Saudi Arabia

In General: Many complaints come out of the Middle East especially Saudi Arabia. However the nature of the complaints are very different from those that typically come out of Asian countries like Korea. Korea has many serious complaints of a contractual nature like not getting paid. In the Middle East the complaints are more of a nature like difficult or even abusive students, incompetant management, having to give failing students good grades, babysitting rather than teaching (even more so than Asia), students not studying like Asian students do, low morale and so on. For these type of problems, while very real we just put "unhappy trooper", whereas if there are contractual breaches we will give more details. So while we have listed peoples unhappyness here, teachers coming to the Middle East have to realistically expect most of the above things as being an almost universal  part of teaching in the Middle east and have an idea of how to cope or they shouldn't go.

Al Rajhi

One unhappy trooper.

Dar Al Fikr School Jeddah

One report of the usual complaints plus pay being late.

ETM

One report of many lies.

Institue of Public Administration

One unhappy trooper.

Jubail Industrial College

Many and long complaints.

King Faisal School (KFS)

Riyadh

Several unhappy teachers with complaints including long hours and high staff turnover.

Prince Sultan College for Tourism & Hotel Sciences

One report that teachers wern't being paid in full or/and that it was late.

Saline Water Conversion Corporation (S.W.C.C.)

A couple of unhappy teachers.

One unhappy trooper.

SAMA-IOB

Riyadh