Xiamen University
Xiamen University- One of China's key comprehensive universities...
Xiamen - A beautiful garden on the sea, the most pleasant city in China...
Dormitory Buildings |
JiaGeng Buildings for offices & classrooms |
Library on Zhangzhou Campus |
QunXian Buildings |
Brief Introduction
Xiamen 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, Xiamen University has become a first-class comprehensive university in China equipped with a strong team of faculty and staff, offering a 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, Xiamen University has become a comprehensive university offering a fairly complete range of education programs.
Faculty
Xiamen University has a strong team of around 5,000 excellent and innovative faculty and staff, including more than 2,300 full-time teachers, of whom 1,400 are professors and associate professors. In recent years, Xiamen 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 Xiamen 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, Xiamen Unversity received a straight-A score in the undergraduate-level Teaching Appraisal organized by the Ministry of Education.
Campuses
This university has an area of 524.5 hectares, located across 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.
Last Quarter (Yanwu) Playground |
Qingming Swimming Pool |
 Baicheng Seashore |
Jiannan Auditorium Complex and First Quarter (Shangxian) Playground |
There are two major campuses currently in use, Xiamen Campus and Zhangzhou Campus. All of the undergraduates stay and study on Zhangzhou 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 on the outskirt of Zhangzhou City, facing Xiamen across a short strait with a distance of about 3.5 miles wide. It takes about 1 hour to travel from Xiamen Campus to Zhangzhou Campus first by school bus, then ferry and school bus again. School buses and ferries run regularly to meet class hours from Monday through Friday.
Xiamen University is now making great strides towards its goal of "building a high-level university well-known both at home and abroad."
Position I and II:
I.Oral English Teacher for freshmen and sophomores of non-English majors at College English Department in College of Foreign Language and Cultures
Contract Period: Commencing from September/October 2008 to June/July 2009
Work load: 14-16 teaching hours per week plus a couple of office hours.
Job Responsibilities: offering Conversational English classes and selective classes to freshmen and sophomores
Position II:
French Teacher at the Department of French Languages and Cultures, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures
Contract Period: Commencing from September 2008 to July 2009
Work load: 12-14 teaching hours per week plus a couple of office hours.
Qualification Requirements : Native speaker of French with at least a Bachelor's degree and two years of teaching experience.
Qualification Requirements :
- Native English speaker with at least a Bachelor's degree and two years of formal teaching experience.
- Between 22-60 years old.
Payment Standards for All Positions:
Basic Salary: RMB 4500/5000/5500 per month, depending mostly on the academic degree with consideration of teaching experience
Housing Allowance: RMB 1300/1500/1700 per month, depending on the academic degree. Two weeks of temporary stay in the Guesthouse on the main campus can be offered for free to new teachers upon first arrival if needed.
Zhangzhou Allowance: RMB500 per month if all contracted classes are given on Zhangzhou Campus; if partially, it'll be calculated proportionately.
Lunch Allowance: RMB440 per month except for March and September, depending on your work attendance of the previous month.
Airfare: up to RMB8000 reimbursed for home-going international tickets by the end of the contract depending on complete documents.
Library on Xiamen Main Campus |
Application:
Application Documents:
1. CV
2. Copy of Passport Photopage
3. Copy of Degree Diplomas
Please send your application materials to the following contact
person, either via email or fax:
Ms. Yu Xiaofang (Marina)
E-mail: xmupersonnel@hotmail.com,personnel@xmu.edu.cn
MSN: xmupersonnel@hotmail.com
Tel：0086-592-2182162
Fax：0086-592-2183984
Add: Personnel Division,Xiamen University
No. 422 Simingnan Road, Xiamen, Fujian, 361005 P.R.China
Website : http://www.xmu.edu.cn/english/
