Update: More News on the demise of NOVA and future of English teaching in Japan
Hopefully I will be able to turn my blog back to more things about my time. But knowning a lot of you who read my blog are likely interested in teaching English in Japan. I thought it would be good to share news on NOVA and its demise so that people do not make the mistake to apply to them or wonder why it is difficult to get an English teaching job at the moment.
Nova union seeks way to hold classes
A union for Nova Corp. employees is calling on students and teachers to meet outside their old schools Saturday so they can find a way to continue classes independently of the failed foreign-language school chain.
The union is organizing the campaign to give both students and teachers an opportunity to negotiate their own terms for lessons, said Kristen Moon of the Nova branch of the National Union of General Workers Tokyo Nambu.
Read more: Japan Times
Nova fall just simple math: it bled red
Tsutomu Kuji, author of “Nova Shoho no Maryoku” (”The Magical Power of the Nova Business”), has tracked Nova’s rapid expansion in the 1990s, when it took advantage of the burst in the bubble economy and consequent land price plunge to acquire and rent classrooms at low cost. Then came another economic slump, but the chain continued to pursue expansion and splurge on ads, as Sahashi pursued his extravagant lifestyle.
Kuji wrote how Nova attracted new students with eye-catching commercials, talked them into paying tens of thousands of yen for lesson tickets for up to three years in advance and then short-changed refunds to students who grew dissatisfied with what they had paid for.
Read more: Japan Times
NOVA to sell 33 percent of schools to G.education
G.education will immediately take over 30 of 669 schools that were operated by NOVA, according to the administrators. The company aims to ultimately take over up to 200 NOVA schools in total.
Read more: Mainichi News
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