International school's expansion prompts global search for teachers
If teaching young children brings a smile to your face, then perhaps working for a fast-expanding mainland kindergarten will be an appealing career move. Etonkids International School, an international bilingual kindergarten, is about to open six more schools for its autumn 2008 school year and is in urgent need of passionate employees.
Headquartered in Beijing, the school has branches in Tianjin, Nanjing and Shanghai, and will open more schools in these locations. The expansion to 12 schools this year comes in the wake of strong growth and demand for quality kindergarten education on the mainland, according to Etonkids' managing director Vivien Wang.
'The strong growth of Etonkids has provided an opportunity to improve the quality of education, not just at Etonkids, but at kindergartens throughout China,' she said.
Economies of scale have also allowed the school to improve its educational curricula, increase teacher pay, launch transitional education programmes and establish Beijing's indigenous accredited Montessori teacher training programme.
Ms Wang said that lower administrative overheads per student would then translate to more resources dedicated to where it counted most - in the classroom.