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[thefuzz]

A friend of mine wants to get his TESOL certificate onsite here in China before embarking on a job. I was looking around the internet and found a training center in Zhuhai. Here is the link to the school:

http://www.tefllife.com/zhuhai-china

Has anyone ever studied there? Any opinions (both positive and negative)? Are there any other TESOL training centers in China that my friend might consider...he is not too bothered about location, he just wants the best training for the money.

I'm trying to help him out, but any feedback from the community would be most appreciated.

BTW: tired to search the forum, but for some reason couldn't get the search results to load up. Might be something with my connection.

[7969]

this thread indicates that one member, time to teach, has some knowledge of the tefl training in zhuhai:

TEFL/TESOL certificate help

Try contacting him/her for more info.

[champ]

Three of my friends did TEFL from that center,and a couple of them worked there,but left within 8 weeks.This is what they told me:

1 Chinese and 1 Australian tutor.The moderator is from Canada,but she has no education.The course is pretty average.It gives you some practice to teach kids.The facilities like dormitory,lunch,dinner etc are appalling.My friends would not recommend that center to anyone.If you need more info,I can email my pals.

[thefuzz]

@7969

Thanks for the link...will check it out.

@champ

Sorry to hear your friends had a bad experience there. There is no need to email them...from your response it is quite clear that the place in Zhuhai is a joke. I am now searching the internet trying to find some other place in China that offers TESOL at a decent price without the hassles. Cheers and thanks for the information.

BTW: if anyone does know any other TESOL certification courses in China please do let me know. Thanks in advance.

[Baozi man]

Any particular reason you want to remain in China for TESOL/TEFL? Why not try Thailand?

[thefuzz]

[thefuzz]

Anyone have experience training with this company?

http://www.intesoltesoltraining.com/onsite_china.htm

Seems like they offer a course in China as well. If anyone has any feedback on this outfit, please share. As stated above Thailand would be an option, but if there is a good course provider in China, it would make more sense to do the course here since my friend intends to work in China.

[Baozi man]

OP, I'm not so sure it makes more sense to do anything in China, if there are other options. Made for internal consumption in China usually translates into rubbish.

A couple of Chinese guys find a foreigner to act as a shill and open a TEFL training center. Of course. What better way to rip off foreigners? Reading the above posts, sounds like someone is already onto it.

"Education" in China is an entirely different enterprise than in other places. Particularly for the young and restless, it's just another scam.

CELTA training used to be available in Thailand, probably still is.

[AdrianG4]

I did my course with INTESOL in Mexico - not China

It's not China, but it was still ok. Maybe the China one's good.

[thefuzz]

[thefuzz]