I have just been informed by one of our successful candidates whos going out to china, about some forums.

Just to put the record straight, here at Pod Travel and Teach we have never used any other names or companies. We have always been and always will be known as POD Travel & Teach. We have been going since 2007 where we have been working with Chinese educational clients and been placing people from other companies throughout the world.

It has only been since September that we have now the full knowledge that we can select the right clients to work with in China, as well as selecting the right committed and mature clients in the UK.

We had originally placed around only 35 people for a trial period of up to 3 months at a time. This has only been done to ensure that we can cope on a much larger scale as we are now looking for 75 people to go out in the February & March period just after the Chinese New Year. We offer full Visa costs as well as return airfare refunds to people who complete a 12 month term. We dont offer nor guarantee any refunds if someone does a only a 6 month term, as this differentiates the genuine and committed candidates from the rest.

As a company we never charge a single penny for our cultural exchange programs. The vast majority of the companies that work in this field always charge a high one off fee, or some kind of application fee. Since we dont charge these fees that others do, it has made us very successful in what we do. This I would imagine makes a lot of people jealous, hence the unfair comments. Furthermore people would say that if you dont charge any fees to the applicants then how do you make your money. Well each Chinese client that we place people at, have an annual budget fund and thats where we get our fees from; the Chinese companies that we work with.

People who arent always successful in their application with us or someone from other competition that might be writing all these unfair comments. It might be even young kids pretending to be several people writing these comments. In the end truth always prevails.

At the same time any small, medium, or large company, whether its M&S, Virgin Atlantic, or Thomas Cook arent perfect, I would be the first person to say that any ones perfect.

Always remember that you should never pay any money for a cultural exchange program abroad whether its in France, Japan, South Korea, or China.

Vicky At Pod Travel & Teach and we dont go by any other names.