TEFL Scooby Doo, where are you?
Missing- One Subash Melwani and Two Advanced Institutes
Talking of Spain (see below), whatever happened to Advanced Institute in Fernandez de los Rios in Madrid? More important, what happened to the lovely filing system I set up there? Has my life’s work gone to waste???? Is my masterpiece no more?????
Not that this would be the first English school to disappear without trace, if in fact it hasn’t just changed name or something. In this case, the fact that there is nothing on the internet is probably a good sign. At least this school actually taught some students (very well when I was there!) unlike the “schools” in Spain that make their money offering Pakistanis jobs teaching English in Spain as long as they send a “small advance” to sort out their visas.
Anyhows, Scooby doobie doo- where are you? (What a prescient nickname by George Cloonie that turned out to be!)
Tags: Scams
October 4th, 2007 at 11:35 am
I heard he sold the business. Ben McVay told me, but I know not from whence he attained that information.
Last I heard of the AI was on the net a few years ago, Scooby was employing untrained teachers, and the pupil feedback was something like ‘teachers aren’t trained, but it’s nice to hear a regional English accent in conversation classes’! Shame really, it could’ve been great if he’d employed fully trained and experienced staff, new how to manage a business, and treated the receptionists nicely!!
October 10th, 2007 at 6:47 am
Thanks for the update (and nice summary of his business plan!), but all links for Advanced Institute on the Net are now dead, so where has Scooby run off to now??
Anyone else seen a slightly rumpled Subash Melwani anywhere?