Beelzebub
- 2013-04-18
Yes, that's one of several practical options. Another option may be that all private training centres be required to become accredited by an independent peer organization like colleges and unis in the USA. Accreditation criteria could be tailored to the special situation in the ESL industry. The latter is still highly unregulated, and there is no real control, and that is why so many crap pretend "schools" are allowed to exist.
Here we go again, trying to tell the Chinese how to run their own country. Anyway, for God's sake, all most of us FT's in China are is just oral English teachers- hardly qualified enough to organise a piss-up in a brewery, let alone a new education system for 50 billion Chinese- am I right or am I right?
MikeK
- 2013-04-18
Yes, that's one of several practical options. Another option may be that all private training centres be required to become accredited by an independent peer organization like colleges and unis in the USA. Accreditation criteria could be tailored to the special situation in the ESL industry. The latter is still highly unregulated, and there is no real control, and that is why so many crap pretend "schools" are allowed to exist.
Interesting idea... But juanisaac also says about corruption and "coffee money"... So maybe the US Colleges and Unis should one their own "branch schools" then quality standards will be met. Such schools could train and employ the teachers directly without Recruitment Spivs or TEFL/TESOL Clown Schools - this means any pedo teachers would be subject to greater scrutiny and face justice faster.
And my bulldozer gets some use too to clear the way for these "proper" schools..