Category Archives: Job security

Is a good teacher worth good money? Part Two

I seem to be preaching to the converted here (unless the people who disagree with me are so infuriated that their fingers have tensed up and they temporarily can’t use a keyboard), but I’d already started writing part two before … Continue reading

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TEFL in the news- IH takes 9 year old into youth academy, trains him for greatness

It seems International House has found a way out of the severe worldwide competition with Bell, the British Council and Central School of English for the cream of the TEFL teaching crop by signing up children who have shown their precocious … Continue reading

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TEFL= the perfect job

According to Garrison Keillor, “92% [of young people] want a ‘flexible work schedule’, 96% want a job that ‘requires creativity’, and 97% want a job that ‘allows me to have an impact on the world’”. And for my reaction I can … Continue reading

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