Jiangxi Agricultural University -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 63-year-old Jiangxi Agricultural University (JAU) is located in the northern suburbs of Nanchang City (25-minute bus ride from the downtown area, or 15 min by car from the airport). Nanchang is the capital city of Jiangxi Province in Southeast China. JAU is a key province-run university and is one of the first universities in China to confer Bachelor and Master degrees. JAU has 15 colleges and departments. It is has a total of over 12,000 undergraduates and postgraduates at present. It offers 40 specialties for undergraduates with bachelor degrees. About 80% of the students major in non-agricultural specialties. JAU was the first institution to open to foreign countries in Jiangxi Province. It has the qualification of Grade A1 for employing overseas experts. It has received more than 9000 visiting foreign experts, scholars, students and tourists from nearly 100 countries. It has also established friendly and cooperative relationships with other universities and research institutes in the United States of America, Russia, the Philippines, Holland and Japan. JAU has participated in a number of international cooperative projects in scientific researches. Each year, the university sends outstanding teachers and technicians abroad through various channels to give lectures, receive training, study for academic degrees, visit, cooperate in scientific research or attend international symposia. JAU is qualified to enroll foreign students. It has accepted foreign students to study agricultural technology and Chinese. JAU began to hire EFL/ESL teachers from foreign countries in 1984. Since then, JAU has been employing overseas English teachers every year and has successively employed a total of over 30 different English teachers so far. Most of them have been from USA working here for two or three years. They have established good cooperation and close friendship with the teachers and students and the International Exchange Office. Most overseas teachers enjoyed their stay here and did very successful jobs. Some of them won prizes from the university, the province and even the state government. One of the teachers did such a good job that he won the National Friendship Award in 1999 and attended a reception by Premier Zhu Rongji. II. TEFL program details The teachers employed are arranged to teach classes of speaking, listening, reading, writing, business English, Western culture, and English literature to students of English and business English majors mainly in the Foreign Languages Department and to the postgraduates of various specialties from all over JAU. The ages of the English major students range between 17 and 25, of whom about 75% are female. For each classroom, there are about 45 students. The total required teaching load is no more than 20 periods (40 min for each period) a week on the average. A national cooperative teacher is assigned to each foreign teacher. There are multimedia listening labs available for teaching. Though we recommend and provide textbooks for both teachers and students, international teachers can choose and use their own teaching materials and methods when conducting the classes. However, teachers need to teach the classes in a way that is relevant to the designated courses. III. Requirements for overseas teachers Every academic year starting from September, at least four teachers of English are to be employed. (For this ad onlyC starting from September 1, 2004, there will be 5 vacancies available. Applicants are expected to sign a contract for two semesters, i.e. from September 1, 2004, to June 30, 2005.) The teacher to hold the post should be native speaker of English (English being his mother tongue or first language) from USA, UK, Canada or Australia and have a bachelor degree (preferably with a TEFL/TESL certificate) at least. The candidate age should be between 21 and 65. It is our belief that students need to be exposed to different varieties of the English language. So we are more likely to recruit the applicant who comes from a different country than those of the current teachers. Above all, we need teachers who are interested in Chinese culture, friendly with people and devoted to teaching. Applications to JAU are accepted at any time before the new semester begins if positions are still open, but preferably at least two months in advance so applicants will have more opportunities for having the job and enough time to go through the procedures. It is often true that the early bird catches the worm. IV. Administration The International Exchange Office (IEO) is the university official agent for foreign teacher employment. IEO approves and then submits the application materials to the Jiangxi Provincial Government for its final approval. IEO is responsible for the signing of contracts with international teachers to be employed, paying salaries and other costs specified in the contract, and providing housing and other living facilities. The Foreign Languages Department is in charge of teaching arrangements for both international teachers and domestic teachers. In a word, the Foreign Languages Department may choose international teachers academically and recommend them to IEO. Then IEO makes its decision of hiring the teachers and gives its approval. When you have received the invitation letter issued by the Provincial Government Foreign Affairs Office, sent via JAU IEO, you can apply for your visa at the Chinese Embassy or a Chinese consulate near where you are. To apply for a position with JAU, you can send your materials by email to both Foreign Languages Department and IEO, but it is advisable to send the formal mail package (paper documents) to IEO. V. Materials needed for application procedure After you have first given us your