Topic: news Foreign Teacher Training Institutions: The Only Qualification Necessary is a Foreign Face

I have worked in the recruitment department of my company a few times now. The requirements are simply being a native speaker and having a degree of any sort. The company requires you send a cv (resume) and a copy of your passport page. The cv is straight forward. They want to know what experience you have, what education, etc... The passport on the other hand... is to make sure the teacher is white. I was very suprised when I first worked in the HR department. I was told no blacks or muslims. No black people because the schools can't accept that there are black people who are native speakers and no muslims because the government is restricting access to visas from all muslim countries. When there are not many native speakers available there seems to be no problem with "lowering" the standards to non native europeans (that means white europeans, kiddos). Since I am also a manager in charge of training the new teachers I can tell you that some of the teachers have English levels and/or accents that simply are not acceptable for an English teacher. It seems they would prefer qualified teachers but they don't mind unqualified teachers too.