shippo

Hi there, thanks for replying, I had given up hope on this thread.

My nationality is british and the friend of my thai girlfriend is also thai.

And yes, I do plan on working in and co-owning the business

Shippo

Hi there, it is possible to teach english in Thailand with no qualifications at all, as long as you are a native speaker or speak english to a near native level. I think you are actually legally required to have a degree to teach in Thailand but I know a guy who maked 60K a month working in a governemt school teaching maths who doesn't have one. I think the law is only loosely complied with.

I have heared stories of lang schools just printing degrees off of their computers for their new teachers. Don't know if it's true but it wouldn't surprise me.

I used to know a danish guy who could speak english to a near native level and he was working as an english teacher at ECC and he didn't have a degree or tefl cert.

However, please let me make it clear that if you have no qualifications, unless you know people in a position to put in a good word for you, you will most likely be working in pretty awful conditions (35-40 hrs teaching per week, 6 days per week, 24k per month) and have some utter $&!* for a boss who couldn't give a shit about you.

So in my opinion, it probably is better getting some qualifications before you come here and you will pretty much be able to pick and choose which job you want to take.

There is an intro to TEFL course which I did that you can do at ECC Siam Square which is piss easy, lasts 2 weeks and costs 12500 baht, which will probably help get you a job. Although as I have already said, it is possible to get a job here with no quals/experience at all.

Good luck.

Richard, I see from your post that you have set up your own company on Thailand.

If it;s not too much trouble, please tell mr about how you did this. Did you have to have 2 million baht to set up like this website says you do?

If this is true, does the 2 million baht rule apply to Thai nationals too?

Thanks.

I just got my Thai girlfriend to phone up immigration to ask them if it is true that the fine for not reporting is 5000 plus 200 baht per day and they said it's not, you only have to pay 2000 baht irrespective of how late you are reporting.

So maybe a correction to your website is in order, no?

Hi there, me and my Thai girlfriend and her friend want to set up a language school, but we are not sure of the proceedures of how this would be done.

We want to do it so that we all have an equal share in it, but I am not sure that as a foreigner, I would be allowed to do so.

Also, I read on this website that you have to have 2 million baht if you want to set up any sort of company in Thailand, is this true?

Does anybody know of any other rules and regulations we need to comply with?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Shippo