2022 Education Frauds

 Technology Frauds

2022 started with one of the large technology frauds - Elizabeth Holmes found guilty of conspiring to defraud investors in the blood testing startup. Her company Theranos raised more than US$700 million from venture capitalists and private investors, resulting in a $10 billion valuation at its peak in 2013 and 2014.

Fraud used by schools

Students want to attend high quality established schools. Schools will use fraud to attract students to their school or attempt to appear more established to qualify for government programs or association membership. Schools that claim to have specific affiliations, qualifications, assets, programs, staff or history that are untrue are committing fraud.

Many ESL schools are creating Business English programs and internships to attract students to their programs. Many of these insta-biz schools have hired teachers with no Canadian business education, training or experience. Many of these schools have created internship programs promising work experiences that violate the current (2014) Canadian Government immigration rules regulations and visa restrictions. Students attending these very poor quality schools are wasting their money. Students performing illegal work internships could find themselves in jail and deported.

A favorite trick is to name a language school as a "college". The word college in Canada is not an official use name and anyone can name any building, house or barn as a college. Students should not choose a school simply because it has college in the name. College in the name does not mean anything in Canada.

Another trick is to use the same name or almost identical name of a famous school in the USA, UK, Asia, or Europe. If the famous school has not registered the name in Canada then anyone else can register the name without any affiliation with the original school at all. Students should not pick a school because it has a famous name in their country as it may have no affiliation at all and is designed to trick students.

Schools will appoint international agents or representatives to promote and market the school to potential students then not pay for the advertising or not pay the agency fees. Fraud schools will defraud agents by stating students did not register.

Some of the schools are owned by agents. When an independent agent presents the school with a potential student that student will be contacted by the head office agency and re-registered in the name of that agent thus defrauding the original hardworking agent.

SPECIAL Group Prices for Business English

 Business English for Groups is for employees, clubs, interest groups, associations who require intermediate and advanced Business English provided for small groups (4 to 12) in Canada or overseas.

Business English for Groups includes business theory and business vocabulary: formal business English and informal business idioms and expressions, business conversations including formal introductions, inquiries, discussions, negotiations, informal business conversations, business specialties economics, finance, accounting, marketing, sales, advertising, communications, logistics, production, manufacturing, transportation, packaging and environmental practices.

Groups are given free English language skill level assessments. Groups can study 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, or 4 weeks The programs are designed to be 25 hours each week with additional field trips and location tours. Field trips help immerse students into business life and business situations in the English speaking workplace.

ESL in Canada is also promoting GROUP CELPIP classes with Rod

- cost for individuals is $499 for 16 hours - must be upper intermediate or advanced levels - class maximum is 10

- cost for individuals is $749 for 32 hours (repeated classes) for lower intermediate level students who want additional study time

- cost for special group classes or private classes at $125 - 200 per hour (for groups of 10)

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ESL in Canada Group English and Tour Programs

  Bilingual Group and Tour Leaders Wanted

Group and Tour leaders can be bilingual English teachers, Faculty of Education students, travel consultants, educators, education consultants, HR trainers, motivated parents and non-native English instructors who have English language teaching or tour experience and wish to attend either teacher training or education consultant training while in Canada.

Group and Tour leaders who help us organize and escort a group of 12 (or more) English students will have their airfare, English camp accommodation, English camp meals, English camp tour expenses paid and receive a small honorarium for acting as referral, guardian and assistant ESL English teacher.

This program is ideal for non-native English speaking individuals who want to travel to Canada with their "class" and experience a real Canadian English Immersion Program.

Group and Tour leaders will be able to use their English, work with our ESL in Canada English teachers and the English Camp activity and skills instructors. We will be posting specific 14, 21, and 28 day English Camp programs with full day schedules and updates as they become available.

We look forward to seeing you and your students in 2022.

We will be integrating the Group and Tour leader Program with either the ESL in Canada Summer English Camp Programs or ESL in Canada Study Tour programs

How we Operate Our Programs

The Group and Tour leader program is designed to be the best experience for all parties who participate. We want this program to be a good experience for parents, students, assistant teachers, tour leaders, regular English teachers, activity coordinators, the ESL in Canada program organizers, various cooperating schools, residence providers, travel providers and the attractions, and event providers.

We want the parents of the English students to feel comfortable with the group and tour leader acting as escort, guardian, assistant teacher, sometimes translator and confidant. It is a worrying experience for parents to send their children half-way round the world. We want parents to feel comfortable with the knowledge that a trained professional from their country is there to assist.

Our goal is to have the English students who are studying and traveling to Canada to have the best experience of their life. We want them to improve all the English skills and be able to use them.

We want the students to have fun, meet new international friends, have a wonderful tour of Canada and Canadian culture. We want students to come back to Canada with new locations and participate in new tours that become available in other exciting parts of the world.

We want the international Group and Tour leaders to have a good experience with this program. Many international English teachers have student loans, low wages and high expenses preventing them from being able to travel to join English immersion programs. The Group and Tour leader program can help these teachers finance their overseas professional development and teacher training.

Many international English teachers have employment requirements of language immersion, and teaching skills workshops or on-going professional development. The Group and Tour leader program is designed to trade the expenses of travel and tuition for assistance and training. We want the international teachers to enjoy the tour, improve their English and teaching skills, gain some international teaching experience, meet new friends and fellow Canadian teachers and help them obtain their professional development requirements.

This Group and Tour leader Program is ideal for non-native English teachers that have to attend ESL workshops or programs to maintain or upgrade their English skills and wish to attend these programs in Canada. The tour leaders receive air flights, meals, accommodation, small honorarium and TESL workshops in exchange for their assistance.

To meet all current Canada CIC Laws and USA Work Permit Regulations the Teacher Tour Program is not considered a job in Canada and the cost of airfare, accommodation and the IELTS,  TESL, TEFL or TESOL teacher training workshops are not considered a salary for Canada taxation.