TEFL Online Pro’s earns a 4.5-star rating from 0 reviews and 6 complaints, showing that the majority of TEFL course participants are exceptionally satisfied with their certification program.
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False advertising & false tefl course
Peering into this particular TEFL course as well as the fully acclaimed accredited sponsor for TEFL Online Pro ACTEFLC is not a real TEFL course nor is the accreditation company real. I addressed my concerns to the Department of Education and the directors board to provide any more additional info to see if Paul Murphy was a certified English instructor along with this prestigious award winning school that claimed to win every year; by the teacher choice award, which is also a fake label btw, and no information came up so far. It is obvious of this was legit the school and the instructor would come up into the system. This is why it only makes sense that any info goes back to his/her websites. The only evidence of such credentials only comes by several sites which I am certain is owned and collaborated by this Paul Murphy who is suppose to be a reputable teacher but is coined as an operations manager according to the site? TEFL Online pro, TEFL reviews and the partnering accredited sponsor. Very misleading, and is suspicious. Also, when you review the website it reminds me of one big television commercial where it's about sales. If anyone ever comes across this forum with this initial complaint be warned. Don't take a bogus course where the certification is false I don't want to see anyone land into any trouble. The certification is a sham that once you get it and the employer verified it, it goes right to the fake website of ACTEFLC, mind you has some misspelled words and comes off a professional but wordings are not comprehensive. Reviewing the social media pages are the same students. I do not see any other students as of recently. They are even advertised on Facebook, YouTube, TEFL Online pro. Contact information is very limited to I believe to cover up any mishaps on their end. The other TEFL courses this company has deemed a fraud I reviewed and I have seen some positive reviews and many likes and followers and a more believable outlook. Also I can not get any more info from other websites for honest reviews only directs me back to the companies website. It is fair to state something is very off and sneaky about this. No one is hating or being envious. That teachers choice award is not real you can Google this is way different from the authentic one's given and earned. There is also no detail about the accredited company that TEFL Online pro claims to be affiliated with. Other TEFL programs I have seen have authentication from the educational system and TEFL online pro is not one of them I am certain of this. I definitely will be in constant communication with the Department of Education on this matter because it's not good to be unethical and lie to students who want to pursue learning. Reach out to the educational system of your country region, and government to get important info to get the best out of your education. The following are links to review fairly for anyone to discern what is clearly off.
https://trustedteflreviews.com/teachers-choice-award-winner-2019-2/
Let me remind you that this website seems to down other schools and esteem TEFL ONLINE PRO as if it's about sales. Where is the recognition of other schools it's mainly just TEFL ONLINE PRO? A bit odd isn't it.As educators aren't we suppose to be supportive and give credit where it is due? Better ourselves? This website is in favoritism of TEFL online Pro. Not being a hater just trying to give everyone a point in perspective.
For years it has won over and over including this month again for September 2023? Look at the logo is is fake compared to real logos earned and given to institutions that were granted it. Why is it when I look for this logo and the organization that gave this award to TEFL online Pro it does not come up any where? Why can I not find any other websites that gives the props the school has won these awards? Why is it always on these websites only? If this company has been active for years why can any of us really get info from other websites for an open forum and collaborate real reviews of this exceptional school? Why are reviews only on the owners websites? Many people are all over the internet such as trustpilot as an example but only these. This was my main reason to go a step further and speak with people from the Department of Education.
Next:
https://www.acteflc.com/contact
Look at the spelling. Typos can happen yes, but if this is a state or country certified educational system the spelling and the professionalism of the website would be structured appropriately. The way the writing and info. provided to me seems over done.
This is another logo that is not real it's made up. I went looking for other companies that are sponsored by this or affiliated and nothing. Also the expensive prices associated to he accredited is an eye opener.
Jobless website
I can find many job openings looking for TEFL holders but I see again no info for Paul Murphy's company. Is it perhaps once the students finish the courses they are referred to this web page to find work? I find it very odd how the graduates that place reviews only on the TEFL Pro website and we do not really have a follow up if this makes sense. It's very off to me if anyone else notices this. Makes me wonder if job placement on supposed graduated are even assisting. It's unclear, but it's fair to say I make many valid points and can show you things that are not honest.
https://teflonlinepro.com
The website I just get car salesman vibes. It provides several courses you can take the hybrid being the most costly one with discounts. Originally it's around 500 but with a discount you can pay for about 200+. Just hearing hybrid course seems very sketchy one would know to just get a CELTA or basic TEFL.
Again, I wanted to post this as a fair complaint that this school and the owner behind it as well as possibly the owner of the other sites mentioned is unethical, dishonest, and does not care, only for the money. To falsify a document for certification is very disturbing and it can cost time made and jeopardize future teachers. I will be getting further info from the Department of Education so we can be safe to not fall victim to this place. Sadly, there are many more out there but I think it's critical to enlighten the wheat from the tares in the field to help those who truly have drive and passion to be teachers.
A shame be careful out there to all future educators teaching English.
This is so amusingly pathetic. Even your responses are like a bot. If you are who your company claims to be. The teachers award winner for the 5th time, can you provide everyone in this forum here other verifiable sources aside from your false website and the TEFL reviews as your safety blanket that is showing the board here you actually got this award? Come on Thomas we ALL know it is you. Your real name is not Paul Murphy. The Department of Education does not have you as a credible school along with the fake accreditation. God see's all and your judgment will come swiftly. The D.O.E. has all the info they need. Anyone who is reading this please spend your hard earned money on a real school. Do not waste your time. The same repeated answer he gives you is a shame. No type of answers to the questions many of us have been suspicious of.
It has obviously written by a business competitor - a business competitor (co-ordinating with a few others) that has been going out of its way to spread false information online about our products and services.
Yes, the Online TEFL/TESOL industry is extremely competitive and some rogue programs will spend a chunk of their time trying to trash their business competitor(s) online.
TEFL Online Pro is Fully Accredited and internationally recognized - our graduates teach both online and in-person internationally.
TEFL Online Pro has won the prestigious Teachers' Choice Award five years in a row, and our student reviews can be viewed on the Trusted TEFL Reviews website, on the TEFL Online Pro YouTube channel, on the TEFL Online Pro Facebook page, and on our Google Business Listing.
This review, we believe, is an ongoing co-ordinated attack by a handful of our business competitors.
Kind regards,
Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro
info@teflonlinepro.com
https://teflonlinepro.com/enroll/
https://www.facebook.com/teflonlinepro/reviews/
The Teachers’ Choice Award winner in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023
https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-teachers-choice-award-winner-2023/
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TEFL On-Line Pro
Hello,
Any person who reads this is coming from an honest and ethical source. I enrolled to this course to become an English teacher. I am an individual who takes pride in learning and expects to get the best advantage of what I invested in, and wanting to be apart of a supportive community.To make this brief do not pay to take this course as I did some deep diving and can discern that there is something terribly wrong and off about this platform and the "teacher" running TEFL On-Line Pro. Paul did not care about me as a student, nor provided me with the necessary tools and resources from his own platform but was rather passive aggressive and told me I was on my own and to figure it out. I have the reciepts to prove this, and have been warned that this person is using an alias, by diguising their identity from other web$ites of the past. I wanted to not believe this but its actually truths to what other's have said in the past and present. Paul appears to definitely be about his money only. I also notice when you protect yourself, your morals, or point out sone errors, Paul will retaliate in a narrcisstic manner. Most of my letters never got regarded. Then, finally I got a letter that was passive aggressive shadowed with "your on your own and figure out learning from other sources." Where is the support? Certainly does not seem like someone from an ESL industry. I am also beginning to wonder if the course material even comes from this teacher; and is just bits and parts lumped together due to how the lessons are structured. I believe if a teacher cares about their students to be their best they would truly work with them, care about them, and support them. There were no on-line tools or other resource portals embedded with the course just a brief summary for each lesson with very little detail, or confusing parts that were not clear, and its off to a test. I wasted my time and money. I highly doubt this person will even give me my money back and cause me to jump through hoops to be refunded esp. with the vindictive behavior I was alerted about. I am troubled and very angry as I am limited on funds and worked hard to pay for this course that is not even a reality. Very rarely am I tricked and must admit I got blinded and got trapped in a web of deciet. I will be enlisting to a fully accredited and world recognized school that is authentic and also take in person courses; that a real professional, was honerable enough to assist me with as I truly want to be my best and contribute to educate future students and be apart of a community that actually speaks and merges with you. Another sketchy thing I want to point out is if you go to the website just recently, TEFL On-Line Pro has won another award for the 5th time in a row for this year. The pattern with this is very deceptive. I went to dig deep on these awards and there is no credible proof this even exists or any other information that can verify it. Its only things you can find on that website. Its very concerning and its draws people into enroll. Its odd that there is the website and the other many spoke about that only esteems TEFL On-Line Pro (Trusted Tefl Reviews) no where else can you get any other reviews from real life people. The social media pages seem very redundant also. You see the same faces or graduates and not certain these are real students. It seems very staged. If they are graduates fine, but this was from long while ago where are newer students as myself who have take this course? Its funmy how I am speaking of this as I noticed there was a fake response of a "student" claiming that people are lying and Paul cared about her and responded to her every day and provided her with resources and material to help her suceed and she is starting a new job in Europe. This has to be a lie as Paul never did that for me. I got discarded. The website is also very confusing to navigate and make sense of things. If you click on the menu and take a look it truly looks like an advertisement and then the cart to pay for a cour$e. Viewing the website will take you to a complaint section of teachers from other schools and to me this was very bizzarre because it just did not seem professional. Do not waste your time or hard earned money here find a reputable and fully accredited school that is recognized within the inudstry. Attend places where people truly care and want help you. Its a shame this person can live like this. There is a God and divine justice will be sought out. Best of luck to everyone.
Desired outcome: It would be decent to be ethical, honest, and have compassion.
This complaint has been resolved automatically due to user's inactivity.
TEFL Online Pro would like to clearly state that we have never had a student bearing any resemblance to the individual that wrote this review.
Furthermore, the information contained within the review just doesn't add up.
TEFL Online Pro is Fully Accredited and internationally recognized - our graduates teach both online and in-person internationally.
We always respond to student queries within 24 hours - often much faster - and we assist all of our course students with any help they require via their online tutor. This extends to international job guidance after the course.
