Want to improve the professional image of TEFL courses?
How about 15% off for a limited time only for a slogan for an educational organisation? Not good enough, well here’s 25% off (or 30% off, depending on which part of the page you look at) from our old friends at i-t- i.
No? Remind you too much of a teleshopping channel selling fake diamonds? How about “We’ll price match your accredited course and give you a free course book as well when you enrol”?
Double glazing salesman, you say? I think you’ll find that all good university and PGCE courses use exactly the same tactics (“Cheaper than any other degree in the North, or seven free bottles Newcastle Brown beer in Freshers’ Week”)*
*The last one is made up. The others, unfortunately, are not.
April 1st, 2009 at 10:10 am
I was really hoping you had a suggestion.
How about a TEFL trade union?
April 1st, 2009 at 6:10 pm
OMG. What’s next? A clearance sale?
April 2nd, 2009 at 12:21 pm
ALEX CASE the fundamental CONDUIT of villification and poltroonery throughout THE KNOWN WORLD, why don’t you TWITTER some more on your oh so well established blog and LET US INTO THE SECET of your inimitable WRITING STYLe FULL as it is of slander, HATE CRIME and hidden MESSAGES which only your knock-kneed disciples CAN DIVINE. BUT you won’t EVEN post this because YOU are a COWARD and a FAILURE
April 2nd, 2009 at 7:32 pm
as if it weren’t seedy enough already, the screen name of the person who posted the “price-matching” certificate course ad is “thailanddelights”, which brings to mind widely held images of thailand totally unrelated to its TEFL industry, if you get me…
April 4th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Hi Mr Paul Lowe, good to hear from you. Even better to see how active the Dave’s thread on Windsor TEFL is:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?p=734159
Seeing how easy it is to get a thread deleted on Dave’s, that must mean you have absolutely no friends at all
April 6th, 2009 at 7:47 am
My word, I looked at the thread and it’s still there. Paul Lowe must have refused to pay Dave’s extortionate fee, or perhaps this is part of the deal Dave made with TEFL International.
Nice to see Sperling does have a limit, even if it is way below gutter level.
May 29th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
as if it weren’t seedy enough already, the screen name of the person who posted the “price-matching” certificate course ad is “thailanddelights”, which brings to mind widely held images of thailand totally unrelated to its TEFL industry, if you get me…
What’s seedy about thailand delights?
Maybe it brings the wrong images to your mind.Which really doesn’t say too much about you and your character does it now?
Then again if that’s what your looking for, and you always get more of what you focus on! In your case the bad/negative in a situation, that’s what you’ll get.
Have a nice life.
May 30th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
I must say that I instantly thought that it was a bad choice of name for anything serious and/ or respectable
Ditto for “IslandTEFL”, an organisation that I know nothing about but would instantly reject for its nomenclature
May 30th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Well that as it may be Alex. People shouldn’t just jump to knee jerk conclusions. Thailanddelights is my main site along with a few others minor ones, and when I post on the other sites it automatically signs the post as Thailand delights. Hence the signature on that particular site.
I could change it but I really don’t want to now.It’s good as it stands and the search engines seem to pick up on it. So nothing bad or seedy meant with that name.
June 6th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
How about having end-of-course feedback all available online, unedited?
How about having all moderation reports available for public inspection?
Sorry for a real reply. :)
June 7th, 2009 at 12:59 am
I think you are replying to the wrong post, Bruce. I imagine you ended up here due to a Google Alert on TEFL International, so why haven’t you commented on the latest piece of disgraceful marketing from your organisation?