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Why are there so many horrible teacher agencies out there?
posted 5th June 2009
Almost anyone can set up a teacher agency and provide teachers to schools. Many schools just don’t know where to turn in their quest to hire foreign staff so enter the agent who promises them the world and delivers someone who looks every inch the quintessential foreign teacher. I’m not tarring all agencies with the same brush here. Some agencies do care about the teacher’s development and progress and check on things from time to time, but for too many agencies, all they seem to be interested in is taking a cut of the teacher’s pay.
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