The ESL industry that brings so many expatriates to Bangkok every year with hopes of procuring an honest job teaching has become quite the dark and shady business, like everything else in Thai culture the ESL industry is following suit, the standards are dropping at an obscene rate, employers picking up anyone with a white face and a pulse and slapping them infront of Thai students who genuinely believe that this well dressed foreigner has some kind of qualifications to be there. It has been a trend lately in Bangkok especially that flood of fake degrees from the likes of Khao San Road have allowed anyone to break into this industry

Recently there has been an explosion of recruiting agencies popping up all over Bangkok that are netting as many farangs as possible and throwing them in every which direction to collect a quick comission. Even more disturbing is that the bar has been lowered and now native speakers of English are not the sought after.

Some very dodgy companies have even introduced English teachers from countries such as Iran, and the Phillipines most of them being the last resort for companies to fill these vacancies and make a quick buck, as with everything else in Thailand money overtakes all other priorities and someone has to lose, in this instance it is the Thai children that will be taking the heaviest loss.

Can you really afford to put a price on your child's education? Education unlike a construction project should not be decided by the lowest bidder.

Would the companies brush off their responsibilities because they are run by foreigners employing foreigners illegally.

The Thai government should really step up and put a stop to the haphazard head hunting that has become the ESL industry in Thailand.

Regulate!

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