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ajdo · Fri 25-Aug-06, 01:19 PM

Thought I would add this, something I wrote for Buxiban.com

My experience with Supreme Educational Group, run by Jurene Su and Bill Wong, is as follows:

When I arrived in Taiwan, having signed a contract from overseas, I was told that the school I was working at (Sacred Heart Elementary School in Keelung) did not have enough teaching positions in their language school through which ARCs and work permits were filtered. Mine were to come through a buxiban in Taipei, for which I was to pay 5000 NT a month. A visit from an inspector, which about ten staff members had to suddenly leave their classrooms and hide from in the adjacent dorm, indicated that I was not alone in working at the school illegally. I paid 15,000 NT over three months in service charges and another 15,000 NT over three months to be returned only if I renewed the contract for another year, both of which I later discovered are illegal. After first being told that I was not going to be able to receive health insurance, I found out in December that I would be paying over 700 NT a month, retroactively from October, for a health insurance card that I did not receive until February. Many of the teachers that Supreme brought to the school were from overseas and new to Taiwan, a fact I feel they exploit, for anybody with experience in teaching and living in Taiwan would not consent to such a raw deal. When I made a complaint at the Council of Labor the inspector discovered that Supreme is not licensed as an agency and therefore not in a position to act as one.

Fri 25-Aug-06, 01:19 PM	#3 (permalink)
ajdo ESL Newbie Join Date: Aug 2006 Occupation: Student Location: Posts: 1	Supreme Educational Group - BEWARE Thought I would add this, something I wrote for Buxiban.com My experience with Supreme Educational Group, run by Jurene Su and Bill Wong, is as follows: When I arrived in Taiwan, having signed a contract from overseas, I was told that the school I was working at (Sacred Heart Elementary School in Keelung) did not have enough teaching positions in their language school through which ARCs and work permits were filtered. Mine were to come through a buxiban in Taipei, for which I was to pay 5000 NT a month. A visit from an inspector, which about ten staff members had to suddenly leave their classrooms and hide from in the adjacent dorm, indicated that I was not alone in working at the school illegally. I paid 15,000 NT over three months in service charges and another 15,000 NT over three months to be returned only if I renewed the contract for another year, both of which I later discovered are illegal. After first being told that I was not going to be able to receive health insurance, I found out in December that I would be paying over 700 NT a month, retroactively from October, for a health insurance card that I did not receive until February. Many of the teachers that Supreme brought to the school were from overseas and new to Taiwan, a fact I feel they exploit, for anybody with experience in teaching and living in Taiwan would not consent to such a raw deal. When I made a complaint at the Council of Labor the inspector discovered that Supreme is not licensed as an agency and therefore not in a position to act as one. Last edited by gfell; Mon 18-Dec-06 at 02:05 PM.