Ethical TEFL is the specialist TEFL division of English Language Centre Yorkshire CIC - a registered Community Interest Company. What that means is that we are a social enterprise with a legal duty to reinvest all profits into providing training and employment opportunities for those who would not otherwise be able to access them.
Over the last 25 years there have been many changes in TEFL training, including a concerning increase in the number of sub-standard TEFL courses being sold, and a disappointing focus on quick profit rather than the quality of the student experience.
Training good TEFL teachers by distance-learning can be challenging, and requires knowledgeable, experienced tutors if it is to be done properly. All of our tutors are fully qualified professional teachers with a minimum of 15 years TEFL and distance-learning experience.
The two main barriers people can face when considering teaching English abroad are the accessibility and the affordability of quality TEFL training. Our aim is to do everything we can to reduce both of these barriers:
Accessibility:
To make our TEFL programmes as accessible as possible, all of our courses are delivered by distance-learning, which means that they can be studied anywhere in the world with an internet connection. They are also carefully designed so that each student can work at their own pace, allowing our students to fit their TEFL training around existing work/study/family commitments.
Affordability
As a social enterprise we are not fixated on profit - our success is instead determined by how many people we can help train, and help find meaningful employment. This gives us a unique freedom to tackle the affordability issue, and has led to pioneering initiatives like our Scholarship Programme , subsidies for students and unemployed graduates, as well as a consistent focus on quality and fair pricing for all of our students.