A mate of mine has just left to go back to Holland - he speaks perfect English , and has been teaching here for years.
He was out of contract at a local school, and it was not renewed.(several months ago)
He has a house, wife, and children here, and cannot get another teaching job, so has to go back to Holland to provide for his family from there.
Understandably, it's all very depressing for him.
Do you have a link to the press release? I'll forward it to him, it might cheer him up!
Well i don't know if it will cheer him up because I would imagine that their decision to only hire teachers from Native English countries probably hasn't changed. Here is one of the articles about what i was talking about though.
The same situation is happening for a couple of people I know that have been teaching here for years also.
Cheers. The Bangkok Post, of course...