Hire qualified English teachers

With the increasing need for English tutoring in China, foreign teachers, especially native English speakers, are widely seen as a major indicator when evaluating a English training school. Therefore, higher standards must apply to the selection of foreign tutors in order to screen out those that are not qualified to be tutors, says an article on Guangzhou Daily. Excerpts:

Foreign language teachers in Beijing are now required to show genuine language teaching qualifications or have five years or more relevant work experience.

This policy change is seen as a necessary response to the current chaotic situation in the private English teaching industry, particularly the poor management of foreign teachers. On the one hand, the tuition fees can be unreasonably high, simply because there are Western faces in the class; on the other hand, incompetent foreigners are able to exploit the loopholes in supervision and fail to deliver the goods in teaching.