Among the sixteen administrative divisions in the country, Jeollanam-do has the
fewest number of native speaker English teachers in public schools with 158. There are 14,873 in the country, with 5,786 in Seoul, according to that Yonhap piece. There are 333 in Gwangju, 50 in Suncheon, 44 in Yeosu, and 31 in Mokpo, according to the article.
It also says that ten out of the twenty-two cities and counties in Jeollanam-do do not have a native speaker English teacher
in the public schools.
This article says Damyang, Jangseong, Gurye, Boseong, Gangjin, Hampyeong, Shinan, Wando, and Gokseong don't have native speaker English teachers, while the Yonhap piece says Naju is doing without. I'm not really sure where they're getting those facts, because I know teachers in several of those counties.
* Update: In English now,
in the Korea Herald. It's talking about all native speaker English teachers, in both public schools and hagwon. Curious, though, why they said 10 out of the 22 divisions in Jeollanam-do were without.
8 comments:
Yeah, Brian, none of those facts are correct. I know the exact number of public school EPIK teachers in the city of Gwangju and it is 123. There are a couple other teachers in public school programs through programs like the Fullbright Scholarship... but I do not know where the other 150 teachers come from or where they teach. Every EPIK teacher in Gwangju teachers at two public schools and there is only one teacher at each school. There is definitely not 666 public schools in this city.
Another note, Jeollanam-do probably does have the least, and if you look at the invite for the EPIK new hires for next March, Jeollanam and Jeollabuk's combined placement quota is only 5 new teachers. So I have no idea what they doing in these provinces.
http://roksojourn.blogspot.com/2009/10/march-2010-epik-positions-announced.html
Are you sure they didn't mean (or you didn't mean) just native english teachers (public and private combined)?
Those numbers would make more sense if that were all E-2 visa holders.
Yeah, it could be hagwon and public schools combined. Also, sometimes they refer to native speaker assistant teachers, and other times simply foreign native speaker teachers, so I'm not sure if that's also including Chinese and Japanese teachers.
Thing is, a couple years ago the idea was to get NSETs out of public schools and into English Towns. Originally I was hired to teach in Gangjin's English Town, but the opening was delayed for 18 months so I was stuck at a few elementary schools where they often told me they didn't want me there. I guess things changed and the prevailing tendency now is to get a native speaker for every school, but it doesn't seem like they're clear on what they want.
Personally I think the days of NSETs in every public school are numbered, but we'll see.
The article says teachers registered with the local office of education, so I suppose that includes hagwon teachers too, right?
Well, judging by the amount of foreign teachers show up at my shop in Gwangju I would guess those numbers are right the fuck out of tune.
there are def more than 44 in yeosu! i think we have about 100 between public and private. with about 60 being public.
There are definitely teachers in Wando and Hampyeong! I know a couple folks in both, all in the public sector.
I always thought the native english teacher numbers hovered around the 22,000. Im surprised its so low.
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