TEFL Online Pro has won the prestigious Teachers' Choice Award five years in a row, and our student reviews can be viewed on the Trusted TEFL Reviews website, on the TEFL Online Pro YouTube channel, on the TEFL Online Pro Facebook page, and on our Google Business Listing.
You might notice that some TEFL programs sometimes receive ten or more 5-Star reviews in a day on multiple platforms. This is not aligned with reality. Either the people writing the reviews have been incentivized to do so, or they are simply flat-out fake reviews.
TEFL Online Pro doesn't badger its graduates to write reviews of their course experience.
Our customers write a review if and when they feel like doing so.
This review, we believe, is an ongoing co-ordinated attack by a handful of our business competitors.
Kind regards,
Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro
info@teflonlinepro.com
https://teflonlinepro.com/enroll/
https://www.facebook.com/teflonlinepro/reviews/
The Teachers’ Choice Award winner in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023
https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-teachers-choice-award-winner-2023/
Furthermore, the information contained within the review just doesn't add up.
TEFL Online Pro is Fully Accredited and internationally recognized - our graduates teach both online and in-person internationally.
We always respond to student queries within 24 hours - often much faster - and we assist all of our course students with any help they require via their online tutor. This extends to international job guidance after the course.
TEFL Online Pro has won the prestigious Teachers' Choice Award five years in a row, and our student reviews can be viewed on the Trusted TEFL Reviews website, on the TEFL Online Pro YouTube channel, on the TEFL Online Pro Facebook page, and on our Google Business Listing.
You might notice that some TEFL programs sometimes receive ten or more 5-Star reviews in a day on multiple platforms. This is not aligned with reality. Either the people writing the reviews have been incentivized to do so, or they are simply flat-out fake reviews.
TEFL Online Pro doesn't badger its graduates to write reviews of their course experience.
Our customers write a review if and when they feel like doing so.
This review, we believe, is an ongoing co-ordinated attack by a handful of our business customers.
Kind regards,
Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro
info@teflonlinepro.com
https://teflonlinepro.com/enroll/
https://www.facebook.com/teflonlinepro/reviews/
The Teachers’ Choice Award winner in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023
https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-teachers-choice-award-winner-2023/
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Fake reviews and also questionable accreditat qualification tefl courses
March 25th 2019 (ongoing)
This company is a rival company to The TEFL Academy as the owner of TEFL pro and Trusted Tefl Reviews. Instead of strong ethical practices the owner has chosen to write fake reviews across the internet for competing companies. i.e.
https://trustedteflreviews.com/tefl-scams/
https://trustedteflreviews.com/2019/03/25/the-tefl-academy-certification-review/
The biggest worry is away from an email to contact the owner hides behind the alias Mia Williams but is actually Neville Thomas. Examples of his history:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW7m9HNuzEw&t=16s
https://ittp-tefl-reviews.blogspot.com/
Neville has a history of trolling competing businesses and instead of helping an industry through good courses and healthy development of the industry. Spends his time writing fake articles and reviews on competing businesses. His TEFL company TEFL pro also has a deeply concerning accreditation and would need to be reviewed >> https://www.teflpros.com/accreditation/
We have always ignored this site however we have just had a business refund request over a review of his and as a result. We will now be taking action. This will be the first of our actions against the company and Neville.
Desired outcome: For company to remove all false claims about The TEFL Academy and to stop targeting the business
Owner contacted me to clear up the matter
We never comment on a competing TEFL program, but as you have written this complaint - full of grammar mistakes I might add - we do need to clarify for any readers of this complaint that TEFL Online Pro has, for some time now, been the subject of unwanted attention from The TEFL Academy, MyTEFL, and Ian Leahy from the ESLinsider TEFL program.
It has gotten so bad that we felt the need to issue a rebuttal to the accusations levied against us, including the false accusations published online by one of your (The TEFL Academy) senior employees, Caitriona McTiernan:
https://teflonlinepro.com/refutation-of-allegations-made-by-our-business-competitors/
The only connection that TEFL Online Pro has with trustedteflreviews.com is that we are the top-rated online TEFL/TESOL program on that site- based on hundreds of verified customer reviews.
In addition, regarding accreditation, we feel that The TEFL Academy should be more forthcoming with regards to their dubious accreditation claims.
The TEFL Academy claims to be accredited by a bunch of organizations, but, in fact, are only regulated by them.
TEFL Online Pro is a fully accredited TEFL/TESOL program, accredited by ACTEFLC - Accreditation Council for Teaching English as a Foreign Language Courses (acteflc.com)
We kindly request, Thomas Gibbons, CEO at The TEFL Academy, that you stop the false accusations, that you stop misrepresenting your company as being an accredited TEFL program, and that you, instead, focus your efforts and time on improving the services for your customers.
Our records show that Thomas Gibbons joined The TEFL Academy in early 2020 and that since that date we have witnessed a worrying trend across the board, affecting numerous TEFL programs, of false and misleading accusations- all aimed, it appears, at selling more of The TEFL Academy's courses and persuading potential students that The TEFL Academy is the number 1 TEFL company in the world.
When you Google 'TEFL Online Pro reviews' you will find a mixed bag.
On the one hand, you will see hundreds of verified customer reviews on trustedteflreviews.com and on our company Facebook page, as well as video testimonials from past alumni.
On the other hand, you will also see a lot of mud slinging from a few competing TEFL programs that obviously view our company success as an existential threat to their business model.
We will not be commenting further regarding this complaint, made by one of our business competitors.
Again, for the benefit of clarity, here is our rebuttal to the online smear campaigns that have been instigated by some of our business competitors:
https://teflonlinepro.com/refutation-of-allegations-made-by-our-business-competitors/
Kind regards,
Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | teflonlinepro.com
I was scammed by The TEFL Academy (TTA).
No reputable language school wants to touch the certificate with a barge pole.
Its website: https://www.theteflacademy.com/
Don't believe the fake reviews.
The TEFL Academy (TTA) kept asking me to write a 5-Star review on Facebook/Trust Pilot/Go Overseas/Go Abroad - in return for a free Business English course.
This program is one to avoid folks!
Is TEFL Online Pro Legit?
TEFL Online Pro earns a trustworthiness rating of 94%
Highly recommended, but caution will not hurt.
By resolving 83% of 6 negative reviews, TEFL Online Pro is demonstrating its dedication to customer satisfaction and effectively addressing customer issues. While there may still be some practical problems that need to be addressed, such as long wait times or unhelpful responses.
Teflonlinepro.com has a valid SSL certificate, which indicates that the website is secure and trustworthy. Look for the padlock icon in the browser and the "https" prefix in the URL to confirm that the website is using SSL.
Teflonlinepro.com has been deemed safe to visit, as it is protected by a cloud-based cybersecurity solution that uses the Domain Name System (DNS) to help protect networks from online threats.
Teflonlinepro.com you are considering visiting, which is associated with TEFL Online Pro, is very old. Longevity often suggests that a website has consistently provided valuable content, products, or services over the years and has maintained a stable user base and a sustained online presence. This could be an indication of a very positive reputation.
This website offers payment methods that provide the option for customers to get their money back, which could be a positive indicator of the company's commitment to customer satisfaction.
Teflonlinepro.com appears to have online shopping features, it's important to know that the platform supports an extensive range of payment methods, making it convenient and easy to complete your transaction. The payment procedure on the website is also relatively simple and straightforward, ensuring a smooth and hassle-free experience for buyers.
However ComplaintsBoard has detected that:
- Website's registrar is popular among scammers, it means that a significant number of scammers have used that registrar to register domain names for their fraudulent websites. This can indicate that the registrar has lax verification processes, making it easier for scammers to register domains without providing accurate information.
- Teflonlinepro.com has relatively low traffic compared to other websites, it could be due to a niche focus, but could also indicate a potential lack of traffic and popularity. The teflonlinepro.com may offer a niche product or service that is only of interest to a smaller audience.
- TEFL Online Pro protects their ownership data, a common and legal practice. However, from our perspective, this lack of transparency can impede trust and accountability, which are essential for establishing a credible and respected business entity.
- We conducted a search on social media and found several negative reviews related to TEFL Online Pro. These reviews may indicate issues with the company's products, services, or customer support. It is important to thoroughly research the company and its offerings before making any purchases to avoid any potential risks.
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TEFL Online Pro and Trusted TEFL Reviews Are a Scam
The owner of Trusted TEFL Reviews and TEFL Online Pro is the same. Neville David Thomas has a long history of running fake review sites to attack his competitors. To see more proof look no further than his Facebook posts. This man was caught promoting both the fake review site and his two cent online TEFL school. Neville is the only one writing the reviews on that fake site.
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer's satisfaction.
The only connection that TEFL Online Pro has with trustedteflreviews.com is that we are the top-rated online TEFL/TESOL program on that site- based on hundreds of verified customer reviews.
When you Google 'TEFL Online Pro reviews' you will find a mixed bag.
On the one hand, you will see hundreds of verified customer reviews on trustedteflreviews.com and on our company Facebook page, as well as video testimonials from past alumni.
On the other hand, you will also see a lot of mud slinging from a few competing TEFL programs (such as this "complaint") that obviously view our company success as an existential threat to their business model.
It has gotten so bad that we felt the need to issue a rebuttal to the accusations levied against us, by a few bad-actor unaccredited TEFL programs:
https://teflonlinepro.com/refutation-of-allegations-made-by-our-business-competitors/
TEFL Online Pro is a fully accredited TEFL/TESOL program, accredited by ACTEFLC - Accreditation Council for Teaching English as a Foreign Language Courses (acteflc.com)
We kindly request that our business competitors stop the false accusations and that they, instead, focus their efforts and time on improving the services for their customers.
We will not be commenting further regarding this complaint, made by one of our business competitors.
Again, for the benefit of clarity, here is our rebuttal to the online smear campaigns that have been instigated by some of our business competitors:
https://teflonlinepro.com/refutation-of-allegations-made-by-our-business-competitors/
Kind regards,
Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | teflonlinepro.com
I am writing to respond to the false accusations made toward me and my TEFL Reviews website.
The accusations made against me and trustedteflreviews.com are incorrect.
Trusted TEFL Reviews is an independent TEFL Reviews website.
It was established by myself and a few other teachers that live and work in Vienna, Austria (Europe).
We are all English teachers.
