Fake Teaching Degrees

I've just read the article that mentions the rising number of ESL teachers using fake degrees.

Yes fake degrees are bad and it's something I would never consider obtaining; even though I was asked to get one by an agent.

Personally I feel it is the industries attitude to employ graduates in any field whatsoever as the main problem. A degree in any field whatsoever hardly qualifies a graduate to be an English teacher.

The industry should be looking at people who have real teaching certificates such as the Cambridge CELTA. A CELTA certificate is what qualifies a person to be a teacher, since all the course contents are relevant to teaching. A degree in any field whatsoever can not deliver this knowledge unless it's specific to teaching in some way.

I doubt very much that a law firm would employ graduates in any field whatsoever. They want graduates who's major was in law. The ESL industry needs to take a step back and look at what's relevant to the classroom.

ESL is also tainted by teachers who don't really want to teach but want a paid gap year. How are these people ever going to benefit the school they teach at. Well they're not. Schools need teachers who are committed to teaching and provide the school with the same teacher for many years.

The ESL industry needs to look through the degree issue and look at the qualities a person provides and their teaching abilities. It is crazy the qualified teachers with CELTA or Trinity are deem unfit because of not having a degree in any field whatsoever. A degree in any field whatsoever may as well be a fake one since it offers just as much relevance to the job.


All the best,

Lee Saunders.