Red Flag & Warning! Think Twice Before Joining This Famous International School (GUIS/NCPA/ULC)!
I know this site is mainly for students, but I just have to get it out there. Fellow educators, please keep your eyes wide open when job hunting! Writing this purely to save others from falling into the same trap. I have to expose the grim reality behind this shiny facade of a school (NCPA & ULC High School Division).
To sum up the school right now in one sentence: The management is chaotic, the culture is toxic, there is zero job security, and teachers are constantly in survival mode.
1️⃣ A Workplace Nightmare: Revolving-Door Leadership
Constant Leadership Shuffles: Three principals in three years. Senior management changes like a carousel; you never know who will be in charge tomorrow. At ULC, staff were even left in a bizarre information vacuum for weeks, having no idea who was actually leading.
Surveillance Over Support: Leadership is completely disconnected from clas.sroom reality. They’ve weaponized constant observations ("learning walks") to micromanage staff. Even more absurdly, the HR Director was appointed as a second deputy head—a non-educator now pacing the corridors acting as a literal hall monitor.
A Culture of Compliance: If you dare to speak up or criticize, you either don't get renewed or you get placed under intense scrutiny. Whole-staff meetings feel like an execution chamber; with no clear agendas, teachers live in constant fear that they are being called in just to be fired.
2️⃣ Educational Breakdown: Students are "Untouchable"
Discipline is Practically Dead: Students are heavily addicted to their devices. Because dormitory regulation is non-existent, students stay up all night and spend the day fast asleep in clas.srooms and the coffee shop—an embarras.sing sight even for pas.sing parents.
Students Skip, Teachers Pay: When students fail at the end of the year due to extreme chronic absences, leadership doesn't fix the root cause. Instead, they force teachers to generate endless paperwork to figure out the bare minimum needed to pas.s them. Teachers have no authority; if a student complains, the teacher is instantly thrown under the bus.
3️⃣ Relentless Mismanagement & Disrespect
Shut Down Without Warning: When the preschool and elementary sections closed, management allegedly withheld the information until the last minute. This left staff families completely stranded without schooling for their own kids, and many teachers missed the peak recruitment window, leaving them abruptly unemployed.
Image Over Substance: Budgets for actual department resources are tightly restricted, yet money magically appears for vanity projects—like replacing laptops for staff who already had perfectly working devices.
📢 The Ultimate Verdict
Any lingering optimism about the two divisions merging into "one great school" is officially dead. The remaining teachers are simply fighting to survive day-to-day, treated as nothing more than replaceable cogs in a machine.
If you value professional dignity, stability, a fair environment, and your mental health...
Take my advice: Run. DO NOT COME.