English teaching job openings in Taiwan attract 5,800 Filipino applications
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Foreign English Teacher Program (FET) sponsored by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education this year attracted 5,800 people in the Philippines to apply, and in the end only 88 were hired to teach English in Taiwan.
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in the Philippines held a luncheon on Thursday (Aug. 11) to send off those who were hired to teach English at public junior high and elementary schools in Taiwan.
The office’s education section chief Li Shih-ping (李世屏) said that this year’s FET recruited 450 English teachers from the U.K., the U.S., Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the Philippines.
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Foreign English Teacher Program (FET) sponsored by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education this year attracted 5,800 people in the Philippines to apply, and in the end only 88 were hired to teach English in Taiwan.
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in the Philippines held a luncheon on Thursday (Aug. 11) to send off those who were hired to teach English at public junior high and elementary schools in Taiwan.
The office’s education section chief Li Shih-ping (李世屏) said that this year’s FET recruited 450 English teachers from the U.K., the U.S., Australia, Canada, South Africa, and the Philippines.