Located in Chenzhou, Hunan province, XiangnanUniversity is a public unversity specializing in teachers training and medical science. It consists of 18 departments which offer over degrees in 46 majors covering fields such as art, science, medicine, economics, management, law and so on. It has an enrollment of 15000 full time students. The university has a teaching faculty of 1470 with library book collection of 650,000 volumes.

About Chenzhou city:

Chenzhou, located in the south of Hunan, near to Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, is one of the top tourist cities of China, and is known as the south gate of Hunan and the “Backyard Garden” of Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. It has a total population of 4.56million and convenient transportions such as the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway, Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, National Highway 106 and 107. With over 2000 year’s history, Chenzhou is rich in natural resources. It enjoys such reputations as “Hometown of Nonferrous Metals”, “World Museum of Nonferrous Metals”,“SilverCity in China”, “Major Forest Region in Southern China” and “Energy Base for Hunan”. Chenzhou is an ecological kingdom, with abundant tourist resources. Chenzhou is a fast developing tourist city, also a charming and open city.

XiangnanUniversity is searching for 10 English Teachers to start teaching from Sept 1, 2006.

Job description:

• Courses to teach: oral English, writing, British&American literature, British & American general survey etc.
• Contract period: Sept 1st,2006—July 30th, 2007 and renewable based on mutual interests.
• 16 class hours per week(45 minutes per class hour), if extra class hours are needed, you will be paid at 50RMB yuan per class hour

Benefits:

• Monthly salary(RMB):3500—4500(tax levied when over 4000)
• Travel allowance: (RMB):2200 on completion of the contract
• Free furnished housing (private), facilitated with air conditioner, internet access, TV, DVD player, refrigerator, water heater and cooking utensils, everyday furniture
• Monthly telephone allowance(RMB): 100
• Free round trip airfare(currently outside China) or one way trip airfare(currently in China)
• Safe insurance

Successful candidates should have

• At least a Bachelor’s Degree in any majors of linguistics, literature and education;
• Qualification of one of the followings: TESOL, TEFL, ESL;
• Minimum two years of working experiences in teaching;
• Native English speaker or couples proficiency.