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いつものように夢庵を予約しました。See you tomorrow!
Tuesday 25 May 2010
Tuesday 4 May 2010
Tower English featured in Japan Times article today
We are rather proud today because The Japan Times used some quotes from an interview with me in an article about the collapse of GEOS and the eikaiwa industry. The reporter wanted to know what I thought about the business of running a conversation school in Japan. I said that it was a good business, but the big companies charged too much and demanded six or 12-month fees in advance from their customers (Tower English doesn't, but you already knew that!) Here's what I said in the article:
"There are two massive problems with eikaiwa policies: tie-ins (which commit students to staying at the same school for long lengths of time) and a complete lack of pricing transparency," says 39-year-old Patrick Sherriff, the founder of Tower English, a conversation school in Abiko, Chiba Prefecture. "It's ironic because they demand long-term commitment from their customers but, as many of our students have told us, they can't keep hold of their native English teachers."
"If you want to learn a language, would you be happy to pay for a year's tuition based on one trial lesson at a company that may go bankrupt? I wouldn't, and neither would our students," Sherriff adds.
The full article is here.
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