller school).  Although you would have to live in Ningbo... awawawawaw

Interesting to read that students are still cheating at that level.  I am at the other end of the educational spectrum and still trying to get my head around students (mostly Korean although I'm in China) who INSIST on calling out and spoiling games (i.e. blind man's bluff type stuff they will ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS shout out who I gave the toy to and completely ruin the game.  It is driving me  llllllllll

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Re: How about those joint-venture universities?
« Reply #17 on: March 27, 2010, 06:29:52 AM »
As a little bump/update: XJTLU has closed (March 15...last year applications closed in mid-April, so I missed this one). Ningbo currently has vacancies listed, and both Missouri and Sino-British say they're hiring.

I plan to have my applications out the door for next week. What a relief it will be to have them sent off!