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3.7

64% would recommend to a friend

(2,305 total reviews)
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Ciarán Devane

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46% positive business outlook

British Council has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,305 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The British Council employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the ONG y Organizaciones sin fines de lucro industry (3.7 stars).

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2K reviews
2.0
May 29, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

You will get to work with the most supportive and helpful staff members. Some very lovely students

Cons

The absolute worst managers you could imagine. The British Council School is so poorly managed that staff turnover is incredibly high. 5 members of the English department quit this year. Ridiculously high workload which is exacerbated by so many pointless admin tasks which are there just to make a pretence that the school cares about its students. It doesn't. It cares about their parents money and nothing else. Entitled, rude students are becoming the norm and the school turns a blind eye to all of this. An atmosphere of fear prevails. Teachers are terrified that they will be fired if they so much as look at the wrong person in the wrong let alone suggest that there could be better ways to do thing. During my time I saw many colleagues fired with absolutely NO warning whatsoever and the school seems to delight in doing this.

1.0
Sep 10, 2016

Exams Operations Officer

Anonymous employee
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Pros

No good came to me off this place.

Cons

Pathetic workplace to be honest. The line manager lacked people management competence.

2.0
Jul 3, 2015
Recommend
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Pros

-Opportunities for self-development with the DELTA and other courses. -A good name on your resume.

Cons

-Didn't pay properly, and management chased me round in circles about it before ignoring me completely. It is *giving the impression that* that mistakes have been made and no one is willing to admit to them (I do not know for certain). I am now considering contacting the Korean Labor Board about them. -Management blames others for their mistakes. -Some of the materials in the curriculum were not level appropriate, and very little time to adapt it. Refusals to believe that the books or children have been levelled incorrectly, and criticisms from managment about your time management when you put in the neccessary extra time (extra to the designated prep time) to adapt the materials.

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