CELTA Interview Fees
Despite a few encouraging remarks on the Rave’s Cafe Teacher Training forum and from Sandy below, I am still quite suprised that no one else is as outraged as me about Cambridge allowing non-refundable “application fees” etc to be taken off people taking the CELTA course. Maybe I am turning into the “One Foot in the Grave”-style grumpy old man of TEFL…
“I can’t believe it!” is about right, but rather than using an annoying catchphrase, I have decided to wear the resistance of everyone down on this topic with dodgy metaphors instead. Here comes the first one, and they will keep on coming until at least 20 people leave messages of support in the comments boxes of this and similar posts-
Imagine the new Alfa Romeo looking so desirable that the management of the company thinking they can force all prospective customers to take a test drive for an unrefundable fee of 50 pounds. Should a customer then buy the car, the 50 quid will be taken off the price. Should the prospective customer realise instead that the new Alfa is just a typical piece of all style and no function Italian crap (much more likely) they will be 50 pounds out of pocket. Would there not be consumer outrage? Would the authorities in charge of regulating that area of business not step in at least with a statement of dissatification?
That is the situation with many (although by no means most) CELTA course providers now. And as someone whose patriotism has been recently surprisingly stirred by the success of “our” Lewis Hamilton in F1, I at least hope we can stop English Language House of Milton Keynes charging it and so keep our shores clean of this nasty American habit. Then we can get round to banning baseball caps and slouching later…
