gevu run by a few phd students at sussex university in england ought to be shut down for fraud. they do a lousy job, and it upsets me that they make teachers more cautious about going to teach in china.

why should you avoid them?
1. like a lot of smaller agencies they lie in their adverts. "shanghai/beijing/shenzhen, 6000+ a month" - location and money - it seems to be too good to be true-and it is. There's always a catch. The school doesn't exist and you are farmed to a crummy private language school, or else you are asked to pay a heck of a lot of money for the placement.

2. they share the details of your cv with 3rd parties. Look at the chinese version of their website (click top-right) and you'll see thousands of CVs they've put up. Absolutely criminal. they do this as a marketing ploy to lure in any old school to work with them. they probably never even check the credentials of the schools.

search on the web and you'll find plenty of unhappy people who have been thru gevu. gevu aren't really interested in promoting english in china and cultural exchange. Sad thing is they are dealing with people who have a genuine interest in china.

i have tried to be objective here, and if it sounds bad, it is because it is bad. unlike gevu i'm being truthful.

their website is:
www.gevu.org