The motivation behind establishing Trusted TEFL Reviews was to provide people with a non-biased reviews website where they would be able to read verified customer reviews and then make up their own minds about which TEFL/TESOL certification course they felt suited them best.
I understand first-hand the frustrating and stressful process of choosing a TEFL company to take the certification with.
Trusted TEFL Reviews was birthed from this frustration and stress.
I would like to make note that the majority of TEFL companies do (mostly) follow and stick to better business practices.
This, for Trusted TEFL Reviews, means that they take negative customer reviews for the constructive criticism that they almost always are intended to be.
There are, though, a few notable TEFL companies that have tried to gain an unfair advantage by trying to have fake (positive) reviews of their company published on Trusted TEFL Reviews.
Three companies in particular spring to mind:
ESLinsider
MyTEFL
TTA The TEFL Academy
Some other TEFL companies are no angels either, but the poor business practices of ESLinsider, MyTEFL, and TTA The TEFL Academy really does stand out from the crowd. You could say that they are award-winning in this category.
All three of these companies have had multiple reviews of their TEFL program denied publication because of alarming red flags.
All three of these companies appeared to take this backlash as a personal affront to their company.
My understanding is that they were so used to having their reviews published automatically on other TEFL Reviews websites that our verification steps were a complete shock to them.
The fake reviews kept filling up my email Inbox and we had little choice other than to issue a public warning notice on the Trusted TEFL Reviews website- exposing these three companies for their continued pattern of fake-review behavior.
I only planned to have the warnings showing on the website for a few weeks because I thought that would have prevented any further abuse of the review submission process.
How wrong I was!
What followed was months, turning into years, of online abuse directed at Trusted TEFL Reviews and me.
ESLinsider was the first.
It is a one-man-show business that has been run to the ground by its owner, Ian Patrick Leahy.
MyTEFL was next, and TTA The TEFL Academy joined the defamation party from March 2021 onwards.
MyTEFL and TTA The TEFL Academy just regurgitate what ESLinsider wrote.
I wasn’t really up on the TEFL gossip at the time that Ian began writing false accusations about me and my reviews website, so at first, I did actually wonder if ESLinsider was an industry expert. The name sort of implies it.
Of course, I did my due diligence into ESLinsider and I discovered that he had/has a long history of attacking TEFL review websites, attacking TEFL accreditation websites, and attacking his TEFL company business competitors.
It appears that he does this to attract free advertising for his TEFL program.
I immediately understood that I wasn’t dealing with a TEFL expert at all.
Instead, I was dealing with a conman.
In fact, having read some of his articles and having watched some of his YouTube videos, I discovered that Ian is in no way qualified or experienced enough to even run a TEFL certification program. He didn’t finish college, he took a dirt-cheap TEFL course, he has very limited knowledge of TEFL, and (if the rumors are true) he is not exactly Bill Gates when it comes to managing his and his customers’ finances.
MyTEFL is also run by one individual- Ben Glickman.
TTA The TEFL Academy is (sigh) also run by one individual- Thomas Gibbons.
So out of all the TEFL companies listed on Trusted TEFL Reviews, I only have had major issues with three TEFL companies, and these three TEFL companies are each run by a head honcho that can’t take criticism.
It is, therefore, no wonder that ESLinsider, MyTEFL, and TTA The TEFL Academy have reacted in the way that they have- taking the rejection of the publication of a review of their company personal and then reacting in a very unprofessional and completely uncalled for way.
Instead of just ignoring the warnings that I had written about them, and instead of encouraging their TEFL graduates to submit real reviews for inclusion on Trusted TEFL Reviews, all three TEFL companies responded with a smear campaign- just as they have done in this thread on this public complaints website.
TTA The TEFL Academy has really gone the extra mile by having one of its employees (Caitriona Maria McTiernan) establish a website aimed specifically at promoting its TEFL courses and spreading false information about Trusted TEFL Reviews.
Now that is dedication!
Some of the false accusations written about me:
I am not Mia Williams.
Trusted TEFL Reviews is operated by a TEFL company.
I write all of the reviews on Trusted TEFL Reviews.
1. Just like any other individual, I am entitled to my personal privacy and I don’t expect to be harassed.
I do use my real first name, but I am not going to allow people like Ian, Ben, and Thomas to know my real full name.
I don’t know how they managed it, but Caitriona Maria found out where I live in Vienna and she wrote me a threatening email.
You can read all about this in the latest TTA The TEFL Academy post on Trusted TEFL Reviews.
2. I co-own and co-run Trusted TEFL Reviews.
None of us have any connections whatsoever with any of the TEFL programs that we have listed on the Trusted TEFL Reviews website.
The two TEFL companies that have been falsely accused of owning and running Trusted TEFL Reviews are TEFL Online Pro and OISE University of Toronto TEFL.
These are the 1st and 2nd top-rated TEFL programs on Trusted TEFL Reviews, so I assume that the false claims are just sour grapes on the part of TEFL programs positioned lower down in the TEFL course food chain.
3. To claim that I, or one of my colleagues, writes the reviews on Trusted TEFL Reviews is just so absurd and I highly doubt anyone believes such nonsense anyway.
If ESLinsider, MyTEFL, and The TEFL Academy would only have their graduates write a real review of their TEFL Course experience then all of this mess could be avoided.
The fact that they haven’t done this, that they have, instead, chosen to try and convince readers that Trusted TEFL Reviews is biased and not trustworthy, is a poor sign that they, instead, choose to try and cover up their bad customer reviews and is a possible indicator that the reviews they have on other TEFL Reviews websites are questionable in terms of their authenticity.
I see there is also a lot of hate directed at TEFL Online Pro, and that TEFL Online Pro is experiencing similar smear campaigns and fake accusation attacks.
TEFL Online Pro (teflonlinepro.com) has won the Teachers’ Choice Award three years in a row- 2019, 2020, and 2021.
It is the top-rated TEFL program on Trusted TEFL Reviews.
Is this because I have a preference for them over other TEFL companies? No, of course not.
TEFL Online Pro is a three-time winner and currently the top-rated TEFL program because its TEFL customers think so and vote for TEFL Online Pro and write positive feedback about their experience with this company.
TEFL Online Pro is not a scam, just as Trusted TEFL Reviews is not a scam.
Oh, and I have FaceTimed with the TEFL Online Pro team three times now (after each time an award was won) and I have seen their team and their school offices.
I also had the opportunity to have a few minutes of FaceTime with Paul Murphy, the Operations Manager at TEFL Online Pro.
I think that public complaints websites definitely have a purpose on the internet.
They are a valuable medium with which to expose dishonest people and dishonest companies.
But, they can also be abused and I see that this complaints thread has been completely abused.
The thread was begun by ESlinsider (it is his MO) and MyTEFL and TTA The TEFL Academy have chimed in also anonymously.
All three are unaccredited; meaning they are not obliged to adhere to strict accreditation codes of conduct.
TEFL Online Pro, btw, is fully accredited and has to adhere to strict accreditation codes of conduct.
I can only see one complaint that might be authentic, written by a TEFL Online Pro customer (perhaps) who it appears wasn’t satisfied with the course content, having just completed half of the course.
Does that warrant a claim of “scam!”? No, not at all.
I would wager that the person only wrote their complaint because they had read the other false complaints, written by ESLinsider, MyTEFL, and TTA The TEFL Academy, and believed their false narrative.
IMO the person should have left a review on Trusted TEFL Reviews.
That way, their complaint would have been a verified review.
Not everyone can be satisfied with literally every product or service.
That’s one of the reasons why Trusted TEFL Reviews is such a popular TEFL Reviews website.
Thank you for reading this response and thank you to everyone who takes the time out to write a TEFL Course review and submit it to Trusted TEFL Reviews
Mia Williams - trustedteflreviews.com
Which Online TEFL? Verified TEFL TESOL certification course reviews, written by real people.
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A potential fraudulent company backed by a fake tefl review site
In the online TEFL space, there are bound to be a fair amount of unscrupulous characters and scammy programs out there. It appears there is a new player on the field, TEFL Online Pro, which might take the cake as being the pinnacle of a fraudulent company backed by a fake review site — Trusted Tefl Reviews.
There is mounting evidence that suggests that TEFL Online Pro's entire operation is poorly conceived scam, run by one individual pretending to be both graduates and staff of this made-up online TEFL company. This individual appears to also be the creator, and operator, of the potentially fake TEFL review site, Trusted TEFL Reviews, creating multiple fake personas to give the review site (and TEFL Online Pro) the optics of looking credible.
Even more troubling is that TEFL Online Pro and Trusted TEFL Reviews might indeed be the work of a man named Neville David Thomas, a past scam artist in the online TEFL space {proof below}.
Let's take a step back and unpack how we got here. Trusted TEFL Reviews — trustedteflreviews.com, appeared on the scene in mid-2019 as a credible review site that didn't accept advertising dollars. The owner of the site was a very active woman named Mia Williams. Shortly after this review site's inception, it became clear that this site was nothing at all to be trusted. The review site's real intended use is to prop up Online TEFL Pro and write fake negative reviews about legitimate TEFL courses. Evidence below.
i) Both TEFL Online Pro and Trusted TEFL Reviews were created in the same month (March 2019) within 10 days of each other. Both domains were purchased from the same website company, registered anonymously and registered in Panama of all places. This can be verified by searching the WHOIS records for these domains.
* Already this is quite a coincidence, surely a smoking gun. Why would a TEFL course pay extra money to hide the true identities of their owners?
ii) Mia Williams and Paul Murphy {the head trainer at TEFL Online Pro} do not exist until 2019. There are no LinkedIn profiles, company registrations, bios, pictures, blogs, work history, for either of them. If people have decades of experience + are active on the internet, it would make sense for them to have a teaching history/professional profile, wouldn't it? Well, there's nothing. They simply did not exist until both websites were created in March 2019 {within 10 days of each other}.
*Some people do not have LinkedIn, but 'Mia Williams' has been incredibly active on social media with over 280 posts on Quora since March 2019. Wouldn't it be reasonable for her to also have a LinkedIn account? Wouldn't the head trainer/owner of a TEFL course also have a professional profile? Neither of them does and that's because they are made up people.
iii) Shortly after Trusted TEFL Reviews was created in March 2019 (although they write and lie that they have been around for years) TEFL Online Pro just happen to win their fake Teachers' Choice Award. You can currently view those details on the review site. Ironically, TEFL Online Pro have no other reviews on the internet. There are no Google reviews and they are not listed on any other TEFL course review website. That's strange.
