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Review Guidelines

Teachers read these pages to decide whether an offer will work financially, professionally, and personally. Specific, balanced reports help more than a score alone. For how we aggregate and moderate data, see how we handle data.

What Makes a Great Review

Be Specific

Include concrete details. "Planning time was two free periods a week; meetings ran into most evenings" helps more than "Busy place."

Cover the workplace, not just vibes

Useful topics: leadership responsiveness, workload and weekly hours, teaching load and preparations, planning time, class sizes, student and admin support, resources, professional development, staff turnover, and whether promised benefits matched reality.

Be Balanced

Share what was better than expected and what was harder than expected. Readers need both sides to weigh an offer.

Write for a friend considering the school

What would you tell a colleague before they resign and relocate? Who is likely to thrive here, and who might struggle?

Be Honest and Current

Only review schools where you actually worked. Mention when you were there. Leadership and conditions change, and dates help readers interpret older reports.

Add role context

Role, department or subject, grade level, and approximate years at the school help explain why two honest reviews may disagree.

What to Avoid

No Personal Attacks

Don't name or identify specific individuals. Focus on policies and practices, not personalities.

No Discriminatory Content

Content that discriminates based on race, gender, religion, or other protected characteristics will be removed.

No False Information

Don't exaggerate or invent details. Stick to what you personally experienced.

No Confidential Information

Don't share information you're legally obligated to keep confidential.

No Spam or Promotion

Reviews should be genuine, not promotional content or competitive attacks.

Avoid identifying combinations

In small international-school communities, stacking role, department, exact dates, and personal details can identify someone. Prefer non-identifying context.

Salary Data Guidelines

Report Actual Figures

Share what you actually earned, not advertised ranges or what you heard others make.

Include the Complete Package

Housing or housing allowance, flights (and whether dependents are covered), insurance, tax or take-home context, relocation support, tuition benefits, pension or gratuity, and estimated monthly savings all change which offer is actually better.

Label Savings as Estimates

Savings potential is teacher-reported and depends on lifestyle and family situation. Note the year and currency so readers do not treat an old figure as a current guarantee.

Specify Your Role

Salaries vary by position, experience, and qualifications. Provide role and experience context so your data is useful.

Hiring experience (optional but useful)

Accepting an international post often means resigning, relocating, and arranging visas. If you want to mention recruitment, concrete details help:

  • How many interview rounds, and what each was for
  • Timeline and clarity of communication
  • Whether salary and benefits were disclosed before late stages
  • Whether rejection or next-step messages were respectful and specific

Moderation process

Every review and salary report is reviewed manually before publishing. Approval usually takes a few days. The possible outcomes:

  • Approved as-is and published
  • Email back to you with a clarification request
  • Rejected if it violates these guidelines — you'll hear why and can revise and resubmit

Schools cannot pay to remove negative reviews. Removals happen only for documented policy violations.

See something that shouldn't be there?

Use the "Report" button on the review or salary report. Every flagged item is checked. Reports that turn out to be substantive (defamation, identifying named staff, false information) result in removal; reports that are just a school disagreeing with negative-but-honest content do not.