As a teacher for languagelink last year I can say I only had good experiences at the schools! Actually, as many of the management are foreigners I found it a lot easier to deal with than many of the schools i have worked for in china.

I have been teaching english for 8 years and have worked in 4 different countries, I've been in china 2 years already, I can definitely say that the management have been some of the easiest i've had to deal with! Many are foreigners which has made it much easier to deal with any issues. Although i speak intermediate level chinese there is still a big difference in management styles between foreigners and chinese, and i'm sad to say it does take some getting used to for many people! :-P Having the foreign study directors has helped a lot to smooth things over between a western and chinese style of working.

As the poster says - no problem with payment on time, which is a big plus in china! They never try to cheat you and have a western attitude of honesty to management which is a breath of fresh air in china. It's true we werent provided with laptops but i have NEVER been provided with a laptop by a school before! in 8 years! The materials at the schools are actually really good, much better than most other schools here. And although we were contracted for 40 office hours a week our study directors are very relaxed about this and we were never made to keep this up - this is completely different to most schools with office hours that i've worked for here who have always had me sitting in the office doing nothing just to make-up the hours! At languagelink they have always been understanding if i've had no classes and want to go home early.

I'm honestly really confused by this post and can only assume this must be a single disgruntled teacher with a chip on their shoulder! This was not my experience at all! Hopefully some other ex-languagelink school teachers will also put their reviews here.

These TEFL school blacklists are really useful and should be for schools that are really bad! (believe me there are plenty of them in china!) Using this forum to vent your personal vendettas is selfish and misleading for people trying to find jobs in china.