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[ubik24]

Firstly, I want to say that Valencia is a lovely city and I hope this doesn't put anyone off teaching there. Now, that out of the way, lets get down to the nitty gritty. I worked for Inlingua who are a reputable school and are a well known academy around the world. However their school in Valencia was the most unprofessional institution I have worked for. During my 8 month stint 9 teachers I knew of left. This turnover in itself highlights that there were problems. So, where to start, well basically the teachers were treated like dogs. There was no respect ever from anyone in this academy except from one recepionist who left after 2 months. We had to nearly beg for our money outside the director's office, wait up to an hour at times, and were constantly fobbed off coming back different days to get money. Another issue was that within the academy no one spoke English and I had okay Spanish. This was a joke and made a complicated situation even more fustrating. The DOS was not even a DOS, she had no teaching experience and came from a business background. She caused alot of teachers serious headaches with her incompetance. Often, I was at a business in the city where I had a business class that the business had cancelled but the school had failed to inform me. No sorry or apology when this happened.
Whatever about the Inlingua method which I found crap they had no materials for the business English classes. They sometimes had one headway book for a certain level but no cd for listening and no teacher books. A shambles. I told them about this often but they never did anything about it. Luckily I have some good books and materials of my own which I used. Not that this mattered because we were never checked up on so we could have been doing anything. There was no weekly meetings. No constructive communication. The school only got business beacuse of the Inlingua name. I know that this is a franchise and its the people not the brand that are accountable but I'm getting in touch with Inlingua headquarters to alert them about these guys. Any one to one students I taught at the school wanted me to teach them outside of the school because they didn't like the school and dealing with the administration. Re the money I did get paid into my bank account (a week and a half into the month) but I got my travel expenses in cash as they didn't pay tax on that. Every month was a pain trying to collect this and dealing with their avoidance. Our last months wages I collected in cash as my girlfirend worked some hours there too. They tried to tell me vehemently that one month was paid and had actually forged the receipt to prove this. It was laughable. I asked to see the receipt which was really badly forged, I pointed out this while maintaining my cool, then the boss was fussing around and then gave me the money. I was lucky because I heard that some teachers have not been paid their last months wages from them. I never lost it at them in the school beacuse it was too surreal. Hopefully Inlingua head honchos will sort these cowboys out after I email them. Avoid them at all costs

[sheikh radlinrol]

[DosEquisX]

I just got a job offer from them. Has this academy changed at all?

They asked 2-3 questions before introducing the "Inlingua Method" which seems to be an already existing method (direct method?) only with a marketable name. I was quite surprised to see them essentially offer me the job immediately after the interview. I get suspicious when that happens because it implies that they have no standards set for their teachers and will take anybody.

The pay is 11.50 Euros/hour before taxes which is the lowest offer I have seen since I came here. So yeah, not that sold at the moment.