So, so Dieter, was ist denn mit den 3.000 Filipino Lehrern passiert, denen man im August 2020 die Einreise nach Thailand erlaubte ???
Die Problematik ist vielschichtig
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Filipino teachers set to return to Thailand
Government announcement met with xenophobic pushback in some quarters
UCA News reporter, Bangkok
Updated:
August 13, 2020 04:50 AM GMT
Thai authorities have announced that more than 3,000 foreign teachers,
most of whom are Catholics from the Philippines,
will be allowed to re-enter the country as authorities continue to ease border restrictions on foreign workers from across Southeast Asia.
“They are teachers who had previously taught in Thailand but [have been] unable to return to Thailand,” a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
An estimated 18,000 Filipinos work in Thailand, according to the Philippine embassy in Bangkok, with many of them teaching in schools, working in hospitals or working as salespeople in shops.
Filipinos are widely prized for their superior English-language skills in Thailand, where English remains little understood and spoken by most locals despite years of learning it in school.
Many Filipinos decide to work in Thailand because they can earn relatively high wages and send some of their earnings back home to help their families.
However, there has been some pushback in Thailand against letting people from countries like the Philippines enter the kingdom.
Thailand has been held up as a success story in fighting Covid-19 with fewer than 3,300 confirmed cases of the disease and 58 deaths. However, infections have been soaring in the Philippines with 144,000 recorded cases and over 2,400 deaths.
A prominent daily newspaper,
Thai Rath, responded to the news that the first batch of the some 3,000 Filipinos allowed to re-enter Thailand arrived this week with a controversial headline,
“165 Filipino teachers have just arrived in Thailand from the land of Covid-19.”
The Philippine embassy in Bangkok took issue with the headline, expressing “deep dissatisfaction” with its implied message.
“The characterization is inappropriate, insensitive and unhelpful at a time when all of us, brothers and sisters in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), are closely cooperating to deal with the new and unforeseen challenges brought about by the coronavirus,” the embassy said in an open letter.
Thai officials hastened to reassure the public by saying that all arrivals from the predominantly Catholic nation will be screened before they can enter to resume their work in Thailand.
“Please rest assured that although the outbreak situation in the Philippines is severe, everyone will be thoroughly screened,” a government spokesman said.
Many Thais have expressed support for the Filipino teachers by condemning other Thais with overt xenophobic attitudes. “Ignorance is an ugly beast,” one commenter noted on social media.
A degree of weariness against foreigners has been evident in recent weeks in Thailand, where some locals suspect them of being potential carriers of the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19.
Last week the organizers of Midnight Marathon Bangkok 2020 announced that they would bar foreign nationals from participating in the upcoming sporting event, including those that have been staying in the country since before the pandemic.
However, they have since backed down in the face of widespread outrage, issuing a statement of apology. “Offending [the foreign expat] community is the last thing we wanted to do,” said Boonperm Intanapasat, director of the event. “We love athletes of all nationalities.”
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A tough lesson for Thailand’s English teachers
Life is not easy for Filipinos and others trying to teach Thais how to speak English
By
EUNICE BARBARA C NOVIO
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Thanks to social media, the incident at the school was highlighted because it involved a foreign teacher, a Filipino. The teacher denied the allegations.
He was charged with teaching without a work permit, an offense under Section 51 of the Aliens Act of Thailand, which is punishable either with imprisonment, fines or deportation.
The Filipino teacher’s problems also exposed the issues hounding thousands of workers who have yet to be issued with visas or who have expired documents. They cannot renew because of immigration problems and the closure of borders.
Before the pandemic, foreigners seeking work in Thailand had to have a visa issued either in their home countries or by Thai embassies in neighboring countries.
The visa amnesty ended on September 26. It is estimated that there are about 150,000 foreigners in Thailand who are not able to leave because of the cancellation of flights to their home countries. Another round of amnesties was given until October 31.
On the popular Facebook page of Richard Barrow in Thailand, a British blogger and teacher with more than 100,000 followers, the news attracted racist remarks from other nationalities. These included questioning the qualifications of Filipino teachers, their “weird accents” and more.
This was not the first time a foreigner and a Thai school have become involved in an untoward incident. Do an Internet search for foreign teachers in Thailand and the chances are you will read about pedophiles, criminals, scammers and people who are wanted in their home countries being caught teaching in schools around the country.
Thailand’s demand for English teachers is like a pie. Each English-speaking person wants to have the largest slice because of a perceived lucrative salary. The country’s low English proficiency prompted the education sector to hire people – not necessarily teachers – to teach English and allied subjects at all levels.
