Topic: International School of Pattaya

[Uncle Che]

I rescued this post from the old site, thought it was important to have people see as I have heard more than one bad story about this school.

International School of Pattaya

These were the issues in the past. I haven't heard anything better. I believe the owner is the same.

A. Documentation issues

1.No copy of the employment contract given to teachers, generally.

2. No Tax ID cards given to teachers; some foreign teachers have been asked to sign blank tax forms.

3. Teachers at ISP pay for their own work permits. ISP will only provide a photocopy of the first and last pages of a teacher?s permit. When a teacher leaves, the work permit is cancelled without notice by ISP. Since teachers cannot have their work permits, they cannot apply themselves for their tax ID cards required by Thai law.

4. Teaching license kept by school. Teachers have been known to appeal to police and to the Education Dept. to get possession of their licences.

5. No Social Insurance card applied for or provided.

6. Teachers pay extra for mininal health insurance coverage

7. Required signing of a work permit cancellation form written only in Thai, so that the employer may backdate it to any time at all.

B. Employment practices

1. No payment is made for the month of August.
2. 5% of a teacher?s pay is deducted to be given back at the end of a two-year contract. But few teachers can stay long. In one year and a half, about 20 teachers left ISP.
3. Daily sign-in and out by thumbprint on a thumbprint reader.
4. Extraordinarily high teacher turnover; in the past, about one per month on average.

[NamTok]

I rescued this post from the old site, thought it was important to have people see as I have heard more than one bad story about this school.

International School of Pattaya

These were the issues in the past. I haven't heard anything better. I believe the owner is the same.

A. Documentation issues

1.No copy of the employment contract given to teachers, generally.

2. No Tax ID cards given to teachers; some foreign teachers have been asked to sign blank tax forms.

3. Teachers at ISP pay for their own work permits. ISP will only provide a photocopy of the first and last pages of a teacher?s permit. When a teacher leaves, the work permit is cancelled without notice by ISP. Since teachers cannot have their work permits, they cannot apply themselves for their tax ID cards required by Thai law.

4. Teaching license kept by school. Teachers have been known to appeal to police and to the Education Dept. to get possession of their licences.

5. No Social Insurance card applied for or provided.

6. Teachers pay extra for mininal health insurance coverage

7. Required signing of a work permit cancellation form written only in Thai, so that the employer may backdate it to any time at all.

B. Employment practices

1. No payment is made for the month of August.
2. 5% of a teacher?s pay is deducted to be given back at the end of a two-year contract. But few teachers can stay long. In one year and a half, about 20 teachers left ISP.
3. Daily sign-in and out by thumbprint on a thumbprint reader.
4. Extraordinarily high teacher turnover; in the past, about one per month on average.

Actually sounds worse than Sarasas Ektra, except for teacher turnover which, at Ektra, is about 3 a month, more early in the year, as many as 8 or 10. You might do well, Che, to look into Ektra. If you like this posting, you might feast on Sarasas Ektra bilingual school.