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EFL classes in decline in the UK?
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Stuka



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 12:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hod wrote:
Stuka wrote:
Britain's terrorist warning is still at SEVERE and ISIS have threatened attacks on London so it would be sensible for teachers to proceed with caution.


What a laugh. I'm in central London every two or three weeks now. Let's all stay at home and be scared. You're about 10 million times more likely to be killed by a bus driven by a Daily Mail reader than a terrorist attack.


It's not about facts but perceptions of what might happen. The media whips up fear and people grow concerned, especially Chinese parents who worry about their little emperors when they go overseas. If I was an Asian parent, I might think of sending my kid to Australia or NZ and not London because the risks of being blown up would be lower in the Antipodes.
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Stuka



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 12:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

LarssonCrew wrote:
I'm still confused how Asian parents will pay me 30 or 40 quid an hour and not expect too much, but a school in the UK expects suit and tie and shedloads of paperwork for 1/3 of that in a city that costs 3 times as much to live in.


There is a chronic shortage of teachers in the UK . . . soon they'll be a chronic shortage of TEFL teachers too. The salaries are appallingly low and the expectations of what you need to do for the measly pay are completely unreasonable. It won't be too long before schools and colleges(and universities) start importing Filipinos to teach ESL. Thailand imports them, why not the UK?
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 7:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stuka wrote:
It won't be too long before schools and colleges(and universities) start importing Filipinos to teach ESL. Thailand imports them, why not the UK?

No way, the UK will not import anybody to teach ESL, we have plenty of our home English teachers, the market is fully booked, thank you. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 7:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stuka wrote:
If I was an Asian parent, I might think of sending my kid to Australia or NZ and not London because the risks of being blown up would be lower in the Antipodes.

You are 1000 times more likely to be killed by a crocodile in Australia than by a bomb in London.
London is safe, and is full of tourists from all over the world.
Just watch the red bus when you cross the road! Laughing
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Sethis



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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 11:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

gregory999 wrote:
Stuka wrote:
If I was an Asian parent, I might think of sending my kid to Australia or NZ and not London because the risks of being blown up would be lower in the Antipodes.

You are 1000 times more likely to be killed by a crocodile in Australia than by a bomb in London.
London is safe, and is full of tourists from all over the world.
Just watch the red bus when you cross the road! Laughing


I get the feeling that you've had a traumatic experience with a bus in the past... Wink

I would be more careful of Taxi drivers - they're the only people I've ever had a collision with!
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PostPosted: Thu May 12, 2016 10:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

IH Manchester pay 13 quid an hour, zero hour contracts.

I mean, why would you?
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Mr. Bourenmouth



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 10:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

gregory999 wrote:
Stuka wrote:
It won't be too long before schools and colleges(and universities) start importing Filipinos to teach ESL. Thailand imports them, why not the UK?

No way, the UK will not import anybody to teach ESL, we have plenty of our home English teachers, the market is fully booked, thank you. Very Happy



In any other industry, if you spent this much time and money on your training and education you'd be in the £40,000+ earning bracket, and the language schools know it.

In older established schools I see the majority of full-time teachers are over 50; there is hardly any new blood short of Poles masquerading as Brits, the usual run of oddballs who refuse to teach in conventional ways, and fresh faced CELTA graduates without degrees who haven't yet realised that they've been sold a lie and won't be able to obtain any long-term gainful work.


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Mr. Bourenmouth



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 02, 2016 11:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

johncoan wrote:
IH Manchester pay 13 quid an hour, zero hour contracts.

I mean, why would you?


Exactly. Why would you? There are so many other things that intelligent and hard-working graduates can do. The thing is, it's actually quite fun work, easy and providing the chance to meet a lot of interesting people, but it's necessary to supplement one's income by private work, online teaching, whatever. There is plenty of money to be made in the Middle East and Asia, but anyone expecting to be able to live a full life teaching TEFL full-time in the UK is deluded.
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