*It is so obvious at this point what is going on that it's kind of humorous.
iv) Negative reviews for other online TEFL courses begin to pop up frequently on Trusted TEFL Reviews.
v) Finding it peculiar to see multiple negative reviews coming from unknown graduates on a new review website, a few legitimate online TEFL courses questioned the authenticity of the reviews on Trusted TEFL Reviews.
Instead of offering proof that these negative reviews were credible, Trusted TEFL Reviews decided to attack the other online courses, creating both a scam and blacklisted section. You can currently view this content on their website. Needless to stay, the information in these sections is false and Trusted TEFL Reviews refuses to make any counter argument from the online companies public — they are not allowing us to add comments on the site. When an impartial review site creates a scam section about your company for questioning the legitimacy of some reviews you've received, you know there is something up.
*This is where it became clear what Trusted TEFL Reviews M.O. was. Review sites do not attack courses directly.
vi) While 'Mia Williams' {the potentially fake persona of Trusted TEFL Reviews} has created a scam section and blacklist section for certain courses who questioned the validity of the review site, she has gone out of her way to defend TEFL Online Pro on various forums and platforms on the net. So much so, that the mods at Reddit have banned all mention of TEFL Online Pro and have added both TEFL Online Pro and Trusted TEFL Reviews to their 'avoid like the plague' section. You can view this in the r/TEFL section on Reddit.
I think the case has been made that there is indeed something very strange about these two entities.
Connection with Neville David Thomas?
i) In an effort to find out the real owners of TEFL Online Pro and Trusted TEFL Reviews, a few online courses decided to do some research. It was quite easy to conduct. We just went on Facebook and searched for these terms in various TEFL/teaching groups. Low and behold, a man named Neville kept popping up recommending both TEFL Online Pro and Trusted TEFL Reviews, saying he was the owner of TEFL Online Pro.
A quick google search of his name brought up a history of Neville creating multiple fake review sites for fake TEFL courses in the past.
These go back as far as 2012. There was even a review site {circa 2015} where he created another female persona as the creator. You can view this evidence for yourself here — https://teflonlinereviews.wordpress.com
*Note that this review site uses the word 'trusted' in its description and is managed by another female persona. There is also a scam and blacklisted section as well.
So, there you have it. All of these claims can easily be thwarted by Trusted TEFL Reviews and TEFL Online Pro. All that is asked is for Mia Williams and Paul Murphy to prove that they are real people. This can be solved immediately by a link to a LinkedIn profile (something created before 2019) or official registration docs/articles of incorporation of their companies.
We believe that neither of these entities will produce this basic information and that proves that these websites are at least lying about who they really are. We would also ask that Trusted TEFL Reviews provide proof of the many negative reviews that other legitimate online TEFL courses have received and remove the scam/blacklisted sections on their review site. At the very least, they should allow us to add comments and defend ourselves. They won't, because they appear to be lairs.
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer's satisfaction.
We have decided to write one final response and then we are not going to add any further comments to this complaint; a complaint begun by TTA The TEFL Academy, subsequently added to by ESLinsider TEFL, ITTT TEFL, and MyTEFL, and, more recently, since December 24th, hijacked by James Anthony Dwyer from ITT International TEFL and TESOL Ltd. and World TEFL Institute.
If you are asking yourself how can these business competitors so freely defame a business competitor online, it is because they are not fully accredited and are not accountable to a fully accredited issuing body.
This is partly why our responses have been measured and professional.
It is because TEFL Online Pro is Fully Accredited and is accountable to the ACTEFLC Codes of Practice.
We do want to provide an update with regard to James Anthony Dwyer.
Friday last week, we received a notification that the UK Trading Standards have received our complaint and they are going to take action against James and his two TEFL certification course companies.
They also advised us to contact the Advertising Standards Authority and the Charity Commission, which we will be doing this week.
With regard to the other four business competitors that have chosen to use this page as their smear-campaign forum, we will be following a similar course of action.
With so many programs offering Online TEFL/TESOL certification courses, and with so many of them being unaccredited and unregulated, it is no wonder that these smear-campaign complaints occur.
The marketplace is like a crowded waterhole in the dry season and there is tremendous competition for just a taste of the water.
All five programs have demonstrated that they really will write literally any old rubbish in order to try and convince you, the Reader, either not to take one of our courses period, or not to take one of our courses and take one of their courses instead.
Regarding James Anthony Dwyer, he continues to push the false narrative that TEFL Online Pro is not a legal company, that we don't pay our taxes, and that our certificates are not possible to be legalised for teaching jobs in Asia.
This is, of course, completely false.
When we established a business account with Paypal in 2019, we had to provide company registration proof along with the current year's tax submission that our accountant provided for us.
Our students teach online and in-person - in all countries where it is possible to teach English, and this includes countries such as Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, China, etc.
We don't want you, the Reader, to be swayed into taking an unaccredited TEFL and TESOL certification course that is unregulated and poorly-constructed, and this is why we have placed a warning on our school website to let people know that these competitors are trying to convince people to take one of their unaccredited courses instead of one of our Fully Accredited courses.
Here is the rebuttal that you can copy and paste:
https://teflonlinepro.com/refutation-of-allegations-made-by-our-business-competitors/
We are certain that there will be more comments added to this "complaint" - all written by one of the five competitors mentioned above - and we will just let them waste their energy writing their comments and using click farms to upvote and downvote, while we concentrate on our customers and the products and services that we provide.
There is a reason that TEFL Online Pro has won the Teachers' Choice Award four years in a row, and there is a reason why our customers have to date only left 4 and 5-Star reviews of our program.
We will conclude this final comment with a reminder of the type of business competitor that we are having to deal with:
https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/x-online-tefl-course-scams/
Kind regards,
Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro
Rebuttal: https://teflonlinepro.com/refutation-of-allegations-made-by-our-business-competitors/
For the past few months, James has been spamming the internet with a misinformation campaign against TEFL Online Pro.
More recently, it was brought to our attention that James has started a Google Ads smear campaign against us.
A screenshot of an email is attached, showing proof of this and showing the typical response from the owner of ITT International TEFL and TESOL Ltd.
Yes, this is where we are with regard to business competitor drama.
TEFL Online Pro has responded to the smear campaign with a rebuttal on the TEFL Online Pro school website:
https://teflonlinepro.com/refutation-of-allegations-made-by-our-business-competitors/
Related content:
https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/itt-international-tefl-and-tesol-blacklisted-warning/
Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro
Please refer to our rebuttal statement for clarification regarding the intentions behind the misleading and defamatory comments:
https://teflonlinepro.com/refutation-of-allegations-made-by-our-business-competitors/
Thank you.
Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro
https://teflonlinepro.com/refutation-of-allegations-made-by-our-business-competitors/
Kind regards,
Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro
The Online TEFL/TESOL industry is largely unregulated and one of the negative features of this is manifested in how some Online TEFL/TESOL programs feel that they can write rubbish about their business competitors online.
We began noticing the defamatory posts popping up online (written by our business competitors) soon after winning the Teachers' Choice Award for the first time, in 2019.
None of the above have taken a TEFL Online Pro certification course.
All of the above are our business competitors - ESLinsider (a TEFL program run by Ian Leahy) being the main culprit. MyTEFL and The TEFL Academy are also not shy about spreading false information about their business competition online.
Trusted TEFL Reviews is an independent TEFL reviews website. The only connection that TEFL Online Pro has with Trusted TEFL Reviews is that our verified customer reviews are published there.
A simple search of the Trusted TEFL Reviews Facebook page will show that their Facebook page was created almost a year later than the TEFL Online Pro Facebook page.
For verified TEFL Online Pro student reviews - i.e, reviews written by our customers and not by our business competitors - please refer to the TEFL Online Pro Facebook page, the TEFL Online Pro YouTube page, or the TEFL Online Pro verified customer reviews published on Trusted TEFL Reviews:
https://www.facebook.com/teflonlinepro/reviews/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClXwokXQobRwONVOEVqsEBA
https://trustedteflreviews.com/
We would like to politely request that our business competitors, who have published their comments on this page, instead focus their efforts on providing the best possible experience for their customers.
Thank you for taking the time to read this rebuttal, and thank you to Complaints Board for publishing it.
Kind regards,
Paul Murphy
Operations Manager
info@teflonlinepro.com
teflonlinepro.com
Teachers' Choice Award winner, 2019 | 2020
I wanted to write a TEFL Online Pro review because I completed the teflonlinepro.com program and I am shocked at many of the comments written on this page.
My TEFL Online Pro experience was similar to Catherine and Elissa's. That is to say that I thought the program was excellent. Perhaps this is why this program gets a lot of heat from its competitors? I can understand it. If I were a competitor of TEFL Online Pro, I would be worried if I were not able to up my game to their level.
I'm going to briefly go over the positives of the program and then list a few areas in which I thought there was room for improvement.
The positives were:
A. The course (120-Hour Professional) was mid-priced when compared to other program options. I didn't want to buy a really cheap course and I didn't want to overspend either. The course fee was in the Goldilocks zone for me.
B. There were various options with which to purchase the course. I chose to purchase using my Amex card, but I could also have paid via my Paypal account. I view both options as safe and secure. It was just easier for me to pay with my credit card.
C. The course has online tutor support at no extra charge, so it's included in the course price. My tutor was only a phone call, email, or private message away. Never had to wait more than a few hours for a reply when I sent an email or PM. Phone calls were always answered.
D. I really loved the self-paced study aspect of the course. This meant I could log in to the course whenever I wanted and start off from where I last left off.
E. Within a few seconds of purchasing my course, I received an email with my login password and username. This program doesn't have specific start dates so you can begin when you want to. I chose to begin right away and it took me about three weeks to complete everything.
F. The course works on the modular system with multiple-choice questions after each one. These mini tests after each module were a lot less stressful and a lot more fun than having to do one final exam at the end.
G. The course is interactive with many activities and games that I have been using in my classes since completing the course.
