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horace · Joined: 06 Jan 2006 Posts: 3 Location: Vancouver, BC

Hi,

I was surfing on the net for a TEFL certificate course and i came across this company (Oxford Seminars) that has a TEFL course. I was just wondering if anyone here attended their seminar or even actually attended the course could give me some feedbacks.

If i find them legit, i would be taking it in Vancouver, Canada.

Thanks in advance.

Horace

Andee · Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 12

I got my TESL through them, they are ligit.

HKBound05 · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 8

I also completed the Oxford Seminars TESL course in Calgary, Alberta as well as the Teaching English to Children Module from my home. The module gave me an extra 40 hours to bring the total up to 100 hours. The course is good but the job placement service is not worth it. I would only recommend this course to people who hold a bachelors degree or higher as the possibilities of finding employment with just this course are slim to none. Hope this helps!

tw · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 3898

Beware of Oxford Seminars job placement service for its graduates! You are better off finding a job yourself. I activated my job placement service in May and the so-called coordinator never took the initiative to contact me other than to confirm that she had received my activation and later, the documents needed to process my case. I was told a recruiter had been working on my behalf to find me a job but I never heard from this recruiter, or any others that the coordinator later told me she had given my documents to. When I e-mailed her, she told me that because (1) I was not a university degree holder and (2) because of my Chinese background the recruiter was having a difficult time finding positions for me. She also used this excuse that because I had "insisted" on working in Dalian it made things more difficult. That was of course a lie because I had only said that my preferance was Dalian, but never did I say Dalian ONLY. As for the no-degree and Chinese-face problems, I received plenty of job offers from my own job search and even had to turn down a few contracts before deciding on well-paying job in a northeastern Chinese university.

The Oxford Seminars course is useful for anyone without any teaching experience. To me it was just spending some money to buy a piece of paper in order to increase my marketability.