₦airaland Forum

eben97:
PARENTS have trulyfailed GOD O!how should children he gave them to manage suddenly become d managers of d parents in reverse?

TobiAbuja:
Several alarm bells ringing here. Firstly Luton is a majority Asian town, you'll be hard pressed to find any white kids let alone any who risk being racist in such a town.

Secondly, let alone a white kid? So this 'person' went into a UK teaching job with such racial prejudices? I just don't believe it.

Thirdly, his first action on his first day was to the head teachers office? Are you for real? No wonder the school lost confidence in him.

Add lastly, 2003 How are we to take this seriously when there is a 20 year old anecdote? Any idea how much countries change over such a time?

Uzomah originally from Nigeria just completed a PhD at the University of Salford, and was teaching three days a week at Dixon Kings Academy, a mixed-sex free school in Bradford, West Yorkshire when the event happened.

Uzomah recalled he prepared a final message to his wife and three children as he thought he was dying as he laid bleeding on the classroom floor.

The boy, of Asian origin, had racially abused Mr Uzomah, who is black, before stabbing him with a knife he had taken into school after a row about him using his mobile phone.

spiritedtete:
My kid school fees for grade 2 is 13000 usd and I have 2 of them in same school... so I am well able to sue if the school messes up

Creativity22:
You will pay tax, feeding, house rent and other bills from the £2300

chloedogie:
You know if evidence of age is part of registration on nairaland, 3/4 will be disqualified from here. They are kids maybe in 200l studying library science and feel they have say on every topic. Some of them can't even boast of travelling up to four states within the country but can tell you what's going on in Australia.

The annoying part is they have very myopic opinions with no element of sense in it. I can never try teaching in the Western country. Even when I did in Nigeria, it was hell as shit. Give it to teachers what they go through daily, na only God fit compensate them.

naturalwaves:
That is before tax. After tax , what would you be left with? After paying for your accomodation, what would you be left with and then bills too. A shared apartment can even cost as much as 700k a month . Something like a self con can cost as high as 1M to 1.2M a month. Teachers are generally poorly remunerated worldwide. In my opinion, the offer is trash.

chloedogie:
Lol. . You've jumped from UK to yanke. You lived in European counties and Australia now America has entered. Have a great day.

Naijiriana:
…Sweetheart? Lmao, you go just land for jail one time.

girlygirlyMain:
Unless you've never lived in the UK,
"Sweetheart" na national slang...
You go buy coffee, *do you want some cream in there sweetheart?"
You wan buy train ticket, "what plan do you want sweetheart?"
It's used everywhere in the UK...

jchioma:
Exactly, the system is mad and sad at the same time. Imagine, with no just recourse to the teacher, their feelings are not considered. It's unfortunate when teachers don't get the respect and due recognition they deserve.

girlygirlyMain:
Unless you've never lived in the UK,
"Sweetheart" na national slang...
You go buy coffee, *do you want some cream in there sweetheart?"
You wan buy train ticket, "what plan do you want sweetheart?"
It's used everywhere in the UK...

Calling a female work colleague 'love' is demeaning, a tribunal has ruled.

Using pet names like 'sweetie' or 'babes' is condescending and could be considered talking down to women as if they were children, a judge said.

The ruling came in the case of funeral home manager Mike Hartley who was fired after being accused of making inappropriate remarks to women at work.

spiritedtete:
"Lived"

UK is the least place I want to come back to live. The only thing I consider is my Son ability and interest in football. That's only reason I am worried of not living in the UK for. Lol

Evilstorm:
This has nothing to do with colonialism, our culture and traditions are different. A Chinese or Japanese would find the attitude of those students shocking. Do you know that in Japan, pupils are only taught on manners, respect and self discipline? They are mandated to clean their class room and to perform other non related formal educational activities in their childhood and the result has brought about one of the most organize set of citizens in the world. I'm sure you've heard about their exceptional conduct at Qatar during the world cup. This achievement boils down to their good educational system and it should be the one Africans should emulate. The western world is going crazy and we should not go down with them by copying and pasting.

obedience4:
Fake , there is no way ° a difference between a monkey and a black man will be on a UK school board

Lies lies lies

obedience4:
Fake , there is no way ° a difference between a monkey and a black man will be on a UK school board

Lies lies lies

Talawaka:
You are right, Luton has some pretty shitty schools.
As someone who has been an insider, I am largely in agreement with what you have written here.

Still, I think anyone contemplating a teaching career in the UK needs to come prepared.
I have counselled not a few broken souls whose mental health was shot, after a stint in the profession, during my time.

naturalwaves:
That is before tax. After tax , what would you be left with? After paying for your accomodation, what would you be left with and then bills too. A shared apartment can even cost as much as 700k a month . Something like a self con can cost as high as 1M to 1.2M a month. Teachers are generally poorly remunerated worldwide. In my opinion, the offer is trash.

uchman:
Let's say £1k for monthly expenses.
£1300 is 100% better when compared to Nija

SIRTee15:
You can work as bank just like nurses and doctors. Generally, regular salary is poor in UK public sector. You augment your wages with locum or ubgo full locum.
I want to believe most of u guys talking negative don't live in UK and really don't understand the system.
Being a teacher in UK if 100 times far better than in Nigeria.
You can even from UK move to Dubai or Australia where the pay is better once u established in the teaching career.

IyaTola:
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A TEACHER IN THE UK?

Being a teacher in the UK is a horrible experience — it is a taste of hell.
I was a teacher in Zimbabwe for over 10 years.

I loved my work; I remember assemblies where children would greet us in chorus.
I was proud to be a teacher.