H. My course certificate was delivered to me within a day of course completion. I opted for the digital certificate. There is also the option of a hardcopy certificate. I might get this one as well later on but so far the digital certificate has been good for online and in-person teaching jobs (Cambodia and Vietnam). I did think I needed a physical copy of my TEFL/TESOL certificate for the Vietnam work visa application, but as it turns out the digital TEFL/TESOL certificate is fine. Some teachers have said they were asked for the physical copy, so definitely check before you apply. It looks like it depends on where you are applying for your work visa and which type of school you will be teaching at?
I. As well as support being excellent during the course, it was also excellent after the course. Paul Murphy helped me find my first online teaching job and he also helped me find my in-person teaching job where I'm teaching now (Cambodia).
The room for possible improvements were:
A. I would have liked to have had the option to pay for the course using crypto currency. I checked and none of these TEFL/TESOL programs offer this payment option. As mainstream adoption of crypto advances, I hope TEFL Online Pro embraces it as an additional payment option.
B. The first module was too easy and it made me question whether I had made the right choice of TEFL/TESOL program. I understand the need to gradually assimilate students into the course, but felt the first module was generally a filler module.
C. One of the questions in Module three seemed to me like it was a trick question. I took it up with my tutor and she replied that it is there to prevent students from skim-viewing the content and heading straight for the quiz and that it encourages students to fully take in the content in the modules. I do understand this logic, but I still think there is no need for (what I saw as being) a trick question.
As you can see, the positives of the TEFL Online Pro program outweighed the negatives.
I'm currently living and working in Siem Reap, where I teach English to a range of students. I also teach some online classes still because I developed close relationships with these students and I want to keep improving their lives through my English teaching.
I am moving on from Cambodia very soon. I've been accepted for a teaching job (teaching English) in Hanoi and all of my paperwork has now been given the green stamp of approval by the powers that be in Vietnam. I move there in two months to begin teaching at an international school.
I hope I can still keep a hold of my online students. I'm gonna try my best to but the job in Vietnam means more in-person teaching hours and some mandatory teacher meetings.
I recommend teaching in Cambodia. I've absolutely love the people, culture, food, and the general vibe.
My reason for moving to Vietnam is purely financial. I'll be earning three times more there than what I've been earning here, and Vietnam isn't so much more expensive than Cambodia.
Do I recommend TEFL Online Pro? Yes.
Have I recommended TEFL Online Pro to other people? Yes.
Do I recommend teaching English online? Yes.
Do I recommend teaching English in Cambodia? Yes.
Do I recommend teaching English in Vietnam? I'll find out very soon!
I was scammed by TEFL Online Pro. The course was terrible and I wasn't learning anything. However, I did complete the course because I had a job offer from an online company. I finally received my certification 2 months after completing the course, but the certificate looked like it was simply printed out of a poor low cost printer. It was embarrassing to look at.
I gave it to my employer and he said they would not accept the certificate because TEFL online kro has a bad reputation and is not a registered business corporation. I wasted so much time with this fraudulent company.
Luckily I filled a dispute with PayPal and got my money back.
You should stay away from TEFL online pro, it's a big scam
We can confirm that we have never had a customer take one of our courses with the name 'Jeff Peterson'.
Considering the inconsistencies in "Jeff's" review, together with the sudden surge of green tick Likes for his post, we can only assume that this is yet another misinformation attack post by James Anthony Dwyer - ITT International TEFL and TESOL Ltd., and World TEFL Institute.
You can read all about him:
Please, do your research when choosing which Online TEFL/TESOL certification course to take.
It is a crowded marketplace and some unaccredited programs, such as the ones run by James Dwyer, will write any old trash online about their competitors; the sole intention of which is to sell more of their subpar courses.
We feel we have said all we need to regarding this complaint now.
Anyone interested in further resources can refer to the TEFL Scams notice on the TEFL Online Pro website:
https://teflonlinepro.com/scams/
Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro
You stated on your website
When TEFL Online Pro established a business account with PayPal, in 2019, we had to provide documents showing our business registration, as well as a recent tax assessment statement.
However, when I try to find your business registration I can't find your company anywhere. Why don't you just tell the people your business company number? Why when people send you emails asking you to prove your real name and business registration, you don't reply? All these accusations could be squashed by you if you just prove who you really are.
The fact is, you're a scam and the evidence is clear. You would have to be completely stupid to think otherwise.
And btw, you do not need to show evidence of business registration to have a PayPal account. Anyone with ID can create a PayPal business account.
This comment by one of TEFL Online Pro's competitors is pure misinformation.
You can fact-check it on the Paypal Business website - https://www.paypal.com/us/business/open-business-account.
I should know - I opened a Paypal Business Account and had to submit a lot of documents before they would grant me a Paypal Business account.
If I had to guess, ITT International TEFL and TESOL Ltd and World TEFL Institute had their Paypal Business Account rescinded, and that is why they are now claiming that Stipe is a better alternative.
Paypal and Stripe have the exact same requirements for companies when they want to open a Business Account and accept online payments.
I experienced business competitors trying to damage my business because they wanted my business, so I know what it is like.
They will write anything and hope people fall for their lies.
Why do I think ITT International TEFL and TESOL Ltd. and World TEFL Institute (both run by James Anthony Dwyer) were kicked off Paypal?
Here is a big clue - https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Security-and-Fraud-Archives/Scam-website-lt-removed-gt/td-p/2287428
Folks, if you have to choose between TEFL Online Pro and ITT then choose TEFL Online Pro.
I took the course and am having success with the certificate.
All of the negative comments on this page that have obviously been written by their competitors just don't make any sense and don't add up.
If you see a comment with a large number of upvotes or downvotes, it's because someone (James Dwyer) paid a click farm to have it done.
Trust me and take the TEFL Online Pro course.
It's Fully Accredited and the post-course job support is excellent.
Catherine.
Are you certain you have the right company?
I'm writing about TEFL Online Pro.
Last week I decided to get the hardcopy certificate and it arrived in the post today.
It's heavy certification paper and it looks very professional.
Definitely not what you have described.
I'm a teflonlinepro.com graduate, having taken their 120-Hour Professional certification course earlier this year. I don't understand all the hate on this page because the course content and tutor support was as promised (excellent). It did what it said it would and for the price I paid I was super happy with the course and the outcome. I started teaching English online and I have recently been accepted for a full-time ESL teaching position in Germany, starting in September 2023. I can see that the TEFL space is very competitive and it is a shame when I read comments written by teflonlinepro's competitors that are clearly designed to discredit the company. I paid for the course with my credit card, but Paypal was also an option. Over a million and a half companies within the USA use Paypal and WooCommerce as their payment gateway. I used to use Paypal for my online company and I know first hand the documents that I had to supply just to be able to run a Paypal business account. I don't know anything about the TEFL Academy or ITT International TEFL and TESOL, but if this is the way they attack a business competitor then my advice is to stay well clear of both those companies. Thanks for reading my teflonlinepro.com review. Catherine.
This comment is really from Neville Thomas the owner of TEFL online pro and trustedteflreviews.com. Neville you can try to write fake comments all you like but the evidence is stacked against you. The fact is, you're a fraud! The tone of this comment pure defensive
To see factual evidence of this fraud, read this article.
https://internationaltefltesol.com/tefl-certification-scams/
Hello Catherine,
Thank you very much for your TEFL Online Pro review. We really appreciate your feedback!
Wishing you teaching English success in Germany, and we look forward to working with you again in the future!
Kind regards,
Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro
The Teachers’ Choice Award winner in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022
https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-teachers-choice-award-winner-2022/
Wow! :)
That's really clutching at straws!
Catherine.
Thank you, TEFL Online Pro!
You folks are awesome!
Just ignore the business competitor noise and continue your excellent work!
Catherine.
I was thinking of taking TEFL Online Pro, but I have found so many negative things about them. When I searched for reviews, most of the first page on Google was negative. I honestly don't know who to believe any longer. Their director, Paul, says that all of these complaints are from competing schools and that he is not this scammer Neville Tomas. Paul, why not just prove you are a real person? You must have ID or a LinkedIn as a professional person? Everyone has this. I don't know why you just do not do this and win the argument and defend TEFL Online Pro. I
This is (yet again) another post by James Anthony Dwyer - owner of ITT International TEFL and TESOL Ltd., and World TEFL Institute.
James has been spreading misinformation about our company for the past few months.
He does this on a regular basis to his business competitors.
Related complaint: ITT International TEFL and TESOL Ltd — Level 3-5 tefl courses online |
This is (yet again) another post by James Anthony Dwyer - owner of ITT International TEFL and TESOL Ltd., and World TEFL Institute.
James has been spreading misinformation about our company for the past few months.
He does this on a regular basis to his business competitors.
Related complaint: ITT International TEFL and TESOL Ltd — Level 3-5 tefl courses online |
I think it's funny how you think every comment is made by me James Dwyer. The fact is, you have many haters online because of the way you trash reputable TEFL course providers. But when you trashed me online that was it. I am now exposing your scam by way of Facebook and Google ads and I don't care how much money it costs.
Every time Someone types TEFL Online pro into Google they will see my ad. Anyone that is interested in a TEFL course will see my ad on Facebook which has very concluding evidence that you are a complete scam artist. I will not stop!
I have already had quite a few of your potential students thank me for exposing you and I'm really happy that I could help them people from being scammed by a psychotic human being that frankly needs help.
Anyone that reads this and has been affected by Neville should contact me at contact@internationaltefltesol.com and we can work together to take this scam artist down.
Hello James Dwyer,
Yet again another defamatory post from you and yet another one without any merit.
Yet again another post that you have had a click farm upvote.
We advise everyone reading this to take everything that James Anthony Dwyer (a business competitor) says or writes with a healthy dose of skepticism, and to read the related content so that you are fully aware of the type of individual whom you are dealing with.
We would advise James to spend some time with his family and not to spend it, instead, writing rubbish about our company online and then paying a click farm to upvote his content.
Related content:
Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro
Anyone can get a business PayPal account but you cant get a credit card processor like stripe on your website without a business registration. TEFL online pro claims to have an office in New York. This must mean you have a business registered in the US. Why don't you simply reply to my comment and tell us your business registration number so we can confirm online? What is your tax number? The fact is, you are not a registered company and is therefore selling courses illegally. You're a sad sad person, you have no business sense and youre a loser. The companies you mention are not your competitors. Your fake tefl course is right at the bottom of the chain. My ads are really working well and I have saved many people from your scam. I will continue to run my ads until you are no more.
