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Re: English Council (Questions About Schools)
By/Re:J
4 December 2009
In Response To: English Council (Emary)

I've had a look at the site, but a few things seem very suspicious to me:
1) They claim to be founded in 2000, yet the blog posts all start in November 2009 and I can find absolutely no information about them anywhere else (except a couple of posts ("recommendations") here, also dated November 2009)
2) The link to "exams/ curriclum" (their spelling mistake, not mine) goes to an error message
3) Their photos, which do not appear, are from a Summer Camp in 2004 (!) Have they done nothing else all these years?
4) They claim to have "five hours of observed/monitored classroom/online teaching time (Trainer observing your lesson) Teaching learners of various levels. To include: Lesson planning and monitored feedback. Part three: consists of ten hours of classroom/online teaching time. Teaching either Speakers of Other Language or ones from your own language how wish to learn or improve their English in one-to-one and mixed lessons, with lesson planning and student feedback." And all this for £150? Sounds too good to be true!
5)There is no mention of who the tutors are.

Those are just a few observations from a brief look around. This site smells like a scam to me!






Messages In This Thread

English Council -- Emary 17 November 2009
Re: English Council (Questions About Schools) -- J 4 December 2009
Re: English Council -- cunning linguist 2 January 2010

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