TAG : Teaching In Tokyo
Surviving Tokyo trains
A commuter's guide
In Blogs Archived: Steve Tainton - 1st June 2008
I hope that this quick tutorial will give you sporting chance should you step on a Tokyo rush hour train, but practice makes perfect so if you really want to get good you'll just have join the suffering masses and battle it out on a daily basis.
Tags: teaching in japan japanese culture teaching in tokyo commuting in japan japanese infrastructure tokyo trains
Nova no more
The collapse of a colossal language school
In Blogs Archived: Steve Tainton - 1st November 2007
Trouble has been brewing for a while. It's hard to designate any one point in time as being the beginning of the end. For that matter the first day of Nova operations could have been the beginning of the end much in the same way that a person is born only to follow a path leading inexorably toward death
Tags: teacher problems complaints nova language school teaching in japan g-communications eikaiwa schools teaching in tokyo teaching jobs in japan japanese students nova management
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