About This University
One of China's key comprehensive universities...
Xiamen - A beautiful garden on the sea, the most pleasant city in China...
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Brief Introduction
This University was founded in 1921 by Mr. Tan Kah Kee, a well-known patriotic overseas Chinese leader. It was the first university in China founded by an overseas Chinese. At present it’s the only key comprehensive university directly affiliated with the Education Ministry in any of the five Special Economic Zones and is one of China’s higher-level universities designated for the state key construction of the “211 Project” and the “985 Project”. As a result of over 85 years of construction, This University has become a first-class comprehensive university in China equipped with a strong team of faculty and staff, offering complete range of programs of education, and exerting extensive international influence.
Institutions
With its 28 colleges and graduate schools, including 45 departments and more than 80 research institutes, This University has become a comprehensive university offering a fairly complete range of education programs.
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Faculty
This University has a strong team of around 5,000 excellent and innovative faculty and staff, including more than 2,300 tenured teachers and about 1,400 professors and associate professors. In recent years, This University has attached great importance to introducing high-level scholars to reinforce its faculty and staff and to strengthen the research group. Nowadays, more and more leading professors, eminent scholars and highly potential young researchers have come to work at This University.
Students
The university now has a total enrollment of over 35,000 full-time students on campus, including 20,195 undergraduates, 12,213 master students, 2,023 doctoral students, and over 1200 international students. In 2005, This Unversity received a straight-A score in the undergraduate-level Teaching Appraisal organized by the Ministry of Education.
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Campuses
This university has an area of 524.5 hectares, located around the Xiamen bay, and set amidst picturesque scenery, with its campus running along the seashore at the foot of mountains. It is popularly acknowledged as one of the most beautiful campuses in China. The university has an excellent environment for teaching and living and bringing up talents.
There are two major campuses currently running, Xiamen Campus and Zhangzhou Campus. All of the undergraduates stay and study on campus for their first and second years and move to Xiamen Campus for the third and fourth. All of the postgraduate students stay and study on Xiamen Campus. Zhangzhou Campus is situated in a town of Zhangzhou City, facing Xiamen across a short strait with a distance of about 3.5 miles. It takes about 1 hour to travel from Xiamen Campus to Zhangzhou Campus by the school bus and ferry which runs regularly during Monday to Friday.
This University is now making great strides towards its goal of "building a high-level university well-known both at home and abroad."
Offer Standards for All Positions:
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Contract Period: Commencing from Feb. or September/October
Work load: 12-14 teaching hours per week plus a couple of office hours.
Qualification Requirements :
1.Native speaker with at least a Bachelor's degree and one year of teaching experience.
2.Between 22-60 years old.