I don’t really have anything new to report this week, as NYU Abu Dhabi hasn’t sent out another press release yet — unless you count the recent tidbit on the ‘leaning tower of Abu Dhabi’ posted on the Salaam blog. As someone who has to drive past this architectural abomination on a pretty regular basis, it’s the last thing I want to read about, but if NYU and the rest of the UAE want to go on comparing it to the campanile at Pisa, they can go right ahead. See for yourself:
Architectural Abomination
Architectural Beauty
Back to today’s post…
I had a quick look at the search terms that have pointed folks towards this blog over the past few months, and thought I would post them for all to see:
| kustar salary |
8 |
| uaeu and chronicle |
8 |
| “chronicle of higher education” |
6 |
| hct sucks |
5 |
| nyu abu dhabi |
4 |
| hume, uae, chronicle |
4 |
| academics in the desert |
4 |
| uaeu “hume” |
4 |
| khalifa university salaries |
3 |
| kustar |
3 |
| http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/ |
3 |
| chronicle uaeu hume |
3 |
| salary zayed 17000 |
3 |
| al hosn university chronicle |
3 |
| msu dubai |
3 |
| kustar allowance |
3 |
| abu dhabi nyu |
2 |
| “khalifa university” “per child” |
2 |
| “khalifa university” “allowance” |
2 |
| job cuts uae university |
2 |
| the national american university of rak |
2 |
| hct salaries |
2 |
| khalifa university salary |
2 |
| hume uaeu |
2 |
| daves esl cafe zayed university |
2 |
| eslcafe + khalifa university + 40000 aed |
2 |
| dave’s esl cafe alhosn university |
2 |
| “money proves elusive” hume |
2 |
| dave’s esl cafe hct 2010 |
2 |
| tod laursen salary khalifa university |
2 |
| academics in teh desert |
2 |
| housing zayed university |
2 |
| laursen khalifa |
2 |
| salary package and uaeu 2010 |
2 |
| msu dubai cancels class |
2 |
| nyuad |
2 |
| teaching vacancies iat uae |
1 |
| uaeu firing faculty |
1 |
| iat hct salary compare |
1 |
| the hidden gender gap in education in th |
1 |
| khda report 2010 of apple international |
1 |
| pay freeze uae universities |
1 |
| chronicle.com/article/money-proves-elusi |
1 |
| american university of sharjah faculty s |
1 |
| dave esl cafe forum khalifa university u |
1 |
| salary “khalifa university” |
1 |
| “abu dhabi university” ” per child” |
1 |
| aed job salary professor “zayed universi |
1 |
| kustar daves esl |
1 |
| uaeu hume chroncile of higher education |
1 |
This isn’t really that interesting, but I thought I’d run a few numbers and see what is leading readers here — partly out of desperation for something to write about, and partly because this sort of information helps me decide what to write about more. And the winner is…
Anything related to compensation. 35% of the time, search strings related to compensation (salaries and/or allowances).
The runner up appears to be a near tie between anything related to KUSTAR (32% of searches) and anything related to UAEU (30% of searches). Note: these include compensation-related queries, so don’t expect the numbers to add to 100%.
Third place is shared by Zayed University and NYUAD (each included in 8% of searches).
So what does this tell me?
In some ways, not that much — this blog is way below the radar with respect to established universities and places that have been all over the news, so I won’t show up on a search for anything related to NYU Abu Dhabi until several Google pages down from the top. Run a search on less written-up institutions, like the relatively new Khalifa University, and I’m more likely to be in the forefront.
But one interesting find is that many people appear to be searching for salary information. What does this tell us? One, the higher education (and non-TESL-related) market here is young enough that information on compensation is scarce. Two, job candidates are really concerned about money — and not very concerned, it would seem, about, things like student attitudes/performance, grading pressure, or general academic culture.
While I don’t want this to morph into a blog specifically about compensation, I am interested in catering to the market, so if you’d like to (anonymously) contribute any information on your salary and benefit packages, I’m very happy to post it.
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