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Miyazaki
Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 635 Location: My Father's Yacht
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 2:24 pm Post subject: Nova: Australians Half of Foreign Staff |
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The Toronto Star reports that nearly half of the 4,000 Nova teachers are Australian.
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The chain offered classes in conversational English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Chinese. It recruited teachers at university campuses in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., and Australia, which supplied nearly half its foreign staff. |
A little over 600 teachers were from Canada.
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...660 from Canada, are without jobs after Japan's largest school chain, Nova Group, closed its 900 schools and declared bankruptcy yesterday. |
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Never Ceased To Be Amazed

Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 3500 Location: Shhh...don't talk to me...I'm playin' dead...
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 3:14 am Post subject: |
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Yup, and with "Working Visas", not one of them were required to have been anywhere past high school!
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chollimaspeed

Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Posts: 120
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:05 am Post subject: |
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Never Ceased To Be Amazed wrote: |
Yup, and with "Working Visas", not one of them were required to have been anywhere past high school!
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Working Holiday Visas. Although I have heard NOVA still required two years of post-high school education. |
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Guy Courchesne

Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:14 am Post subject: |
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I wonder if Nova has plans to re-open under protection, and if so, what kind of difficulties they would have in keeping existing staff, or locating more. It's not exactly like you can pull 4,000 teachers out of a hat on short notice. |
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GambateBingBangBOOM
Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 2021 Location: Japan
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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 4:27 am Post subject: |
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You can when you stranded 4000 of them on a gaijin island a month ago with only one or two dingy's and a can a' beans between them. |
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