Here's another interesting fact about Hampson schools which I haven't seen mentioned anywhere yet.

For those of us unlucky enough to have worked/be working there, I am sure people must have noticed the quality of the teaching materials they procure...

What I mean is this. They have books by Longman/Pearson, Cambridge Uni Press etc. right. Very often I have opened a book and found it to be very badly printed, pages upside down, missing, printed offset or not cut properly. I have also noticed some of the books displaying another schools logo, then another, then another depending on which box they came from. Also the CD's have sometimes looked like something you bought from a street vendor. I have even had students come back telling me the lesson they tried to complete was not on the CD!!!!

Now I am pretty sure someone like Cambridge and Longman are not so unprofessional as to constantly issue material in this state so what is going on. I figured it out, or at least I have two working theories.

They are either forgeries being printed up in some back street printers and sold on or they are rejects which are being sent back because of all the errors.

I think the latter as that would explain why Hampson have books with New Orientals logo on them, then sometimes other training centers. In the UK these books would probably be recycled. In China of course people are not going to throw away the means to make a fast buck and must be selling them on to places like this at a cheaper price.

The other thing of course is that we all know that Hampson sell those books to the students at full price. Full price for a badly printed mess which may or may not have the additional material required to complete the course. Nice!!! Its comforting to know that they put so much care and thought into their students lessons.

WORKED THERE - HATED IT - HATED THEM - LEFT THEM - NEVER HAPPIER