Teachers/examiners with less skills than pupils/examinees

Trevor @ Tuesday October 3rd 2006 11:40

Story in Trouw about a German teacher who can’t speak German. This wouldn’t be so freaky in jobs-for-the-boys Spain, where the most important requirement of a foreign language teacher in the public sector is that they have a bagful of certificates in the local languages. The result is that most foreign language teachers aren’t very good, and that parents need to fork out for private tuition. An excellent and experienced English teacher I know who works for the military recently took the state English exam in order to avoid problems with the crats. At the end the examiners asked him how they’d done.


Categories: Les bourgeois, Splog

« · »

RSS: post comments, blog comments, blog posts

You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Share this post
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google Bookmarks
  • LinkedIn
  • Live
  • Ma.gnolia
  • Meneame
  • MySpace
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
See also
    • This feature doesn't work without post tags, and there don't seem to be any for this post.
    • This feature doesn't work without post tags, and there don't seem to be any for this post.
Google Reader

I share other stuff over here.

Pordiosería

If you're feeling generous, check out my Amazon wishlists for Deutschland, France , and the UK, or use PayPal to

My 5% bookstore - new stuff



Spanish history

Modern Spanish fiction

Spanish classics

On this day

Barcelona

Josep Pla, Palafrugell (1918-9)

  • 13 de març de 1919 La Mancomunitat ha creat uns «Estudis Normals» i Joan Climent m’incita a inscriure-m’hi. Els cursos es donaran a l’Escola Industrial. La cosa, en realitat –ésser mestre, Ă©sser professor–, em sembla una mica estranya. ÂżAcabarĂ© de professor d’alguna cosa, a Canet de Mar, a PuigcerdĂ  o a Valls? Però Climent insisteix i això m’intranquil·litza una mica. Què [...]

The peepul's choice

Back to top