In the past, anyone who could speak passable English and was “white” was hired to teach.
In 1999, when the Teachers’ Council of Thailand (Khurusapa) was formed, foreigners had to secure a teaching license, provided they qualified for the requirements. These requirements included not being younger than 20, possessing academic qualifications like a degree in education or its equivalent, having a teaching license from their country of origin or another country, having a graduate diploma in the teaching profession and, of course, no criminal record, as that might “bring dishonor upon the profession.”
A foreigner could acquire a temporary teaching license for two years that could be renewed three times. To be able to obtain a five-year teaching license, a foreigner must have a degree in education or have a diploma in teaching. This license is renewable every five years.
In universities, foreign lecturers must hold a master’s degree or a doctorate. Publications in reputable academic journals are also required for the applicant.
In 2019, in a survey done by Education First (EF), the Philippines scored high with an English Proficiency Index at 60.14. It ranked No 20 out of 100 countries.
English is used in the official correspondence in the Philippine government and the academe. That is not surprising, because the country was a colony of the United States from 1898 to 1946. This English-language skill made Filipinos in demand abroad. To date, about 10 million Filipinos are working overseas in various professions.
According to a 2017 report by the Department of Employment of Thailand, 14,830 Filipinos were working in Thailand, doing jobs in teaching, management, engineering, architecture, hospitality and business. The Philippine Embassy estimated there were 17,921 Filipinos in Thailand. That means at least 4,000 were working in irregular sectors.
Filipinos in Thailand have long been subjected to discrimination when it comes to teaching English. On a popular website recruiting teachers – ajarn.com –
there were advertisements specifically mentioning “non-NES” need not apply, which meant no Filipinos, please.
But the trend has been turning against both sides – the Filipinos and other nationalities sharing the English teaching pie. The Khurusapa’s requirements for teaching are getting stricter by the day.
Some schools may want to hire “whites,” but they must possess the necessary qualifications to obtain a teaching license.
According to Jaycee Dilan, the teachers’ coordinator of the Chulalongkorn University Nonthaburi Project, it only hires teachers with an education degree. The Nonthaburi Project provides teachers to 88 schools in Nonthaburi province. At present, it has 163 Filipinos, 92 Chinese and an American.
Saint Robert’s Global Education, a Bangkok-based Filipino-owned company recognized by Thailand’s Office of Civil Service Commission, provides transnational education to foreign workers who do not have degrees in education, master’s and doctoral degrees or diplomas in teaching.
Today, it has about 700 students of various nationalities taking online classes provided by the Ifugao State University (IFSU) and Far Eastern University-Roosevelt (FEU) in the Philippines.
Instead of pitting one against the other, foreign English teachers should recognize their contributions to the betterment of their host country’s educational system – they are all here because their home countries could not provide them with stable jobs, let alone decent salaries.
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58-year-old Filipina ‘student’ arrested
Police officers in Chiang Mai now suspect that there may be many more foreign teachers such as Ms Pelin. On Tuesday, the arrest of the Filipina student at a language school was announced.
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A Filipino English teacher at the same school was also caught assaulting students in a similar manner.
“According to the evidence, I have to admit that the teacher used excessive force against the child,” Lt. Gen. Ampon said. “The child protection team will talk to the child to assess her mental wellbeing.”
“If the child is found to be mentally affected, investigators will press more charges against them,” he said.
Police in Northeastern Thailand also said at least 10 accounts of assaults are being investigated at the school.
Consequently
police have yet to press charges against the Filipino English teacher.
Even more immigration officers were seen discussing his visa documents at the school.
Two Foreign English Teachers Arrested Over Thailand Face Mask Scam
all die filipino Lehrer, die ohne Arbeitsgenehmigung in Thailand arbeiten,
ja was denken sich die Arbeitgeber,
wollen sie nicht dafür sorgen, dass der Job legal wird,
oder wollen sie nicht das vorgeschriebene Mindestgehalt zahlen ???
Die meisten Schulen wollen keine dunklen Filipinos haben, weil es farblich nicht passt,
dass ein dunkelhäutiger Mensch einem hellhäutigen Kind sagt,
was es zu machen hat ... das gehe angeblich nicht aus rassistischen Gründen,
also muss nun,
6 Monate später, nach der Ankündigung von 3.000 Filipino Englischlehrer, eine neue Welle von Kanadiern,
so sie denn weiss sind,
die Lücke schliessen.
