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Avoid!! - Online ESL Teacher British Council Employee Review

1.0
Jul 22, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

I can't say there are any

Cons

You are treated with such contempt, they have a very undignified system they give a date & time for all tutors at the same time to 'assign them selves lessons' which means around 300 tutors are frantically clicking away at slots desperately trying to get some lessons for that week, and if you are in a lesson at the time of the so called 'drop' you don't have the chance to assign your self any lessons so you have no work for that week. They have too many tutors and not enough classes so the best option for them is let the teachers fight it out amongst themselves. Even though teachers have complained about the system time and again it falls on deaf ears. The teacing material is terribly, usually the material is the wring level for the student or students are put in the wrong level class, you tell the managers and they do nothing about it. I'm not sure who puts the teacing material together but it's awful , I feel sorry for the poor students. Pay is very poor and no cares when you ask why teachers are not getting a well deserved pay rise.

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Pros

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Cons

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4.0
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Pros

Free to work whenever you want

Cons

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