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prufrock
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 Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:23 pm Post subject: westgate? |
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| anybody know anything good or bad about this company/school? thanks a lot. |
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prufrock
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| Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:25 pm Post subject: uh, nevermind...... |
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i'll read the threads first  |
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PAULH
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Western Japan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:07 am Post subject: Re: westgate? |
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| prufrock wrote: |
| anybody know anything good or bad about this company/school? thanks a lot. |
Dispatch company that send teachers to work in kindergartens elementary schools and universities
3 month contract but you get a year-long sponsored visa.
2 month break between renewal of each contract.
University teaching program is not university teaching. Westgate teachers are not university teachers or professors. They are eikaiwa teachers working on a university campus. Their employer is Westgate, not the university.
Housing provided but said to be very pricey.
OK if you want to to have a slice of Japanese culture but not the whole pie. 3 months is not really long enough to get homesick or experience culture shock. |
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Brooks
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Location: Sagamihara
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:46 am Post subject: |
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last time I heard, housing was 70,000 a month.
I knew a teacher who lived in a 3LDK with two other teachers.
It was furnished with a couch and a large kitchen. The place was near the railroad so it got kind of noisy but I guess they got used to it. |
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Sweetsee
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 5:13 am Post subject: |
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| One of the exits at the station? |
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cornishmuppet
Joined: 27 Mar 2004
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Location: Nagano, Japan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:16 am Post subject: |
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| I know of one person who did it and one person doing it now. Apparently you teach the same lesson plan five or six times a day. Probably easy, but might be quite boring. |
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Brooks
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 8:54 am Post subject: |
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exactly. The guy I knew was working for Westgate in Kanagawa.
He was in the middle of a MA in TESOL and the work at Westgate counted for an internship in his degree program.
He found the work dull but he was interested in working in Japan.
Overall, he was positive. |
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prufrock
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 9:31 am Post subject: thanks a lot |
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| I appreciate the information. That was cool of you guys, considering there are already a million threads where many of you have already invested time on these same questions! I will SEARCH first next time. Cheers! A round on me if I land in any of your cities ; ) |
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scrying
Joined: 14 Nov 2004
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Location: Nagoya Japan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 10:01 am Post subject: more on westgate |
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Hi,
I've read through the forum til my head started hurting, but a lot of the information didn't seem applicable (ie dated, hearsay, or in a locked forum) to the program I applied for with Westgate (it's their new E-Learning thing)...is there anyone out there who's trying it now and want to drop some insight? the contract is longer, which might make that 2 month gap a bit easier to deal with, but i can't find any current info on this visitor curfew crud...is it still in effect? I'm supposed to hear from them by Friday, and i'd like to take the gig if it's kosher enough to get me through for awhile (I'm looking to save for a MA TEFL/TESOL or DELTA now)...
cheers
Will t |
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