Teaching in Mongolia For those wanting to teach in Mongolia...

Hi Damien,
thanks a lot for the info as I was approached by Santis as well
how is the living standard over there anyway?
best regards
Adrian

I have a similar experience: I was offered a teaching position in English at one of the private High Schools in Ulan Batoor, with 300 USD a month, shared accomodation and up to 30 hrs teaching periods a week. They also expected me to pay for my own travel expenses. I have rejected that job offer; there are much better places to go and work.

Hi guys,

Living standards in UB vary according to how much you want to spend on your apartment and living costs, basically, if you have the money there´s nothing you can´t get your hands on ... for example last summer me and a friend rented a tank from the Mongolian Army for $60 and drove it around the countryside. The guy who wrote the Lonely Planet for Mongolia owns an apartment in UB and rents it for $1200 USD per month and you don´t get alot for your money. A meal will cost around $5 - $50 USD depending on where you go, you should not drink the tap water as they have issues with heavy metal contamination caused by mining pollution, this includes Cyanide and Mercury in the water. They also have a 13% infant mortality rate, I would not advice Mongolia for couples or families ... There are three schools that cater for foreign children and the cheapest of them is $7,000 USD per academic year, it maybe less if you teach there though. The International School and American School both pay between $2,000 - $3,000 USD pm, which is the best you´ll do as a teacher in Mongolia. There is one cinema showing maybe one english movie each week and an Olympic size swimming pool there are also a couple of Gym´s scattered around now.

An apartment will cost you at least $300 pm and you can comfortably live on around $200 pm covering your living expenses, most of this will be food as doesn´t include socialising. Mongolia is a thrid world country, but it is also very expensive, shoes are more expensive in UB than they are in London! Most western people will spend around $500 pm on living expenses, as fruit and veg is very expensive and all Mongolian food is meat based.

Some school such as the Russian School below, the American School of Ulaanbaatar and the International school offer free teachers accomodation which takes the edge of looking for accomodation. In the winter UB gets to around -25 and in the countryside it sometimes gets down to -50 and a record of - 57.

The people in the city are like city dwellers anywhere in the world, although there have been issues with tourists and foreigners being attacked and even murdered by mongolias Nationalist movement, Dia Mongol. A friend of mine from the US was sexually assaulted for being American when she went to re - knew her Mongolian visa

Having said all that Mongolia is a beautiful country and the nomads in the countryside, who most consider the real Mongolians will bend over backwards to help you. you just have to have your wits around you like anywhere else in the world.

Mongolia regulates it´s currency in line with the US Dollar so a burger and fries will cost you $7 - 15 USD I don´t know if this is standard or if you´re American but it should give you some idea. Also Mongolians don´t like to give money away on salaries but they do have it. For example they will not be seen dead (and I mean literally) in an old car, they mostly drive landcruisers and hummers!

Although most people are very poor living in Shantys in the outside of the cities in Gers, earning around $27 PM Corruption is endemic as is domestic violence and alcoholism, healthcare is almost none existent, they have a serious human trafficking problem, during the winter there´s nothing to do but stay i with a DVD player and veg, because even though it´s very cold there´s no snow, just ice ... but the beer is German! ... I´m currently making a documentary about how bad it is.

I was teaching at a school called Success before I left and I may be going back there to take up a position as head of faculty and we will be looking for teachers if anyone is still interested. We will be paying 10,000 Tugruk per hour (roughly $10) this will also include assisting myself and the schools director in developing the department, curriculum and school as a whole. As we´re less than a year old! If there are any takers after reading the above then I´d be happy to hear from you.

Hi guys,

Living standards in UB vary according to how much you want to spend on your apartment and living costs, basically, if you have the money there´s nothing you can´t get your hands on ... for example last summer me and a friend rented a tank from the Mongolian Army for $60 and drove it around the countryside. The guy who wrote the Lonely Planet for Mongolia owns an apartment in UB and rents it for $1200 USD per month and you don´t get alot for your money. A meal will cost around $5 - $50 USD depending on where you go, you should not drink the tap water as they have issues with heavy metal contamination caused by mining pollution, this includes Cyanide and Mercury in the water. They also have a 13% infant mortality rate, I would not advice Mongolia for couples or families ... There are three schools that cater for foreign children and the cheapest of them is $7,000 USD per academic year, it maybe less if you teach there though. The International School and American School both pay between $2,000 - $3,000 USD pm, which is the best you´ll do as a teacher in Mongolia. There is one cinema showing maybe one english movie each week and an Olympic size swimming pool there are also a couple of Gym´s scattered around now.

An apartment will cost you at least $300 pm and you can comfortably live on around $200 pm covering your living expenses, most of this will be food as doesn´t include socialising. Mongolia is a thrid world country, but it is also very expensive, shoes are more expensive in UB than they are in London! Most western people will spend around $500 pm on living expenses, as fruit and veg is very expensive and all Mongolian food is meat based.

Some school such as the Russian School below, the American School of Ulaanbaatar and the International school offer free teachers accomodation which takes the edge of looking for accomodation. In the winter UB gets to around -25 and in the countryside it sometimes gets down to -50 and a record of - 57.

The people in the city are like city dwellers anywhere in the world, although there have been issues with tourists and foreigners being attacked and even murdered by mongolias Nationalist movement, Dia Mongol. A friend of mine from the US was sexually assaulted for being American when she went to re - knew her Mongolian visa

Having said all that Mongolia is a beautiful country and the nomads in the countryside, who most consider the real Mongolians will bend over backwards to help you. you just have to have your wits around you like anywhere else in the world.

Mongolia regulates it´s currency in line with the US Dollar so a burger and fries will cost you $7 - 15 USD I don´t know if this is standard or if you´re American but it should give you some idea. Also Mongolians don´t like to give money away on salaries but they do have it. For example they will not be seen dead (and I mean literally) in an old car, they mostly drive landcruisers and hummers!

Although most people are very poor living in Shantys in the outside of the cities in Gers, earning around $27 PM Corruption is endemic as is domestic violence and alcoholism, healthcare is almost none existent, they have a serious human trafficking problem, during the winter there´s nothing to do but stay i with a DVD player and veg, because even though it´s very cold there´s no snow, just ice ... but the beer is German! ... I´m currently making a documentary about how bad it is.

I was teaching at a school called Success before I left and I may be going back there to take up a position as head of faculty and we will be looking for teachers if anyone is still interested. We will be paying 10,000 Tugruk per hour (roughly $10) this will also include assisting myself and the schools director in developing the department, curriculum and school as a whole. As we´re less than a year old! If there are any takers after reading the above then I´d be happy to hear from you.