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schoolboy
  4/23/2013 13:33 EST

Hello all,

I would like to ask if anyone has ever had there child attend this school?.

1. If so what was your experiences?
2. Is it professional?
3. Do children follow an English education system?
4. Does the school have a high staff turnover?
5. Are classrooms always active and monitored and taught by schoolteachers?
6. Do they have fully equipped facilities? e.g science and maths equipment?
7. Do children progress and is their learning support in mother tongue english?
8. Do they follow european standards quality of teaching?

Many thanks for any feedback.

zanzara72
  4/23/2013 14:22 EST

Forget about Bloom, send him to Bocconi......

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milanmister
  6/9/2013 18:01 EST

I have knowledge of this school and agree with you 100%
What is your link with the school please?

TeachEng
  8/12/2013 11:07 EST

I will have to add that this establishment is not a school or run like a school.
Teachers that arrive from England to follow the curriculum are made promises and most important ones I will number as every teacher recruited is duped with false information.
1. Salary for teachers.
Teachers are promised salaries but never receive them, instead they are given a zero working hours contract. So the hours you work is the hours you get paid. Do not even attempt to write your working hours in your time sheet as then you will not be paid overtime or your deserved pay.

2. Teachers Paid Monthly.
For the time I was at the school I never seen a teacher paid accurate. We are lucky to be paid on time which was the hardest thing to cope with since arriving to the school from England. Wages are due to be paid on the 10th but instead teachers are paid anywhere between the 15 to the last day of the month.

Bloom International College is not education and how they keep there international Cambridge status is a disgrace. I have seen better facilities in Cambodia. They must be paying someone at Cambridge very well every month.
Let's not talk about the GCSE Exams which again Sri lankan staff completed for students and the director of the place also refused to seal the envelopes in front of the supervising teacher.

The Director the Husband the Co-ordinator do not even have a teaching background and they treat the staff like rubbish, and the most difficult thing to watch is those people and the Sri lankan staff Hitting children on a daily basis.

milanmister
  8/12/2013 13:47 EST

I, too, am a former teacher there. Everything you say is true in my experience also. However, the most worrying factor for me is the accusation of cheating on IGCSE's. This is an internationally renowned examination and examination board we're talking about. Is this really what's happening?

tomaszbethell
  8/23/2013 02:36 EST

would anyone who has worked at this school please reach out to me?

I just agreed to a job there and would love to hear more about your experiences.

My e-mail address is [email protected]

Thanks and best,
Tom

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gaminigamini
  9/22/2013 16:00 EST

Hay Calsi, I found the truth. you are still working there telling lies

Mandyo
  7/14/2014 15:07 EST

This is the worst run school ever. I was really looking forward to moving to Italy to teach. I moved and it was living hell. Never got paid on time. Sometimes never got paid. Made to feel stupid when asking for wages. Treated like you are thick constantly. They bully staff and make them feel inferior. I fled Italy after 4 months and it was the best decision I ever made leaving that 'school. NEVER work there!!!

Mandyo
  7/14/2014 15:08 EST

Hello, did you end up working at the school? I had a horrendous experience there...

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