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SMOE Cancels 100 Jobs Then Pins The Blame on Teachers

By admin at 13 September, 2009, 2:42 pm

The Seoul education office withdrew employment notices sent to more than 50 native English speakers, inviting complaints from applicants who were supposed to start work at public schools in the city in the fall. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education (SMOE) Tuesday, it hired too many foreign English teachers to fill the 560 [...]

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ESL Teachers from Canada Quadruple

By admin at 6 September, 2009, 7:14 am

A growing number of recent graduates from Canadian universities are becoming English teachers overseas, discouraged by a tight job market during Canada’s deepest recession in decades. Teach Away, a Toronto-based agency that helps North Americans find teaching jobs overseas, says applications to teach English in Asia and elsewhere have jumped about 400 percent since late [...]

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