[Inenuedbabnor]

The past few years has seen a tremendous boom in the amount of so-called teacher training courses on offer. Quantity therefore means lack of actual quality and i can tell you that a lot of the courses now available are not up to standard.

Ive seen loads-a teachers over the past few years, who even though having passed one of these courses, were pretty crappo, to say the least, in class. Its been my pleasure too, to have fired a couple from their job.

Please also bear in mind that most of the courses (especially the cheaper ones) offer a qualification that is worth nowt outside of say south-east asia. Some courses advertise to the likes of 'Guaranteed by the Min of Education'! Oooooh sounds splendid, but....show that off to an employer in Taiwan and he'll laugh you out the backdoor.

The best courses offered are the internationally recognized ones. Then some of the institutes actually fool some teachers into the authenticity of their certificates with the likes of 'University of Middlesex' etc... Do a google search on any of these so-called places and you'll realize that some universities have nothing whatsoever to do with these so-called teacher training institutes. ie. its a money-making scam!

Absolutely, the best certificates on offer here are the 'Celta' ones. Not only are the ones issued here 'international' but on graduation and a year or so of experience you can go on to study for a 'Delta' and even on to a B-Ed.

Next, are the authentic TEFL ones and not a TEFL wanna-be course.

If you just want a certificate just for show when applying for a job, then you may as well just do the cheapest and shortest one there is available, as most Thai schools havent the foggiest to which is 'better'.