Dr. Ambedkar School

Full-time EFL teaching posts at a special secondary school in NE Hungary

The Dr Ámbédkar Gimnázium is a special (needs?) secondary school supported by the Hungarian State, the Buddhist church and private funds. The school has over 400 young adult and adult students, most of whom come from extremely poor Roma communities. The four teaching centres of the Gimnázium operate in small villages near Miskolc, NE Hungary, providing primary and secondary education and vocational courses.

With the financial support of the Buddhist church, the Gimnázium is offering 4 full-time teaching positions for qualified EFL teachers. Potential candidates should be flexible, willing to take on a challenge, patient and friendly.

General conditions

(The following conditions are based on preliminary information received from the school. Details are currently subject to negotiations and will be finalized by the end of November.)

Employer: Dr. Ámbédkar Gimnázium, Szakképző és Általános Iskola (3720 Sajókaza, Ady E. út 2.)

Contracts: full-time, from 3 to 12 months.

Accommodation: in Miskolc or Kazincbarcika (nearest towns) provided in rented flats by the school.

Teaching load: 24 teaching hours (45ʼ) /week.

Travel to/from teaching centres: by bus (public transport) where available, elsewhere car transfer will be provided.

Salary: HUF150,000 net pcm (accommodation provided free of charge)

Paid holiday: 6-8 weeks (summer, Easter, for one year contracts)

Start date: January 2011

International House Budapest is planning to provide educational support for teaching staff working on the Teaching the Roma project.

Further information:

Zoltán Rozgonyi, director, Euro Exam Centre (rozi@euroexam.org)
Please note that the Euro Exam Centreʼs role is to support the Gimnázium by giving information to teachers interested in the teaching positions on offer. The Euro Examination Centre will not be involved in contracting teaching staff for the school.

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Our school leavers said goodbye in community centre of Jai Bhim Network on Monday on 15 June 2009. In the name of the school leavers Horváth Attila said goodbye with the poem of Lázi Károlyné. Lázi Mónika wished a good carreer in the name of students’. Derdák Tibor and Orsós János expressed their best wishes from behalf of Dr. Ambedkar School. After our young talents gave a foretaste of their repertoire that they had played on Athe Sam. That was a hige Gipsy Festival in Budapest last week where our musicians were invited and had a great success.

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If so, the Dr. Ambedkar High School maybe just a place for you…

• We are looking for teachers who want to mold the futures of a culture that so desperately wants to give back.
• We are a buddhist affiliated high school in the Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and Baranya county of Hunagry that specializes in educating gypsies and marginalized peoples of the country.
• We also work to empower the families of our students, to ensure that they too will have a future of exellence through education.

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