Yes it's true of you apply for a basic Paypal account but if you want a Paypal business account, you need to supply proof of business registration and a copy of the previous year's tax records. Stripe is exactly the same. teflonlinepro.com has been with Paypal since 2019 (they mention it on their website) so it wouldn't be possible to run their company on a basic Paypal account for so many years. When I had my online business, I started out with the basic Paypal account and I just had to get the Business account or I wouldn't have been able to operate as a business. I have a suspicion that the person writing this false comment used to have a Paypal Business account but was kicked off the platform. How do I know? I read it here in the Paypal forum - https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Security-and-Fraud-Archives/Scam-website-lt-removed-gt/td-p/2287428 . Catherine.
This comment was so obviously click farmed and so obviously written by a competing company.
When I was choosing which TEFL and TESOL course to take, I found many positive reviews for teflonlinepro.com, on their Google Page, on their Facebook page, on Trusted TEFL Reviews. I just ignored the negative comments on this page because anyone can see they are just written by other TEFL companies. what a way to spend your time on this planet that God have given you! I will pray for you. Catherine.
TEFL Online pro sell online courses illegally https://internationaltefltesol.com/tefl-online-pro-reviews/
This is shameful self-promotion by the owner of ITT International TEFL and TESOL Ltd - James Anthony Dwyer; one of our business competitors.
As you can see, the TEFL marketplace is extremely competitive and some rogue programs act in the way that James does; writing made-up garbage that anyone can see is without merit.
All we will add here is that we would never contemplate purchasing from a company that so openly defames a competitor online.
Related complaint:
ITT International TEFL and TESOL Ltd review: Level 3-5 tefl courses online |
I'm a TEFL teacher, living in Seville, Spain. I graduated from the TEFL Online Pro program over summer 2022. It was an affordable training program compared with some of the others I saw online and I felt I received very good bang for my buck. Included in the course was 24-Hour access to my online tutor and post-course jobs support. I wanted to move to Spain for a while and having the international TEFL certificate gave me a reason to be here. I decided on Seville because of the climate and its closeness to the southern beaches/coastline. There is a lot of work here for TEFL teachers. Schools do expect you to have a 120-Hour TEFL/TESOL certificate and one that is fully accredited, and my TEFL Online Pro teaching certificate was accepted as the main document for my work visa. I also recommend TEFL Online Pro's TESOL program online. My advice is to ignore its business competitors and believe the customer reviews. I fully understand that the TEFL business is cut-throat competitive. I used to own an online business and I know how ruthless competitors can be. Always go with your gut and take on board the verified reviews. Don't get distracted by other programs that are just basically trying to grab your business. I wanted to write a tip for anyone thinking of making the move to Seville, and that is to be aware that the school year starts in September and ends some time in June. So try getting here in early September if you want the pick of the best jobs. I've heard a second hiring season starts in January, but I can't guarantee whether that's true or not because I've just been teaching here since September. Good luck all new TEFL teachers and definitely take a look at the TEFL Online Pro program!
Elissa, thank you for the great review! We're so happy you loved your TEFL Online Pro experience.
Yes, as you can see from all the comments (and the original post) that have been written by our business competitors, we are operating in an extremely competitive field.
It looks extremely likely that one of our competitors paid a click farm to vote up (green) all of the negative comments and vote down (red) all of the positive comments in this thread.
This is where we are with regards to competing Online TEFL program drama.
For verified TEFL Online Pro reviews, please read and view our customers' feedback on our Facebook page, Trusted TEFL Reviews, and on our YouTube channel.
https://www.facebook.com/teflonlinepro/reviews/
https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-teachers-choice-award-winner-2022/
https://www.youtube.com/@teflonlinepro
TEFL Online Pro does not own or operate Facebook, Trusted TEFL Reviews, or YouTube.
Wishing you continued teaching English success in Sevilla, and we look forward to working with you again in the future!
Happy New Year!
Kind regards,
Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro
info@teflonlinepro.com
https://teflonlinepro.com/enroll/
https://www.facebook.com/teflonlinepro/reviews/
The Teachers’ Choice Award winner in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022
https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-teachers-choice-award-winner-2022/
Fake review obviously. TEFL Online Pro sell courses illegally https://internationaltefltesol.com/tefl-online-pro-reviews/
This is yet another comment posted by James Anthony Dwyer, the owner of ITT International TEFL and TESOL Ltd. and World TEFL Institute.
We have reported James to the UK Trading Standards and are proceeding with a defamation case against him.
Related content:
Hello Neville, pretending to be someone that took the course.
All these positive comments on here have been written by the scam artist Neville.
TEFL online pro and trusted tefl reviews are a scam. If you ask them to provide id or a business registration number from a government website, they won't provide this very easy to access information. This is because it's a scam. It's as simple as that.
Hello James Dwyer,
It's Saturday and you have decided to spend your free time to continue your online defamation.
You are projecting. Just because you fake reviews for your company, it doesn't mean that other companies do the same.
Please leave our customers alone and focus on your own customers.
Related content:
https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/itt-international-tefl-and-tesol-blacklisted-warning/
Paul Murphy | Operations Manger | TEFL Online Pro
This is obviously a fake comment written by the scam artist crazy Nev
It's incredible the lengths that some Online TEFL programs will go to, in order to try and discredit a competing Online TEFL program; writing an attack post on the day before Christmas and then clicking repeatedly on the green Like button for an hour or so to make it seem that their comment is popular.
People are not silly, competing Online TEFL program.
They can see that this is an attack job by one or more competing Online TEFL programs.
It's actually pretty embarrassing that, as a business competitor, you choose to waste your time like this.
Perhaps, you could spend another hour clicking that green Like button?
The proof is always in the pudding.
Check out verified customer reviews and make up your mind for yourself.
You can read and view these on Facebook, Trusted TEFL Reviews, and YouTube.
TEFL Online Pro does not own Facebook, Trusted TEFL Reviews, or YouTube.
https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-teachers-choice-award-winner-2022/
https://www.facebook.com/teflonlinepro/reviews/
https://www.youtube.com/@teflonlinepro
I have already had a face-to-face video call with one competing Online TEFL program and I am not going to waste more of my time trying to disprove conspiracy theories.
I have much more important work to do as the Operations Manager at TEFL Online Pro.
It is 100% certain that the competitor attacks will continue in 2023, as they have done so since 2019, but, regardless, I wish all our competitors that have written comments and that have feverishly clicked the green Like button a happy, healthy, and successful 2023!
Kind regards,
Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro
It's incredible the lengths that TEFL Online Pro will go to hide who they are. All of these comments from students are most likely fake. As a reminder, TEFL Online Pro is owned by one guy and his name is Neville Thomas. He is a scam artist with a long history of ripping people off. Trusted TEFL reviews is also Neville Thomas. The 'accreditation company' for TEFL Online Pro is also Neville Thomas.
There is no Mia, Paul, or anyone else. It's just Neville Thomas.
Do a google search and you'll see problems with this guy going back 10 plus years.
The story of Neville would be tragic if he wasn't such an unethical person. I believe it's clear that Neville has something legitimately wrong with him, a person who simply cannot function as a normally or ethically. In short, a real case of a pathological liar who can't help himself. Seriously, who lies this much? Why? Think of all the work that went into hiding his identify only to have it blow up in his face.
I understand that the internet is filled with lies and mistruths. It's easy to read what I am writing and think I'm just trying to 'slander another online TEFL course'. Here's the proof though...
Aside from everything that has been written about TEFL online Pro and Trusted TEFL Reviews, if you want check the validity of these claims, just have Mia or Paul prove who they say they are. They won't. Try to speak to them on the phone... they won't do it. Ask them for any kind of proof that they exist... they won't provide it.
They will write endlessly how they are attacked online by other TEFL courses and bla bla ba bla, but they never address the concerns levied against them. Trust me, I've tried.
Is this a TEFL course or TEFL review site that you can trust? Of course not. It's all Neville Thomas, so don't be fooled. Neville, you need help.
It really is incredible that one of our business competitors took the time, on December 24th, to write yet another attack comment; continuing then to spend probably an hour or so clicking the little green Like button for their comment so as to make their comment appear popular.
Yes, this is where we are with regards to competing Online TEFL program drama.
For verified TEFL Online Pro reviews, please read and view our customers' feedback on our Facebook page, Trusted TEFL Reviews, and on our YouTube channel.
https://www.facebook.com/teflonlinepro/reviews/
https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-teachers-choice-award-winner-2022/
https://www.youtube.com/@teflonlinepro
TEFL Online Pro does not own or operate Facebook, Trusted TEFL Reviews, or YouTube.
Regarding the conspiracy theories, written by our business competitors, we will leave it up to you, the reader, to weigh the legitimacy of our verified customer reviews and the legitimacy of our competitor attacks.
I must add that I did hold a face-to-face with one such competitor, but at TEFL Online Pro we have far more important tasks on the agenda - customer service tasks - than to spend our time answering conspiracy theories and clicking little green Like or little red Dislike buttons.
The Online TEFL marketplace is supercharged-competitive and this is plainly obvious from the original post and subsequent comments.
What does bother us is when a customer takes the time to write a review and then is accused of being a fake persona by our business competitors.
This is simply our competitors projecting.
Despite this, we do sincerely wish the business competitors that have written an attack comment and who have feverishly clicked on the little green Like button on their posts a happy, healthy, and successful 2023!
Kind regards,
Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro
This complaint was written by James Anthony Dwyer; owner of ITT International TEFL and TESOL Ltd. and World TEFL Institute.
It was written on December 24th.
James then paid a click farm to upvote his complaint.
He has done this on all of the posts that have either a high number of upvotes or a high number of downvotes.
He has been called out for this when responding to one of his customers, whose information he doxed and sold on the dark web:
We have reported James Anthony Dwyer to the UK Trading Standards, and are proceeding with legal action against him for defamation.
Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro
When I was choosing the right TESOL course to take, I did come across this complaint.
At first, it was a bit shocking but then I saw that a student hadn't written the complaint and no students had written comments.
I read the reviews on trustedteflreviews and on Facebook and went with my gut feeling and enrolled in the program.
I just completed the 120-Hour Professional TESOL course from TEFL Online Pro.
Everything went smoothly.
