Common doctor esl teacher! They've had their own books for general courses and more than adequate foreign business books, plenty of suplementary material related to course books, real attempts to place prospective students and strives to have foreign directors to run academics at centers. Few, if any, centers've wanted to accept foreign DoSs for real, serious placement testing, foreign academic operations manager's annual audit or royalty fees to the franchisor which they've so awfully cheated on. The fact is that to be in EF franchisors bent over to the filthy local market. If EF didn't come, someone else, perhaps local educational fools, would to fill in the gap. There are people, period of time and circumstances that have caused this downfall but the doctor that turns on eslteachersboard debates about language training centers on mainland China knows EF from reading on the internet only.

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