information by email and both parties have the employment intent, you are required to send us the following paper documents by regular mail (preferably via express mail service): 1. Two recommendation letters by different experts or professors; 2. The copies of your passport, marriage certificate if you are married, your degree and diploma; 3. A resume; 4. Please go to Chinese Consulate in your country to get Physical Examination Record for Foreigner and do the form at a public hospital. If you do it at a private hospital, you need to get it notarized. Then please mail the form. Also, we need the attached test reports of AIDS, syphilis, the chart of ECG and X-ray film. (Presuming upon your good health, you can do medical examination here in China if you find it inconvenient or more expensive to get it done in your own country. The cost for the required medical examination here is no more than US$50. Please beware that if there should be any forbidden medical problem revealed by the medical examination, your employment offer would be revoked, in which case JAU is not liable to pay the applicant any compensations.) Please remember that once JAU (The Foreign Language Department or The International Exchange Office) has agreed to accept the candidate as its prospective employee, JAU always keeps its promise, unless the candidate is unable to send the required documents in time to show that the candidate is both academically and physically qualified as he or she has initially informed JAU via email. In return, candidates are strongly requested by JAU not to take job offers rashly and not to change their decisions once they are made. VI. Salaries, benefits, facilities and services available The monthly salary is negotiable depending on the applicant: 1) major (preferably English language-related)c 2) education (degree or certificate) 3) teaching experience, with a range of between RMB 4,000yuan and 4,500yuan for bachelor degrees and master degrees (The average monthly cost for food will be about 400 yuan for each person). (US$1 is about RMB$8.21). On top of the salary, we also provide a monthly subsidy of RMB$200 for electricity and water, an annual travel allowance of RMB$2000, and the same medical coverage as the national teachers. When you come and leave China, we will pay all your travel expenses including baggage shipment within China mainland, and round international flight ticket when you leave China at the end of the second semester. Arrangements will be made for you to be met and picked up at Nanchang Airport or railway station. That is to say, JAU reimburses all the expenses needed for your trip, including hotel accommodations within China mainland on your trip. Paid holidays include Saturdays, Sundays, May Day Holidays (3 days), National Day Holidays (3 days), New Year s Day and winter holidays (about a month). Your contracted work term last from September through June the following year (10 months in total). Depending on the size of the family, JAU will provide a newly completed apartment with a living room, two or three bedrooms, a dining-room, a kitchen, one or two bathrooms and two or three balconies. Our apartments for foreign teachers are currently the best for international teachers in all the universities in Jiangxi Province. Teachers with children will not feel crowded at the apartments. The apartment is furnished with sleeping facilities, TV, telephone (bill paid by the teacher using the phone), refrigerator, air-conditioner, washer, water heater, and kitchen utensils. Rent is free. You need to pay for your water and electricity, but we provide each teacher with 200 yuan a month for these utilities no matter how much water and electricity you may use (The average household on campus pays less than 100 yuan a month for electricity.) The apartments are in a compound exclusively for foreign teachers on the campus. There are stores on campus where you can get almost all the daily necessities. There is also a bank, a post office, a hospital, barbershops, tailor shops, dinning halls, restaurants and grocery free market. With green trees, beautiful flowers and singing birds, the campus may be the most beautiful of all the universities in Nanchang area. The university has a preschool (kindergarten) and an affiliated primary school and a middle school on campus, which are also open to the children of overseas teachers. VII. Contact information Applicants are required to make constant contacts with JAU after the applicants and JAU have established an initial contact if they want to go on with the application procedures. On the JAU side, after the initial contact, JAU must not refuse to give response to the applicant whether it will accept or decline the application. If applicant is unable to get response from the JAU side, it means there is some problem in the connection, in which case the applicant should try again or contact JAU in other ways. Applicants are required to inform JAU if they do not want to go on with the procedure. JAU loss of contacts from applicants for a certain period of time (over about a week) can be tacitly taken as the refusal of applicants to accept the positions, and JAU can not guarantee the positions for them. Questions concerning such matters as salary, housing, travel, medicare are to be sent and will be answered by IEO. Issues about teaching arrangement, students, materials are under the charge of the Foreign Languages Department. It is advisable to send questions to the relevant party. You may use the following addresses for exchanging information: Address of Chief of International Exchange Office: Mrs. Zhu Xiaoyu International Exchange Office Jiangxi Agricultural University Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330045 China Fax: 86 791 3814107 E-mail:
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