The support has been excellent and so was the course.
Already have a few job interviews lined up and one job offer.
It's such a shame that competing TESOL programs would write like they have on this complaint.
It put me off even considering them when I was making my program choice.
I recommend TEFL Online Pro's TESOL program.
(A real customer and not a competitor)
Hello Angela,
Thank you very much for your 120-Hour Professional Online TEFL/TESOL certification course review.
We really appreciate your feedback!
Wishing you teaching English success, and we look forward to working with you again in the future!
Happy New Year!
Kind regards,
Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro
info@teflonlinepro.com
https://teflonlinepro.com/enroll/
https://www.facebook.com/teflonlinepro/reviews/
The Teachers’ Choice Award winner in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022
https://trustedteflreviews.com/category/tefl-online-pro-teachers-choice-award-winner-2022/
I have experience of the ITT International TEFL and TESOL Ltd online program; the one that was created by James Anthony Dwyer- a Brit living in the Philippines.
It is a scam!
Type "ITT International TEFL and TESOL Ltd scam" into Google and you will see many complaints about the program and its owner.
I was sucker-punched by the course fee and the certificate fee because I couldn't get the certificate legalized. Why not? ITT International TEFL and TESOL Ltd is a fake TEFL company operating out of a unit in the Philippines Cebu City.
Go with a reputable TEFL company.
Some much better programs are CIEE TEFL, Maximo Nivel TEFL, OISE University of Toronto TEFL, TEFL Online Pro, Vantage TEFL.
Avoid ITT International TEFL and TESOL Ltd like the plague!
James Anthony Dwyer is a scam artist.
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Fake Reviews and Terrible Accommodation
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.
To give you a background on my situation, I participated on the ITTP TEFL program in late 2011 in Prague. The course was ok (although after talking to other TEFL graduates from other TEFL courses it sounds as though there were better options in Prague). But the accommodation we were sold with the course was terrible and prices extortionate. There were multiple problems and to sum it up, we were all ripped off badly. Neville’s contempt and attitude towards us made matters worse and what was meant to be an enjoyable learning experience, turned into the course from hell as we were jammed into tiny accommodation with moldy rooms, broken beds, we had to clean the accommodation ourselves, internet barely worked and had 9 people sharing one toilet. This would be no problem if the prices were cheap but they were very top end, comparative to hotel living.
However, my motivation for writing to you is not because of that experience, it is my frustrations since leaving the course and revelations of dirty tactics and deceit by ITTP over the past 6 months which have forced this email. The efforts that this company and its owner Neville Thomas go to, to mislead potential clients and try to hide the truth that are disgraceful and need to be shared.
By the time we finished the TEFL program with ITTP we were all very upset and naturally went online to voice our displeasure and warn others of the “accommodation scam” that was being run by Neville and ITTP. This was where the serious issues started to arise and where my frustrations really began. As I searched online I could not find a great deal of independent reviews of ITTP (reviews not on the ITTP website) and the limited reviews I did find were gushingly good. Given I did not meet a single classmate in my time of the course who would rate the program anywhere near 10/10, I immediately smelt a rat. Outlined below are my experiences with the different review sites and how Neville has influenced them (or owns them).
TEFL Course Review - http://www.teflcoursereview.com/
I posted on this site along with a number of my classmates clearly outlining our displeasure at the shabby accommodation and terrible experience we had. After a few weeks all the reviews were removed and ITTP was completely removed from the website. On investigation we found out that Neville had threatened to sue this company and after continual harassment from Neville, the owner had just removed all comment of ITTP from the reviews site to stop Neville harassing him.
Abroad Reviews – http://www.abroadreviews.com/
Again, myself and a number of classmates posted onto this site giving ITTP bad ratings in the process as our experience was terrible. The reviews stayed there for a while but were littered with clearly fake positive reviews in between the negative ones. Finally, after a few months we received an email from the owner of this site saying they were removing our reviews. Neville had got lawyers involved, was going to sue for defamation of his company and had even gone so far as to visit the owner of the review site at his family home in London! In order to stop the harassment and legal threats, the owner had caved in was going to remove our reviews - some limited positive and negative reviews did remain though. ITTP was completely removed from this reviews site last week prompting me to take action. I have emailed the administrators of the site, twice since then asking them to reinstate ITTP and this is the reply I got - I am sorry but we are not interested in having ITTP on our site any more. I appreciate the fact you are frustrated but we do not want to our waste our time with him. Neville would relentlessly email us threatening legal action and he even visited one of the admin of the site at their flat in London after he got his personal details. He would call and text with legal threats. There were positive reviews popping up on the site for ITTP which we could not verify and were coming from IPs within Prague and any negative reviews he would threaten legal action for defamation. The final straw was last week when he emailed about 20 times in the space of a week giving us a deadline or legal action and will be suing for $1000 every day (loss of one customer per day) his company was mentioned on our site. It is not worth our time to have him on there. His company is a hassle. Abroad Reviews receives over 400 unique visitors per day and the way we see it, he is not getting access to any of them. We would prefer no more emails on this from you, as we will not be changing our mind. You need to find another site. We realize what he is doing is wrong but we do not have the funding or time to keep dealing with him. We are tired of him.
TEFL Reviews - http://tefl-reviews.com/
This website it turns out has either incredibly poor ethics or more likely is owned by Neville and ITTP. I had tried to post on this site in the past and my review had always been rejected. Funnily enough, despite the fact ITTP has terrible rankings elsewhere, it was the top ranked company on this website and my past negative reviews had never appeared. I was suspicious, so as a test, myself and other classmates tried to post under an alias this past month and within 2 hours of posting, Neville (the owner of the company I was supposed to be reviewing confidentially) had my email address, contact details and IP address. Is this legal? Can a TEFL company own what is supposed to be an “independent, unbiased reviews website”? I would advise all TEFL companies with listings on this site to get them removed immediately from this website and take action against ITTP if you are listed on here.
What this means is the only review website Neville now has his company on is his own reviews website - TEFL Reviews. He is using a review website under the guise of being "independent" to promote his own company and run down other TEFL companies after threatening other review sites so they removed ITTP.
Needless to say, I am incredibly upset, my classmates are upset and this is no longer about our experience, rather the fact Neville tries so hard to mislead potential clients. Review site owners will no longer receive our reviews, citing they no longer wish to be “harassed or threatened by the owner of ITTP”. Is that right that a company can hide their company performance through bullying and threatening review websites?
Neville’s response to this publicly has always been that the reason our reviews are removed from review sites is because they rant and are not reviews. His claims that the reviews are removed because they are “defamation” are not true and if you ask any of the owners of TEFL Course Reviews or Abroad Reviews, they will confirm that Neville harasses them and threatens them legally to have the reviews removed. They have both explicitly told me in emails in the past when I have complained that the reviews have been removed.
Here is a link to my blog where I fill it up with complaints about ITTP - http://ittp-tefl-reviews.blogspot.com/
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer's satisfaction.
I would like to chime in because this thread has been hijacked by ESLinsider and The TEFL Academy (TTA).
I ran ITTP for ten years and in that time ITTP graduated hundreds of TEFL students.
ITTP was not a scam.
Every on-site TEFL program has one or two really bad groups, and, unfortunately, ITTP had one or two really bad groups toward the end of its operating.
Yes, TEFL students were charged more than the going long-term rate for accommodation.
ITTP was a business and accommodation was an additional revenue stream for ITTP.
However, the accommodation was short-term and located bang in the centre of Prague.
Given its location and short-term aspect, it still represented good value for money.
Anyway, that was over ten years ago now so I'm not going to get into another dialogue about how many people shared a toilet in 2011.
What I would like to address is how this thread has been hijacked by ESLinsider and The TEFL Academy (TTA).
Both TEFL programs have dragged my name through the mud in a precise attempt at character assassination.
ESLinsider and The TEFL Academy have used ridiculous usernames in this thread to post defamatory content.
I have never run a TEFL reviews website.
ITTP was not a scam.
I would advise Rhyan O'Sullivan and Thomas Gibbons, the business owner and operations manager, to prepare for a Cease and Desist letter from my lawyer, followed by a Pre-Court Notice.
You can't character-assassinate someone and expect there to be no consequences.
Regarding Ian Patrick Leahy from ESLinsider, he lives in New Hampshire and is protected by aggressive free-speech laws.
As legal action against him would likely bear no fruit, please allow me to fill you in on his details:
Ian Patrick Leahy runs the ESLinsider TEFL program. It is an unaccredited TEFL program and Ian has been accused of defrauding his customers.
Trusted TEFL Reviews (which I do not own or run) exposed Ian for defrauding his customers and Ian gradually lost business because of it.
This resulted in Ian having to leave Japan, where he was living, and move back in with his mum in New Hampshire.
How has Ian earned a living since?
He still runs the ESLinsider TEFL program; hoping that once in a while he will have someone sign up and pay.
He spent a few years trying to carve a new identity online by reviewing snowboarding equipment, which was convenient because he has been working manual jobs on ski slopes for the past two years.
Currently, Ian is in Oregon where he is completing his summer work on the slopes.
I tracked down his unofficial Reddit profiles and noticed that he was asking about illegal job (visa-free) opportunities in Chile and New Zealand.
I took it upon myself to contact the authorities of both countries to let them know.
Thank you for your time.
Neville David Thomas
Hi I attended Neville's course he made me retake it online said I had plagiarised when I hadn't got more cash out of us. The accommodation was the same we had 7 of us sharing 2 girls and the rest were boys. I only just found this as I was looking for a lad from our class Ben. I was with my ex boyfriend at the time. I totally don't rate this man Neville he is a scam be warned before he gets more money out of you.
Clarification as to who has been adding the vast majority of comments in this complaint:
https://teflonlinepro.com/refutation-of-allegations-made-by-our-business-competitors/
Kind regards,
Paul Murphy | Operations Manager | TEFL Online Pro
Hi Philippa,
I came across this page because it is incorrectly linked to a different online TEFL company - TEFL Online Pro.
TEFL Online Pro has absolutely nothing to do with ITTP.
If you had an issue with a course that you took around 2012 (this complaint is from then) don't you feel that it is a little odd to be adding a comment now - 10 years later after the event?
It is so easy for anyone to write that so and so, or such and such, is a "scam".
What isn't so easy is to place a real identity with such claims.
