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Category Archives: Let’s Japan
Eikaiwa continues to shrink
David English House in Hiroshima, a well respected school run by author and all round booster of professionalism in Nippon David Paul, closed for business on 1 September leaving him personally bankrupt. Sounds like they managed the process well, though, according … Continue reading
‘Shane English School (NZ) faces liquidation’?
Don’t know if it’s true, and don’t know what it would mean if it was, but it would have a strange and worrying symmetry with the recent problems with GEOS Australia, also a mainly Japan-based chain with branches in the … Continue reading
Posted in Eikaiwa, Geos, Let's Japan, Shane Language Schools, Teaching English in Japan, TEFL chains
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Golly gosh, not Geos too??!
Two years after the demise of Nova, by far the biggest chain of Eikaiwa (English conversation) schools in Japan, rumours are that one of the remaining big three, Geos, is also showing signs of strain with late payment of wages, … Continue reading
Posted in Eikaiwa, Geos, Let's Japan, Nova, Teaching English in Japan
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Two new ways of blacklisting schools
As I’ve worked for the school in these two links I can tell you that the changes in technology certainly haven’t improved on the usual TEFL blacklisting accuracy (although they can’t be much worse than Sandy’s recent accusations of a … Continue reading
How teaching English can save your life Quote of the Day
“I will practice my English with you, if you will do me the honor” “You keep alive just to practice your English?” Ken Watanabe and Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai, enacting a scene set 130 years before Nova teachers … Continue reading
Posted in History of English teaching in Japan, Let's Japan, Nova, Teaching English in Asia, Teaching English in Japan, TEFL blogs
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