Tis pity that some of the pompous twat academic types and the 'born again' crowd don't realize this! Oh yeah I forgot, they came here to 'make a difference'-not make money. And, of course, to have their ego's massaged. This semester SCIC has them all [those teaching year 1 of the scam] doing the most ludicrous 'split shifts'-with a class at 7.50 until 9.30 am, followed by a gruelling 'break' until 7.30 pm when they have another almost 2 hour session. Oh well, I suppose the hours in between allow those unfortunate writing teachers to grade all those essays and writing journals!

I always suspected "oral teachers", an awkward phrase in my opinion, of being or not being something else. That's it! They are not "anal teachers".

Broaden your horizon to discuss scams for your pigboy or silver dog lining sticks to you. Mr. Wu Mao, Dr. Tjaculate, FTs and Unis' programs in China or abroad will get their dough, since our planet turns around dinaro (and of course bodacious tatas). Dishonest behaviors on board or in schools truly hurt, when FTs don't get the overall perspective and students don't acquire the knowledge they need to make the world a better place than it is.

Wu Laoban,
In life, one must choose between Cerberus' heads: greed, fame, or justice.
Trump's madness is because he chose two.
Enjoy your wealth. Do not delude yourself that it is just.
In China, it is no longer glorious to be rich.

The question here is 'why' are all these students suddenly exposed to a
difficult IELTS test halfway through a semester?

Control of the school is a mysterious matrix between the strange Canadian 'founder', the SCIC Dean and the administrators of Xida. The SCIC Chinese staff and teachers can barely hide their contempt for the Chinese Canadian founder who is Trump-like in his arrogance and self-promotion. I suspect that seniors members of Xida feel the same way about him, and perhaps about SCIC itself.

The Dean, a lovely woman, has visions of SCIC becoming a genuine preparatory college for students to study overseas. Given that essentially the entire student body has no intent to study overseas and SCIC's one marketing point is entry into Xida, this is a delusion.

The founder/buffoon's income is generated predominately by the affiliated IELTS company. All Chinese students are grade fanatics; many seek IELTS classes to improve their internal SCIC grades.

Students taking 'IELTS-lite' exams feeds both the Dean's hopeless aspirations and the founder's purse.

True regarding the listening midterm during semester 1. Students who had been doing pretty well with the listening exercises + vocabulary in the textbooks were suddenly given a week of 'prep classes' for the mid term IELTS test-as if this could in any way prepare them for the actual IELTS exam-which most of them understandably achieved very low scores in. Of course these low scores had to be 'artificially inflated' by the teaching staff to fall within the 75-84% required level that all students must attain. More ridiculous work. The question here is 'why' are all these students suddenly exposed to a difficult IELTS test halfway through a semester? A test that is totally unrelated to, and way above the level of English that they have been studying up to that point!