Oh no, not reduced demand on our limited housing availability
I doubt it’s the school themselves, they couldn’t give a shite whether they have accommodation or not, they just want their money.
One of my favourite students had to return back to Costa Rica due to not being able to find a place, even with the part time work here. He isn’t alone, as I have heard of many students in my school being forced back to their home countries because they were fed up of the dangerous 16 bed dorm rooms in a 3 bed house somewhere in the underbelly of the city center. Imagine that your old life in Costa Rica, Salvador and Venezuela were better than the supposed first world.
I don’t know why English language schools still exist in this day and age- surely as a student you’d be just as better off learning English from the Internet and the schools, instead of being restricted to having 30 people in a physical classroom, could just have Zoom meetings with 1000s? Surely the pandemic proved this?
These schools always seem like such a scam to me. I know a few Brazilians attending them and they always seem to end up living in shoddy accommodation and working minimum wage zero hour contracts. The fees aren’t cheap either from what I gather. Its like landlords, service industry are just using them for cheaper labour/tenants with no other choice. That being said the Brazilians I know living here love it!
They’re only allowed to work for 20 hours on Stamp 2 visas. Usually as kitchen porters, waiters, cleaners so they’re often only making the bare 200. It’s not actually logical to come here and expect to live in Dublin under the conditions that are readily available to research before arrival. I’ve heard awful stories of people arriving and sleeping in the airport, staff rooms etc but there needs to be a burden of responsibility left with the person who travels here expecting to survive on part time hours. Those working full time can’t cope, what are they expecting exactly.
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Oh no, not reduced demand on our limited housing availability
I doubt it’s the school themselves, they couldn’t give a shite whether they have accommodation or not, they just want their money.
One of my favourite students had to return back to Costa Rica due to not being able to find a place, even with the part time work here. He isn’t alone, as I have heard of many students in my school being forced back to their home countries because they were fed up of the dangerous 16 bed dorm rooms in a 3 bed house somewhere in the underbelly of the city center. Imagine that your old life in Costa Rica, Salvador and Venezuela were better than the supposed first world.
I don’t know why English language schools still exist in this day and age- surely as a student you’d be just as better off learning English from the Internet and the schools, instead of being restricted to having 30 people in a physical classroom, could just have Zoom meetings with 1000s? Surely the pandemic proved this?
These schools always seem like such a scam to me. I know a few Brazilians attending them and they always seem to end up living in shoddy accommodation and working minimum wage zero hour contracts. The fees aren’t cheap either from what I gather. Its like landlords, service industry are just using them for cheaper labour/tenants with no other choice. That being said the Brazilians I know living here love it!
They’re only allowed to work for 20 hours on Stamp 2 visas. Usually as kitchen porters, waiters, cleaners so they’re often only making the bare 200. It’s not actually logical to come here and expect to live in Dublin under the conditions that are readily available to research before arrival. I’ve heard awful stories of people arriving and sleeping in the airport, staff rooms etc but there needs to be a burden of responsibility left with the person who travels here expecting to survive on part time hours. Those working full time can’t cope, what are they expecting exactly.