Hi
I have finished my one year with Cambridge high school Doha the following are the reason I would not recommend for pupils and teacher to join (only go if it is last resort);
• I have never experienced so much bad management in my life; I can write a book on how to not manage a school.
• Head teacher (David Thorpe)has failed off stead in UK and cannot get a job in UK http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/3737481.stm
The staffs do not trust him; once I came to him to ask about an issue, which affected my teaching. I did 6 lessons a day, break duty and bus duty all day therefore no time to go to toilet so I asked him “when I will have time for toilet” he told me “to ask another teacher she knows how to hold it in all day. “
• The Director is an Indian (Shankar -all staff hates him and do not understand how he became director) and his cronies as middle managers and I would not let then run a corner shop forget manage a school. They got no people skills and all they do is monitor and deduct salary of staff for petty reasons. They only care making as much money from staff and pupils as they have shares in profit. All classrooms have camera instead of projectors.
• They advertise 23 pupils a class but there are usually 30 pupils of mixed ability and with no behavior support given are job is to keep pupils busy with no school policy.
• Majority of teachers are not coming back as they have been treated like labors, even in the last day we had wait in a line for to receive our cheque a day before we had to leave. Some cheque even bounced. Staff turnaround is very high they lose 30 teachers a year.
• Education standard is very low as it is easy to admit (no exam) pupils in this school basically any pupil who cannot get place in any other school come here and here they inflate the exam mark so parents do not complain.
I have send the link to management as I want them to improve their standard of education I do not believe it is fair on the learners and the staff and there is many more issue that I can talk about but I do not want to waste too much time talking about this school.
Hi
I have finished my one year with Cambridge high school Doha the following are the reason I would not recommend for pupils and teacher to join (only go if it is last resort);
• I have never experienced so much bad management in my life; I can write a book on how to not manage a school.
• Head teacher (David Thorpe)has failed off stead in UK and cannot get a job in UK
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/3737481.stm
The staffs do not trust him; once I came to him to ask about an issue, which affected my teaching. I did 6 lessons a day, break duty and bus duty all day therefore no time to go to toilet so I asked him “when I will have time for toilet” he told me “to ask another teacher she knows how to hold it in all day. “
• The Director is an Indian (Shankar -all staff hates him and do not understand how he became director) and his cronies as middle managers and I would not let then run a corner shop forget manage a school. They got no people skills and all they do is monitor and deduct salary of staff for petty reasons. They only care making as much money from staff and pupils as they have shares in profit. All classrooms have camera instead of projectors.
• They advertise 23 pupils a class but there are usually 30 pupils of mixed ability and with no behavior support given are job is to keep pupils busy with no school policy.
• Majority of teachers are not coming back as they have been treated like labors, even in the last day we had wait in a line for to receive our cheque a day before we had to leave. Some cheque even bounced. Staff turnaround is very high they lose 30 teachers a year.
• Education standard is very low as it is easy to admit (no exam) pupils in this school basically any pupil who cannot get place in any other school come here and here they inflate the exam mark so parents do not complain.
I have send the link to management as I want them to improve their standard of education I do not believe it is fair on the learners and the staff and there is many more issue that I can talk about but I do not want to waste too much time talking about this school.