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Category Archives: Nova
Golly gosh, not Geos too??!
Two years after the demise of Nova, by far the biggest chain of Eikaiwa (English conversation) schools in Japan, rumours are that one of the remaining big three, Geos, is also showing signs of strain with late payment of wages, … Continue reading
Posted in Eikaiwa, Geos, Let's Japan, Nova, Teaching English in Japan
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How teaching English can save your life Quote of the Day
“I will practice my English with you, if you will do me the honor” “You keep alive just to practice your English?” Ken Watanabe and Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai, enacting a scene set 130 years before Nova teachers … Continue reading
Posted in History of English teaching in Japan, Let's Japan, Nova, Teaching English in Asia, Teaching English in Japan, TEFL blogs
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2007- A year in Eikaiwa
2007 was yet another year in which the world of TEFL made its way into the consciousness of the general public for all the wrong reasons (a crack down on teachers in Korea, English teaching sex offenders etc. etc), and … Continue reading
Not new news on Nova,…
…but nicely summarized. I take it all back about Time magazine. It may not be the Economist or L’Express, or even El Pais Sunday magazine, but they have managed the article about Nova from a publication outside Japan with least … Continue reading
Is a good teacher really a good investment?
Amongst the doom and gloom that is the Lets Japan blog since the collapse of Nova became fact and there became nothing left to speculate about, comes possibly the only glimmer of hope that doesn’t involve thousands of refugee teachers … Continue reading
What can we all learn from Nova?
Although Nova (not long ago the dominant presence in conversation schools in Japan) might still manage to save itself, I can imagine there are many teachers who are now wishing they were no longer working or had never worked for … Continue reading
The very newest news on Nova- SuperNOVA turns into a black hole
Anyone who has been following the death throes of the pink bunny surely know by now that Nova has gone belly up, but I think I will be ahead of everyone else with this news report: The Education Ministry has … Continue reading
Posted in Nova, Teaching English in Japan
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Stranded Australians
The Australian press continue to give more coverage to the collapsing Nova story than even newspapers in Japan. I confidently predict that the next publication to cover the story will be the London Evening Standard, worried that the oversupply of … Continue reading
Posted in Nova, Teaching English in Asia, Teaching English in Japan, TESOL
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No no, no no no no no, no no no no no, there's no Nova*
About the only good news in the fading away of Nova (the MacDonalds of English conversation Eikaiwa schools in Japan) is that the Japanese press seem to be working themselves up to a wolf-like group decision that Mr Monkeybridge (Sahashi-san), … Continue reading
Even newer new Nova news
As if in a deliberate attempt to prove the straight talking Aussie stereotype, Australian Foreign Affairs minister Alexander Downer has decided he knows what we were all wondering about, that Nova is about to go down the toilet. Well, having … Continue reading
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