EOK Reviews

Unprofessional training: Since you are not expected to responsible for the weak students, you are also discouraged from disseminate knowledge, you will soon lose your precious teaching skills and find your knowledge is not respected. You will get stuck in this work place without hope to work at any better educational institute. Low salary, long working hours, six-day work week, seven-day annual leave Unfairness: the old staff can be late for work and lazy at work, the new staff have to be on time, being ordered around by the old staff who have low professional knowledge (Especially English and Literature). Unhealthy and environmentally unfriendly lunch: the lunch is free but it’s unhealthy, compulsorily at the boring suffocating office, you will have to waste a lot of plastic Abnormal rivalry: a colleague putting bikini picture or other revealing picture as her profile pic can be late to work, lazy at teaching with low professional knowledge in the subject. And she is given the ‘power’ to order the junior staff around. The management encourages her to undermine your teaching in front of the students, the management does this to any new staff. The management encourages regurgitation and spoon-feeding. You are discouraged from teaching and inspiring. The management also makes the old staff take credit of your hard work in the name of teamwork.

- A lack of genuine autonomy as a teacher: expect a degree of micro-management in teaching method and interaction style with kids (way of communication, tone, and voice, etc.); instructors (how EOK call their ‘teachers’ – more like computer assistants, in my opinion) are expected to adhere fully to the EOK method of 100% computer program reliant teaching - Highly formalistic teaching environment: offering individual attention to a single kid for more than 5 minutes is discouraged; instructors are made to move constantly between different computers servicing different programs at the same time, whilst kids are made to sit in front of a screen drilling program non-stop for more than an hour - Lukewarm company culture: high turnover rate – a possibility of getting terminated suddenly at the end of the first month; do not expect much interaction between management and staff; will not recommend to those who prioritise community growth and interpersonal flourishment - Overall a systematic tutoring center that does the minimal to nurture bona fide education, but will be perfect for those who wish to earn an attractive income (longer-term) perpetuating a highly result-orientated/commercial (‘spoon-feeding’, some may say) tutoring system