English First – Beijing

See: http://ef-hangzhou-china.blogspot.com/ for the full article.

Recent news is that EF Beijing has had to dismiss several members of staff, due to the not being able to apply for residency visas. EF in general has a very lax policy against hiring qualified teachers. Many of the teachers working in EF do not have proper teaching assessed TEFLs and go to China with online TEFL's. Whilst there is nothing wrong with this, there is a significant difference between the two. Firstly, the cost. The cost of an online TEFL is around £150 and the cost of a full 4 week TEFL course with teaching practice is around £1600 pounds.

At present, internal affairs are keeping this very hush hush on this side of the world and they are trying their best not to leak this information. However, I was lucky enough to obtain this information from a reputable source in China.