Alex Case reviews the year over on the ever excellent TEFLTastic blog:

2007 was yet another year in which the world of TEFL made its way into the consciousness of the general public for all the wrong reasons (a crack down on teachers in Korea, English teaching sex offenders etc. etc), and Japan did its fair share of damage to our industry’s repuation too:

The biggest TEFL story of all was almost certainly the collapse of Nova, once by far the biggest chain of language schools in Japan. The good news is that G Com is planning to restart a good proportion of the schools and take on quite a few of the teachers, but of course that has not made it into the Australian, Canadian etc. newspapers that covered the collapse. The fact that their complete lack of a plan has already led to them going back on their promises on rehiring may yet do.

Read the full TEFLTastic article. 

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