Company Profile

    Company overview

    Industry

    Education, Training & Professional Development

    Company size

    11-50

    Primary location

    Jalan Cengai, Tanjung Tokong, 11200 Tanjong Bungah, Penang, Malaysia
    A growing International school in Penang offering the internationally recognised British Cambridge curriculum from Early Years to A-Levels . Pelita International believes that every child is unique and within each child is a creative genius waiting to be discovered and developed. We believe in developing children with not only high IQ but high EQ. Pelita International is a place to learn, play and grow together joyfully and confidently.

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    3.210 ratings in total
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    What’s it like working at Pelita International School?

    AI summary of recent reviews

    Pelita International School offers a positive working environment surrounded by nature, with supportive colleagues and a focus on holistic student development. Teachers appreciate the autonomy they have in planning lessons and the training and development opportunities provided by the school.

    However, there are some potential challenges, such as a high turnover rate for students as parents prefer larger schools, limited facilities and resources like the lack of a library or canteen, workload and job scope issues with teachers being overworked and having unclear responsibilities, communication and planning concerns with ad-hoc activities and frequent schedule changes, and compensation and benefits challenges around pay deductions and lack of annual leave.

    Recent reviews

    5.0
    Guru
    Jan 2023
    Very nice and helpful
    The good thingsGood experience and well prepared is the best things you have to do before going to class
    The challengesNice environment very helpful teachers and gain a lot of nice memories
    2.0
    Education Specialist and Team Lead
    Apr 2022
    Penang3 to 4 years in the role, former employee
    Unprofessional work environment
    The good thingsMay be a good place for fresh graduates, who are looking for teaching experience as they pursue a stepping stone to better things in their teaching career.
    The challenges1. The company can be unprofessional, as they tend to combine classes of different grade levels for teaching and learning, for example students from Early Years could be attending the same class together with students from Years 1 and 2 for subjects such as Maths, Geography and English. 2. Without prior approval via the ministry of education, nor having proper and readily available resources to teach, the school is offering Cambridge University A-Level program full time. At present, 2 students are pursuing the course in the pioneering year for the school. 3. Rude teaching staff who often fail to communicate well with other staff 4. Often carrying out activities on ad-hoc and without proper planning, while scheduled activities on school calendar for parents change regularly and on last minute basis. 5. School canteen closed down with the reason of covid-19 pandemic and the school has no plans for reopening of this facility 6. No library facility available for students. Principal blaming staff for failure to open the facility. 7. School often expect staff to work offline, especially during holidays and weekends
    3.0
    Primary teacher
    Jun 2019
    great to have an experience working there with the positive and kind teamwork
    The good thingspositive and supportive teamworks. enjoy to handle the children and supportive parents.
    The challengesthe workload at one time in many departments
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