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paulmanser
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 Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:47 pm Post subject: Enhanced Disclosures for TEFL applicants |
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| Surely such checks are made for TEFL applicants. How long do they usually take?. (Working with children/adults ect.) |
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cezarek
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They aren't made at the moment. Under current (in fact recent) UK law, police checks and similar are the responsibility of the employer, with certain exceptions; notably state-sector pre-18 education. The current legislation concerns children and 'vulnerable adults'. TEFL covers a very broad range of students/clients, and it would not be suitable to insist on pre-checking before tefl courses. Also, it would be a matter for individual countries in which the teacher is employed to make their own regulations about checking.
But there are some pretty hair-raising stories about certain efl teachers, particularly in the far east.
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paulmanser
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Wouldn't it be a big concern for China. Since China hires TEFL teachers for children in China.
Criminal record checks of some kind should be used in every TEFL teacher case, in my opinion. |
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paulmanser
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| Posted: Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Safety goes for TEFL teachers working along other staff too. |
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cezarek
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| paulmanser wrote: |
Wouldn't it be a big concern for China. Since China hires TEFL teachers for children in China.
Criminal record checks of some kind should be used in every TEFL teacher case, in my opinion. |
But the checks are a matter for the employer/country in which the teaching happens.
EFL is a very mobile profession. People come from somewhere, ie. UK; teach somewhere else, e.g. Japan; do a tefl in a third place, e.g. Prague; then go and teach, for example in Finland.
It wouldn't be practical for Cambridge/Trinity to insist on their worldwide centres getting police checks - such a thing may not exist in the country in question, or exist in a very different form. And what to do about a British person who goes to Krak�w to do the CELTA?
And for that matter, what on earth has it to do with the future employer of an in-company Business English teacher (and would they care) whether or not that person has been bound over to keep the peace ten years before for attending a demo or cottaging or hotwiring their electric meter?
Remember, EFL is often training rather than education, and the teachers are far less often in the type of position of moral responsibility that, for example, a UK based primary teacher is. |
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