After making a number of complaints with College of Teachers who ITTP is affiliated with, we have unfortunately hit a brick wall in terms of progress. I will not use my real name to complain as I genuinely scared what Neville will do if he finds out what former pupil has unearthed this reviews scam he is running. He has threatened my classmates, he has threatened me and I found out he has been threatening review site administrators. I was told he even tracked down the family home of a review site administrator and threatened him there in person. If the man is crazy enough to travel from Prague to London to threaten a review site owner. what will he do after myself and my classmates decided to get serious with letting others know of this review scam he runs. Neville Thomas cannot be trusted and given the College of Teacher's response to this so far, it appears that maybe ITTP has influence there.
Here are the hard facts....
- TEFL REVIEWS - www.tefl-reviews.com is hosted by an IP address in the same location as the ITTP website.
- When I submitted a negative review to this website Neville (the owner of ITTP) immediately had my email, name and IP address.
- This website claims it is unbiased and indepdent. Really?
I am incredibly disappointed in the College of Teachers and the fact that even faced with all of these facts and also hard statements from Review website administrators, that Neville threatens them, that this organization fails to take action. It brings to question the credibility of such an organization when they align themselves with ITTP and these type of actions.
If you are looking for schools or colleges with no ethics, that threaten and bully their way to hiding bad reviews about their practices - look for schools and colleges aligned with College of Teachers. This is an organization with no code of practices.
Here are the hard facts....
- TEFL REVIEWS - www.tefl-reviews.com is hosted by an IP address in the same location as the ITTP website.
- When I submitted a negative review to this website Neville (the owner of ITTP) immediately had my email, name and IP address.
- This website claims it is unbiased and indepdent. Really?
I am incredibly disappointed in the College of Teachers and the fact that even faced with all of these facts and also hard statements from Review website administrators, that Neville threatens them, that this organization fails to take action. It brings to question the credibility of such an organization when they align themselves with ITTP and these type of actions.
If you are looking for schools or colleges with no ethics, that threaten and bully their way to hiding bad reviews about their practices - look for schools and colleges aligned with College of Teachers. This is an organization with no code of practices.
Ok, anyone considering taking the comments of HBlendon seriously, please please read this first.
ReplyDeleteHBlendon wrote:
'I am a former ITTP TEFL Prague student and I am writing this complaints to provide a place where people can review ITTP TEFL Prague without fear of their reviews being removed. It is also to alert other potential TEFL clients to a major review scam currently being run by Neville Thomas and ITTP TEFL Prague. What his company did to myself and my classmates was really poor, however that is not my problem now. My problem is his attitude and dirty games towards our complaints and subsequent online reviews which has made me really angry. '
That's not really true, is it HBlendon. Yes, ITTP has attracted some negative reviews, but no more than any other onsite or online TEFL course. Spend a bit of time looking and you'll see that all well-known onsite and online courses attract a fair balance of positive and negative reviews. That's normal.
What's not normal though is this:
Since about April 23 of last year we see a flood of extremely similar forum posts and reviews. All of them have similar titles, similar content, have something to do with a supposed scam ITTP Prague, or ramblings on about lousy accommodation at ITTP Prague. Whole "blogs" have even been created with the sole intention of writing one post - a negative review about ITTP.
All this since April 23.
Anyone with half a brain can see that all of these forum posts / reviews / one-post blogs were created by the same person or small group of people with some personal issue against ITTP or someone who works for them - clearly Neville, the joint owner of ITTP and widely respected in the Prague Education community as far as I and my colleagues are aware. Oh, and unlike you I have lived in Prague for 13 years so I think I can write with a bit more unbiased clarity ;)
Just look at the language used in the posts - there's not even any attempt to use different writing styles to make it look like they were written by different people. Have a look at the comments in the review that HBlendon quotes on his blog, for example - the language is so unbelievably unnatural for a genuine reply to a forum thread, it's laughable - they are such obviously staged replies, written by the same person that wrote the original post.
HBlendon (or whatever the person's real name is) quite obviously has some personal issue with ITTP and has decided to devote a large amount of time and energy into trying to discredit them.
My advice to anyone reading this - treat anything negative you read about ITTP written on or after April 23 with a very large pinch of salt.
P.S. No, before you ask, HBlendon, I don't work for ITTP.
Firstly i don't work for ittp.
ReplyDeletei can see these blog posts began in around april of last year so if i did work for ittp why wait until now to respond like this. i just want to get that out of the way.
i DO though study on the ittp online course and began doing so on friday last week and i came across this "blog" researching my online course options and i must write that pages like this one actually clinched the deal for me because i was sure that the posts were written by either 1 person or a few and the amount of energy spent on this assured me that the school existed so i wasn't going to sign up and pay and find out it was an online school scam. so i began the course with ittp on friday and so far very satisfied with all aspects of the package. i feel they deserve a plug here so here is their website:
www.tefl-tesol-online.com
I don't know anything about threatening site administrators, fake reviews or any of the other crazy half-baked claims on this page but I think that one should validate this as fact first or just simply being equivalent to the brown slime which seeps from the rear end of the male version of the cow species.
Lets take into account all of the info on this page which also appears on complaints websites where people can post without any verification at all, and of which posts were obviously also set up by the same person who wasted his or her time on this blog: Ittp-tefl-reviews.blogspot.com.
SHOCKING isn't it!!!
why, all the same claims listed on those complaints board websites are also listed on this blog too!!!
but, I did some sniffing around and noticed that the .co.uk version of this site (that's Ittp-tefl-reviews.blogspot.co.uk folks btw) has been censored by Google. They have taken off the written claims which appear on the generic .com version of the blog and on the complaints sites.
why was the .co.uk version of this site deemed unpublishable by Google? I don't think they close blogs just for giggles as they take free speech seriously so why would they take off the .co.uk version of this blog, citing legal reasons, if everything written on this blog were based on fact? Mmmm :-D
Ittp-tefl-reviews.blogspot.co.uk
... because if it is deemed unsuitable for Google to publish it then you know it's essentially a load of man cow seeping goo :-)
ITTP is not a part of the College of Teachers. They were kicked out because they could not abide by the code of conduct. However, they still advertise as being associated. ITTP is a swindle and scam.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.collegeofteachers.ac.uk/content/ittp-prague-no-longer-institutional-member