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jademonkey
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| TwinCentre wrote: |
| stillnosheep wrote: |
Ooops. Not quite true.
The police investigation into Nova is not simply into their practice of not re-embursing students who wish to quit, nor even of their practice of not reimbursing full-rate fees to students who have already 'enjoyed' cut-rate lessons (aka buying a six-pack, drinking one and wanting 83% of yr money back) but of Nova hard-selling expensive up-front payments from customers, then promptly closing the branch and refusing to re-imburse for lessons not given (aka fraud).
Nova's stock price (and capitalisation) has dropped 60% in the last year. Make of that what you will.
They are notorious as the worst of the big 4 eikaiwa (which is saying something in itself!) in terms of how they treat their teachers. Horror stories abound starting with their charming practice of renting rooms in shared apartments to teachers at rents up to 80% higher more than the company pays for the rooms as opposed to some other eikaiwa who will subsidise rents in high rent areas. |
Well, I started my ELT career with Nova 10 years ago. It is all a distant memory now, but it seems quite clear that nothing has changed.
New teachers, do yourself a favour! Get a TEFL certificate, then go and find a good school that develops your teaching. Do not make the mistake I feel that I made of starting unqualified/untrained, and simply learning Nova's fixed method. It really did feel like manual labour to me, and I wasted two years of my working life, in terms of development at least.. |
I wholeheartedly agree. I wasted 3 years though.  |
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