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JoeInIstanbul · Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Istanbul Turkey

Hello.. can anyone privide any information on Wall Street Institute? I am considering a position with that company and would appreciate any information.. positive or negative about their schedules, teacher responsibilities, honesty, flexibility, etc.. etc.. Thank you

JoeInIstanbul · Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Istanbul Turkey

Hey... İ see many lookers but no one is replying... HELP!!!!! İf anyone knows anything about Wall Street... tell me... Question

vre · Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 371

I'm sure people would reply if they knew something. I know nothing!!!!!!!!!!

molly farquharson · Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 839 Location: istanbul

This is what I know about Wall St. They are a spin-off of Berlitz. Students work on computers and can "book" a live teacher for an hour every 2 weeks. There are a few activities with live teachers, maybe an hour a week. It's spendy. Some students do well with it, as it can be done at their own convenience. I suspect others don't do so well with it.
I have no idea what it is like from the teachers' point of view.
Good luck if you go there.

preston · Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 107

In Spain they became massive very quickly due to heavy aggressive salesmen bullying people to sign up in their homes. Once they signed up, they realised they'd actually signed a credit agreement with a bank which meant they had to pay for a year's course in advance. Unfortunately people got tired of doing glorified Murphy-type exercises on computers and dropped out. Consequently branches started closing down with no advance warning, leaving students with huge debts for unfinished courses They were legally obliged to keep paying, sometimes for years, for courses that they were never going to receive. And the teachers suddenly found themselves in the street with no warning either, sometimes they were owed months of back salaries. So in Spain they have a terrible reputation. Now they are here in Istanbul.
If you work for them, you will have to work 6 days a week with your off-day monday to friday. You will have to pay to sort out your work permit. And the job has about as much to do with teaching as working in Burger King. Avoid them like the plague

teacherdude · Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 260

I have seven odd years of experience...yet they offered me 1.4 billion TL...today that would be 1, 400 TL.

I do know that a few teachers who couldn't cut it where I worked got jobs there.

There is very little actual teaching done.

The students work on computers and you have a chat with them covering what they have done...a few odd times a week.

Not good for people who actually want to learn HOW to speak Eng.

Saw their facility it was quite modern and snazzy looking.

If they are still offering the same kind of money...then u can certainly do better.

TD

ekmekparasi · Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 63

spendier than ef?