Our students would salute and greet us on the streets, showing us respect.
A misbehaving pupil would hide, show remorse on being found out.

The day I left for the UK, I was excited and convinced that I would make an impact as a teacher in the land of the Queen.

According to Mhofu from Luton, teaching in the UK is no walk in the park.
Mhofu: “You know, if it wasn’t for teaching, I probably wouldn’t have travelled as much as I did. It was the teaching that got me around the world. But here in the UK, I got a rude awakening.

I got a teaching job at a school in Luton which was touted to be one of the best schools. I was grateful and overjoyed. On my first day in class the children looked at me as if they were seeing a ghost. One child raised his hand and said to me: ‘Are you an idiot’.
I was shocked; I was a teacher.

I looked at the child and wanted to hit him but I had been warned never to touch a child or I would die in prison. I pretended I had not heard the child then I heard another say: ‘Hey, are you deaf?’ I was so angry and I walked out to make a complaint to the teacher-in -charge. As I stepped out, the classroom broke into uncontrollable laughter. I had never been insulted by a child and let alone a white one. I was so angry l started shaking.

I walked into the teacher-in-charge’s office. He looked at me and said go and control your class first. I walked back in the class and everything that followed made me sick to my gut. I just had to leave the classroom as l did not trust myself not to take my typical ‘teacher action’ against these wayward children. I went home.

I got a call from the school which informed me that I had been fired because I had no confidence and skills of dealing with children.
I then got another job as a teacher. This time, I was called a ‘supply teacher’ who is equivalent to a temporary teacher. The only difference is a supply teacher is a qualified teacher.

I arrived at the school, this time determined to bring some order. As I walked into the classroom, I saw, on the green board, an offensive statement. It was a question: ‘What’s the difference between a monkey and a blackman?’

Just below it was an answer: ‘At least a monkey can climb trees.’ When I asked who wrote that in a very angry voice, the class remained silent.

I turned to the board to rub the offending statement. When I was done and turned to the class, I saw my bag fly out of the window.
I got angry and shouted at the class. The head-teacher and a few other teachers rushed to the class. The pupils all rushed to one corner and on seeing the headmaster, they started screaming.

The headmaster, in front of the children told me I was intimidating the kids and making the learning environment a war zone. I told him they had thrown my bag out of the window and had written racist remarks on the board.

The head-teacher said he could see nothing on the board and the kids shouted that they had thrown it out after I had tried to hit them with it. I was asked to go home and reflect on my teaching skills.

The classroom is controlled by children; you must do what they want and you must not dictate to them. The head takes the word of the child against yours. Now I am working towards extracting myself from a career I was passionate about and I ask myself why?

Those who are thinking of teaching here must brace themselves for a torrid time.” According to Paul Taruvinga: I had my interview with a teaching agency in the UK before I finished University.

I was accepted and so when I arrived in London in 2003 on my UK working holiday visa, I was ready to start my teaching career in Hackney, East London, an area I was soon to discover to be one of London’s most challenging.

I wasn’t quite ready to settle into a full time job so I went straight for the supply (casual, substitute) teaching. This meant I was running all over the East End, going to different schools every day. It was a great way for me to get to know the city.

It was also a fantastic way for me to learn how to be an adaptable teacher – different students, different classes every day.

One day I was called to the headmaster’s office; I was informed that a child had complained that I speak so loud that the child is now having sleepless nights. I was asked to lower my voice or I would be sued if the child went deaf.

I am not a loud speaker; I was shocked. I could not answer. Then one day I was accused of sexual abuse. I was alleged to have touched a girl-child on the shoulder. I was told any form of touching was abuse. I was suspended.

After three months of no pay, I was reinstated. I now hate teaching with a passion.”

John Dickson: “l was reprimanded for calling a child ‘my son’. When I came to school the following day there was a fuming parent who said to me: ‘Hey, my son has a father at this school now!’

I said I didn’t know about that and then she accused me of calling him ‘my son’ the previous day in class. I went numb.

She went to the head and I was seriously admonished.” The culture here is so strange. There is nothing like stopping students from throwing chairs at each other. The schools here are a complete opposite of the schools back home. Teaching is a nightmare here.
It is the most stressful job in the UK.

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Agbadocassava:
You don’t need to go anywhere when Tinubu becomes the president, he values education and gives teachers priority.

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advanceDNA:
Advise...if u are teacher and intersted..apply if u wish to migrate..

Parachoko:
I go slap any student wey ask me this kin foolish question

I no fit teach in Nigeria or the UK, I no dey take nonsense from anybody, not to talk of kids

Wawelexy:
Lol.... Are you an idiot?

Funny enough, some schools here in Nigeria are already following this pattern... some private school pupils see their teachers as trash, imagine a male student in senior school 2 trying to woo a teacher and the school authorities doing nothing to reprimand such pupil..

Nigeria and their copycat syndrome...

tishbite42:
How much everything go cost.
Can someone who studied Microbiology apply?

iHateFraudsters:
Discouragement?

The same OP just told you that the opportunity will be open to Nigerians in February.

The same OP just told you that you should prepare for ielts, get ready money for tb test and police report.

How is that discouraging?

Someone is trying to prepare you guys for a different type of life and you're here yarning dust.

Typical Nigerian mentality.

drlateef:
This write up is very correct. Nigerian teachers who are dusting their passports for February migration to UK must read this and assure themselves they are ready for the battle. The UK teachers themselves have lost it and retiring from the profession. Based on my experience, if you are still bent on moving to UK, i will suggest you look for work in year 1-6 groups (primary schools) or private schools. Those are slightly better groups.