anarchyjapan an anarchic exploration of Japan ...
Home

English in Japan

NOVA issue -- HIS travel tie up on the way?

04 Jul 2007
Posted by matt
Nova issue ... just updating this entry to include two articles about possible tie up with HIS travel company.
Tags:

Opinions expressed in comment section are the opinions of the author only. Report inappropriate comments to webmaster at anarchyjapan.com.

More woes for Nova, gov student assistance cut

16 Jun 2007
Posted by matt
From NHK news:
厚生労働省は、雇用保険に入っている人を対象に職業能力を高めようと、英会話など指定する６８００あまりの講座の受講者に最高で２０万円を助成する「教育訓練給付金」という制度を設けています。英会話学校最大手ＮＯＶＡの３２のレッスンも助成の対象になっていますが、厚生労働省はＮＯＶＡが特定商取引法の違反行為があったとして経済産業省から一部業務停止を命じられたことを受けて対応を検討していました。その結果、厚生労働省は「ＮＯＶＡは教育訓練を行う事業者としてふさわしくない」と判断し、ＮＯＶＡのレッスンを今後５年間、教育訓練給付金の対象から外すことを決めました。助成金は、すでにＮＯＶＡのレッスンを受講している人にはそのまま給付されますが、今月２０日以降にレッスンを始める新規の受講者には給付されないということです。厚生労働省によりますと、制度ができたこの８年間にＮＯＶＡの受講者に対してあわせておよそ１６０億円が給付されたということです。
I don't think I understand this article correctly.
Tags:

Opinions expressed in comment section are the opinions of the author only. Report inappropriate comments to webmaster at anarchyjapan.com.

METI to Nova: No more long term contracts!

14 Jun 2007
Posted by matt
TPR is reporting that Nova will be ordered to suspend part of it's operations for six months.
Tags:

Opinions expressed in comment section are the opinions of the author only. Report inappropriate comments to webmaster at anarchyjapan.com.

The LDP and Nova, what's the deal?

13 Jun 2007
Posted by matt
The Osaka government went after Nova for it's refund policy, and an LDP lower house politician stepped in to smooth things over by getting the president of Nova a meeting with the mayor of Osaka. All three had a powwow of sorts and the issue went away. This was last year. Now, this year the Supreme Court determined the refund policy was invalid. Should the LDP member have interfered?
Tags:

Opinions expressed in comment section are the opinions of the author only. Report inappropriate comments to webmaster at anarchyjapan.com.

Comments on the JET program

13 Feb 2007
Posted by matt

I posted these comments recently to the community in Japan forum at Yahoo:

There's been a lot of interesting comments on the JET programme, recently. I don't know that much about it, except that I've done the same type of work before and found it mostly unsatisfying.

Tags:

Opinions expressed in comment section are the opinions of the author only. Report inappropriate comments to webmaster at anarchyjapan.com.