If you felt that you were scammed, then that is a horrible experience and our sympathies are with you.
It just feels like a red flag, though, that you should write so emotionally about an experience that happened around 10 years ago - an experience that (TBH) doesn't really sound like a scam.
I did a bit of digging into ITTP and I see that it was in operation for around 15 years.
It appears to have had mostly very positive reviews, except for a handful of negative reviews that all seem to be written by the same few people.
My advice would be to move on with your life and I hope that you are able to reconnect with your friend, Ben.
His new scam is TEFL Online Pro, Trusted TEFL reviews and ACTEFLC. This time he calls himself Paul Murphy on TEFL online pro, Mia Williams on Trusted TEFL reviews and Chris Haines on ACTEFLC. It's a similar story to this. Fake stuff and lies:
TEFL Online Pro — A potential fraudulent company backed by a fake tefl review site
There is no TEFL Online Pro scam.
TEFL Online Pro receives consistently positive (verified) customer feedback; Trusted TEFL Reviews, Facebook, and YouTube being three good examples of this.
There are, however, a small number of business competitors that have far too much free time on their hands and who are most certainly not shy about spreading false information online about their competitors.
TEFL Online Pro has responded to these baseless and misleading accusations, on the TEFL Online Pro school website:
https://teflonlinepro.com/refutation-of-allegations-made-by-our-business-competitors/
It's really unfortunate that ESLinsider/Ian Leahy, MyTEFL, and The TEFL Academy/Thomas Gibbons/Caitriona McTiernan choose to market their (unaccredited) TEFL courses by launching attacks on their business competitors.
Please stop. Thank you.
Thank you for providing us with the opportunity of explaining our side to the story. Our official response to Mr Kyle Joseph Britto's online comments can be viewed here:
https://medium.com/@ITTPTEFLOnline/is-ittp-tefl-online-a-scam-3bb5c826c253
Anyone with any questions or comments should please feel free to contact me directly, using the email address listed below.
Thank you for your time.
Neville David Thomas
Online Managing Director
ITTP: International Tefl Tesol Program
web: http://www.tefl-tesol-online.com
Email: web@tefl-tesol-online.com
Skype: ITTPrague
So many anonymous reviewers, all stating the same complaint and in the same writing style LOL.
ittp don't run residential courses anymore so i guess your poor attempt at trying to defame this school has backfired.
i completely agree with Casey's review, as a ittp tefl online graduate myself.
I'll be happy to set the record straight too if anyone is interested in learning the truth from a real graduate of the ittp program.
seeemilyplay1982@gmail.com
(also available on skype. email me for my skype id).
emily.
I try not to sign up for boards like this, but my experience at ITTP was so aggressively negative that I took the time for this. I did, at the time I looked into the course, check the review sites to confirm that ITTP was legitimate. I didn't find any negative reviews of the company anywhere, and only one positive review that, in hindsight, was probably Neville, considering what seems to be his style of writing ridiculously long response posts. As you can see him doing in the comment section above (and no doubt below) this post, under various aliases.
I should have known better, but you live and you learn.
As Burngirl stated above, the instructors in the courses are quite friendly and effective. They provided me with a very solid review of my English grammar skills, and even some insight on in-class teaching. I imagine there is no risk to taking the online course, for this reason. (although the person above who is still waiting for their certifications two months later may disagree)
However, it is the on site course with "accommodations" where you run the risk. To state it flatly, the accommodations are a scam. Flat out, no nuance, scam, run directly by Neville. You will be heavily overcharged for your room, and then when you leave, he will hit you with a "cleaning" charge that will blow you out of the water. If you do not pay this charge, he will keep the money you already paid him for the course and the housing, and hold your certification hostage until you give in. Being young, and a foreigner in the country, you will have very little legal recourse, and he knows it.
Avoid this company. Prague is a beautiful city with lots of other options for getting your certification. Find a better one than this. Companies prefer CELTA certifications these days anyway. I have yet to meet an employer who didn't ask me to explain what a TEFL Certification was, and when I did, they invariably said "Oh, it's like a CELTA." Just get the CELTA.
I won't be coming back to check on this review or responding to whatever comment Neville or his aliases post here, ITTP is far in the rear view in my life, and my career long ago left behind the need for a TEFL certificate, but for those of you just starting out, I hope you get a chance to read this and you heed the warnings you've been given here. Best of luck in your future pursuits, teachers!
I just completed the ITTP TEFL Online 100 hour Integrative Online course and I never experienced any of the issues outlined in the above thread. To be quite honest I laughed out loud to myself when I read them because they are obviously fabricated by someone who has it in for the company. Anyone considering ITTP for their online TEFL course can feel free to contact me via email if you want to hear from someone who actually paid and took their course:
Casey.Packwood@outlook.com
I will be happy to set the record straight.
For the record, here is my ITTP course review which I recently submitted:
I just completed the ITTP TEFL Online 100 hour Integrative Online course and here is my feedback.
I do just want to add that I took the course on the back of a friend who took the course previously, so ITTP for me wasn?t a complete blind experience.
Positives: The application procedure went very smoothly. I felt the application form questions were relevant and it only took a few days between submitting the application form online and being accepted to the course, with plenty of communication from the ITTP admin in between. There was a slight hiccup making my payment, but this was the fault of my bank and not ITTP (I didn?t know that my bank has in place an automatic block when I try and make an overseas payment). Very reassuring was that within 24 hours of my payment made I received my welcome email package from ITTP, together with my login password for the course. Communication was always prompt and professional. The course itself was very good and much more in depth than I had initially expected and made me realize all the complexities of teaching English to someone who had little or no English language skills. Logically thought out and very easy to follow (for someone like me especially who doesn?t have a lot of online study experience). My online tutor (Joe) was very attentive and helped me through any difficult sections of the course with helpful prompts. Received my certificate at the end of the course and this was a satisfactory certificate for my employer where I now teach English full-time. I thought it might be useful to ask ITTP for a reference letter in the case that I might change jobs in future and this wasn?t an issue for the ITTP admin.
Negatives: It transpires that I paid more for the course than my friend, because Matt applied and paid when they were running a course discount. I knew nothing of this and felt a little gutted that my course cost $100 more than his did (both receiving exactly the same course and services). Also, I felt that at times the course relied too much on intuitive knowledge and in particular in Module 5 I had to ask my tutor many times for his help and support to get through the module. Admittedly I did only come across this wall in the 5th module. I found this module very difficult and I breathed a huge lug of air when I completed it and progressed to Module 6. My tutor was a star, but communication at the weekends was a bit hit and miss.
Overall I can definitely recommend the ITTP TEFL Online course and the certificate has served me well. I know I can contact ITTP at any time for further support and this for me is worth its weight in gold. Just watch out for that 5th Module! :)
Casey P.
I have done an online TEFL course with ITTP based on the good reviews I read on http://tefl-reviews.com/, and the site doesn't even exist anymore.
I completed my short track course April 25th and transferred my certificate issue fee, and they got back to me saying they will issue my certificate with the next batch. However, as of right now, June 16th, it still hasn't arrived. The contact person keeps saying in reply to my emails "Yes, sometimes the certificates can take a bit of time. ", although it's hard to call almost two months a bit! It took me twice as little to do the course! And it's not even going to be a paper certificate, just an electronic copy. How can it possibly take 2 months to create a pdf document for 1 person?
If ITTP is so proud of their customer service, they could take a bit of an effort.
Anastasia K.
I’m wondering whether this is a joke because I paid and took my ITTP
Online course and very recently received my certificate and without any
of the issues described above.
I did take their combined online course, not their residential onsite course.
To be quite frank I am a very satisfied customer of ITTP.
Is it possible the above posters are somehow connected with a competitive school? Or maybe you have school names mixed up?
ITTP.
Not ITTT or ITTO.
ITTP are awesome.
Take care, Lukas
i couldn't help add my 2 cents worth because i read these posts when i was choosing my tesl course and i found that all this negative bombing of tesl schools helps absolutely nobody in the process. for what it is worth, i enjoyed my ittp tesl course experience. i wouldn't rate it a 10, but a 7 or 8 out of 10 would feel at about the right level for me, and i am not a walk-over type of person. for me it was just a course and an opportunity to experience Prague and meet a group of awesome classmates and it did this for me. i ended up teaching in Thailand on a cliche section of beach so i can attest that the certification offered by ittp is worth it's weight and i genuinely was impressed with their post course job assistance program. hey, it helped me get my slightly higher than moderately paid cliche English teaching job by the sea! overall i'd definitely recommend the investment in this course, but my advice is just don't travel to Prague and think ittp will do absolutely everything for you. They take care of you, but somethings you gotta do yourself [naturally].
i'm happy to answer any questions prospective students might have
cathy.brooke@home.in.th
Catherine.
Yes, TEFL Online Pro is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Online Learning (ACOL).
Yes, the courses offered by TEFL Online Pro are recognized worldwide.
TEFL Online Pro offers courses for teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL).
Yes, the courses offered by TEFL Online Pro are entirely online and self-paced.
The cost of the courses offered by TEFL Online Pro varies depending on the course level and duration.
Yes, TEFL Online Pro provides job placement assistance to graduates.
Yes, the courses offered by TEFL Online Pro are relatively affordable compared to other TEFL courses.
Yes, TEFL Online Pro provides a certificate of completion upon successfully finishing a course.
The length of the courses offered by TEFL Online Pro varies depending on the course level and duration.
Yes, the courses offered by TEFL Online Pro are self-paced, and learners can study at their own pace.
No, TEFL Online Pro courses do not provide specific specializations in any particular area of English language teaching.
TEFL Online Pro courses cover a wide range of topics related to teaching English as a foreign language, including lesson planning, classroom management, and teaching techniques.
There is no minimum requirement for English proficiency to enroll in TEFL Online Pro courses.
Yes, TEFL Online Pro courses are suitable for both beginners and experienced teachers.
TEFL Online Pro provides support through email and online chat.
No, there is no deadline to complete the courses offered by TEFL Online Pro.
The courses offered by TEFL Online Pro are partially interactive and provide some opportunities for learner engagement.
Yes, the courses offered by TEFL Online Pro are self-guided, and learners can study at their own pace.
TEFL Online Pro does not offer any free courses or resources at this time.
TEFL Online Pro offers a 30-day money-back guarantee for their courses.
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