Sunday 1 July 2012

ITTP TEFL Reviews 3

For the record and the benefit of those reading these reviews, Nevilles comment about my reply to him, for him to "give me money" or I would write a scathing review, Here is what I actually said:- " The only way to put things right with me, Neville, is to refund me. I did give you the opportunity to let me out before the course started, as I was on a tight budget. You could have brought the class numbers down by refunding me then but you simply said "It would be a shame for you to cancel, especially as both your deposits are non-refundable". Who says they are non refundable? You? You told me that accommodation had come up and send more deposit to secure it. I did as you asked only to be told by you, thanks for your deposit, sorry, the accommodation has been taken. You knew the score with me and could have, i,m sure , secured the accommodation before that extra deposit arrived with you, if it was there at all. From then on, I lost all faith in you, but you didn't care because you had our money. So we where stuck with your course and had no choice but to borrow more money to pay for our accommodation. Had there been 14 'MAX',on the course as you say several times on your website, perhaps I would have done better. I got a B. The most I expected was a C. I didn't even get to the lesson plan page in the exam. Dave, I believe, got a B+. ( in fact he got a "B"). Now he was well ahead of me and spent hours at home with me drumming me with more info and teaching and was brilliant. So how come we ended up with very close results? (Same results) Who was the 'Chief External Moderator'? Did he actually look at the exam papers? Did anyone? As you can see Neville, I am not happy. I will not be teaching unless I take a more reputable course that will help me. This certificate, as has been said, could have been created in 'word' and looks like it was. Its not even square on the page. I have signed up now for 'Abroad Reviews' and am going to spend today writing my review and I will probably post it tonight. I could however lie and give you a fantastic review or not do anything but there is only one way that will happen, and that is if you agree to buy back my certificate for what I paid for it. I,m still out of pocket but had a lovely expensive visit to Prague. You certainly did make a big mistake in November. I sincerely hope you can put things right and do the right thing. .............................................. ........................... .................................... That was what I wrote. 9 trainees is a good number, and obviously one that you can cope with. Keep it down and this situation might not happen again. Then again, after this you might not get 9. As for thanking me for "free marketing"..............well, what can I say?....Your welcome?... You planted suspicion about your organisation in my mind before I even got there and unfortunately I could not shake that throughout the course. I went through the course constantly feeling that I had been sucked in by you, and believe this affected my result. Had I not been so, maybe I could have got an "A", (Haha, not). So here's some more free marketing for you....your welcome. Good luck.

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  1. Ok, anyone considering taking the comments of HBlendon seriously, please please read this first.

    HBlendon 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.

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  2. Firstly i don't work for ittp.
    i 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 :-)

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