Proulex - 44160 Guadalajara

Me encanta proulex y sus maestros, su atencion personalizada, la convivencia, es fácil aprender!

Solo son oficinas, no se imparten clases aquí. Para eso están Proulex Universidad o La Paz como sedes más cercanas.

DO NOT TRUST THESE PEOPLE AS EMPLOYERS! I applied to work for the Proulex last year when I saw the ad attached — what sounded like a great job: Free housing. Free flights home. Transport. 200 pesos per hour to work at a prestigious university. I was told by the recruitment agent that I had to move to Guadalajara first, and so, I arranged this with my partner. When we arrived six months later, I was told the working conditions in fact would not include ANY of the above. So, no house. No flights. No transport. And the salary? They would be paying as little as 50 pesos per hour for some classes. Bear in mind that an hour of class also involves around an hour of prep, corrections, and evaluation, and you’re looking at 25 pesos per hour to deliver university level tuition. That’s six times less than my wages at my former job at a tiny, distinctly unprestigious public university in Oaxaca. With little choice, as my partner had already started a new job here and we had now rented an apartment for the year, I waited for the beginning of term. A couple of times a week, I would call to check how things were with my work visa and would always be told things were coming along nicely. I'm told I have the job and they're even seeing if they can negotiate a higher wage. The week before term starts and I still haven’t received a single piece of paperwork from them. They admit on the phone that in fact they never began the work visa process and the academic manager forgot to send me the paperwork for the job, and it now may be too late… but they’ll let me know. Well, they didn’t let me know. When I went to Adrian (the Academic Officer)’s office, I was told to wait for him, then after twenty minutes told that he must have left via a back exit — like some comic book villain! Art (Head of Teacher Training) is equally untrustworthy, as well as having a particularly unpleasant and unprofessional manner towards colleagues, students and interviewees. His arrogance, I’ve learnt from others, is the stuff of legend. There do seem to be some friendly and well-intentioned staff here, but there is clearly something structurally wrong here. I find it deeply sad that the University of Guadalajara has privatised its language department, only to pay them to come in and provide tuition in the university itself. It has clearly created a loophole for exploitation of skilled teachers — nowhere else in the UdG would anyone be expected to teach forty class-hours a week. It is clear that a lot of money is being made through the Proulex (Adrian and Art are proud that it’s one of the UdG’s most profitable businesses), but little of that money filters down to the teachers. I find it difficult to imagine any decent English teacher wanting to work for their university program. There seems to be a total lack of competence on the part of senior members of staff and an impressive degree of arrogance. I guess this is just what happens when you hand over public education to people whose sole goal is to make a ton of money.