I worked for EF Changchun for more than three years and they provided everything promised according to the contract. The teachers do work many hours but it is only difficult if you are one of those people who consider a 40-hour week (i.e. normal working week) to be excessive. In my time there I found that whenever a teacher had a serious problem with the school, the truth of the matter was that the teacher in question was either lazy, incompetent, greedy or a combination of all three. The management were always reasonable with any teacher who did their work and by that I don't mean just turning up for lessons, I mean spending time on preparations and actually taking an interest in the education of students.

The ESL industry is littered with incompetent teachers and evil schools. There are also many excellent teachers and schools. I don't envy the schools who have to put up with new teachers who arrive without a clue and expect everything to be done for them just as I don't envy those teachers who arrive in bad schools.

I don't work for EF anymore, in fact I'm not even a teacher anymore but I am writing this because I know the history of that school over the last 4 years and I wasn't aware of a single unjustified case of a teacher being asked to leave.

I would recommend anybody looking for a job in China who is interested in developing their teaching skills to work there as they have the best facilities, experienced staff and a wide range of students.