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TECO
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 11:18 am Post subject: 5,000 English Teachers Lose Jobs in Japan |
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The pink usagi is dead.
The president has absconded to Hawaii.
All Nova assets have been froze by the courts.
Stiffing about 5,000 teachers and 2,000 J-staff with unpaid salaries and about 400,000 students who have paid for English lessons. Nice.
Nova's Ova!
That's a sheit load of TEFL'ers hitting the streets in Japan without jobs.
Not a good time maybe for Korean based TEFL'ers to be making the move over to Japan.
My guess is that a lot of these English teachers in Japan will either head over to Korea, Taiwan, or China or simply go back home.
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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There goes the neighborhood. |
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Woden
Joined: 08 Mar 2007
Location: Eurasia
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:02 pm Post subject: Re: 5,000 English Teachers Lose Jobs in Japan |
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| TECO wrote: |
The pink usagi is dead.
The president has absconded to Hawaii.
All Nova assets have been froze by the courts.
Stiffing about 5,000 teachers and 2,000 J-staff with unpaid salaries and about 400,000 students who have paid for English lessons. Nice.
NOVA Japan: Nova's Ova!
That's a sheit load of TEFL'ers hitting the streets in Japan without jobs.
Not a good time maybe for Korean based TEFL'ers to be making the move over to Japan.
My guess is that a lot of these English teachers in Japan will either head over to Korea, Taiwan, or China or simply go back home. |
It might not be as bad as that because the other schools will want to take up Nova's lost market share. They will probably try and expand massively and even take up Nova's old premises.
Lots will come to Korea, and go elsewhere, but I don't think it will be drastic. All the big language schools are year round recruiting from overseas, it could mean they just step down these recruitments for a while, soaking some more of these jobless up... |
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Alexander
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:03 pm Post subject: Re: 5,000 English Teachers Lose Jobs in Japan |
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| TECO wrote: |
My guess is that a lot of these English teachers in Japan will either head over to Korea, Taiwan, or China or simply go back home. |
This could be disaster for those of us looking to make the move to Korea in the new year! Now we'll have to compete with plane/boat loads of NOVA teachers!
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GreenlightmeansGO
Joined: 11 Dec 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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Alexander, if you are worried you can just get a job now and avoid the rush.
Also, I think that any scurry to leave Japan will be over by the new year and situations would have settled again.
It must suck being an (ex)Nova teacher right now. I hope they come out of it okay (the workers, I mean). |
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little mixed girl
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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but the eikaiwa market is still big in japan.
lots of places are asking for native speakers to teach, and lots of places are still passing out fliers for eikaiwa...i just got one yesterday. |
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dmbfan
Joined: 09 Mar 2006
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Well, it is unfortunate that this happened.
However, there is going to be a hangover from all of this.
5,000 teachers needing a job in Japan. Japan is more competitive than Korea, in terms of qualifcations experience and actually knowing how to run a classroom (but it is also way behind Korea, in terms of the ESL system...........).
So, this means the the schools that are hiring will NOT have to be forced to offer an above average salary, or even an average salary. This is too bad for the teachers, but good for the schools.
But, a lot of teachers here do like Japan, and may stay. If not, there possibly could be a huge migration to Korea.............
This will be interesting.
dmbfan
P.S............go Red Sox. |
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