ImmerQi | Teach & Travel China Program

After 35 years in the same profession, I needed to change my life and decided that teaching English as a foreign language would suit me perfectly. With the expert help of TTC I was able to achieve my new and successful career in China.
I am teaching in a wonderful polytechnic in the city of Zhongshan near Hong Kong. The experiences I am having here are the best I've ever had, due to the support of the school, the guys at TTC in Beijing and most important of all, the amazing students I teach and even those I don't teach!
Teaching here in China is the most rewarding, heart- warming and uplifting experience I have ever had!
I am grateful to TTC for choosing the right college for me and for always being contactable (even though I never needed their help).
I would recommend TTC's help as a first step for a new career or for a gap year or even just for something a little different!
Teaching in China may change your life for the better! It certainly has mine.

We got lucky in regards to our teaching placement. We were placed with a private weekend school who then contracts with public schools in the area to give us teaching hours 4 days during the week. One day on the weekend we teach private lessons at the school we're contracted with.

We want to come back to the school because they treat us well and there are many different teaching experiences to be had. We were under the impression that after we finished our contract with TTC that we could go off on our own and start contracting directly with our school if we wanted to stay after the first term/internship.

Not necessarily so. TTC had made a separate contract with our school forbidding them to contract directly with any teachers that completed the first term with TTC; they could only contract through TTC again if they wanted to get re-hired, or else the school would have to pay a hefty fee.

TTC did not make us aware of this AT ALL. We felt pretty scammed, as they tout that after your internship, you will be employable and are free to apply for tefl jobs independently. Wouldn't recommend this company to anyone else looking for a tefl experience, to be honest. If you do contract with TTC, remember to ask them if they have arranged a second contract directly with the school you're placed at.

I would never recommend this program to anyone. The staff at TTC are only slightly helpful if it is a problem they can easily help you with... if it's something that actually requires them to put some effort into their job, they just tell you "it's not possible" or "we can't do anything about that." I am on the program right now and the living allowance is pathetic, considering TTC is pocketing almost 8000 RMB from each intern every month while we only see ¥2000. I have no hot water in my shower, my living conditions are worse than many of the locals around here, and the whole TRAVEL part of "Teach and Travel China" is a scam. You only get a maximum of 3 days off at once and it is not possible to travel out of the country on your visa. In addition, the "15 teaching hours a week" is not guaranteed... I only teach 7 hours a week and yet I have to be at the school for 35 hours. This program is slightly ridiculous and not worth your time. If you search the Beijinger you can find jobs that pay 10,000 RMB a month for teachers with little to no experience.

I came our to China with ImmerQi to teach about 2 and a half years ago and I haven't been home since!

I was teaching in Beijing in a wonderful school with amazing kids who were so fantastic to teach. ImmerQi were in contact a good amount during the internship and were available 24/7 if I needed anything.

They helped arrange social activities after the orientation period had finished and suggested loads of ways to get the most out of your placement.

All of the staff were very friendly and always keen to answer my questions.

I enjoyed the experience so much I decided to stay!

TTC was a great introduction for me to China. The staff were helpful and co-operative all the way, and always at the end of the phone if you needed anything. My placement was great too, I had fantastic accommodation and my school were really helpful and supportive.

I am still in Beijing now, 5 years later, having originally come for 6 months. TTC gave me a great stepping stone for my future here, and I got all the help and support needed while I figured out the way things work here, and after 2 semesters with TTC, went it alone and found my own job.

Best decision of my life, I think the length of time I have stayed is indicative to that!! I still have friends I made 5 years ago, and of course lots of new ones too.

Anyone deciding whether to give it a go or not definitely should. I can promise you you'll have a blast :-)

My day to day experiences are from Monday to Friday I teach at my school. Week nights I catch up with mates and we chat about school and stuff and go out to bars or to parks.

Weekends I play rugby on Saturday and go out Friday and Saturday night. Sunday is spent travelling around my city.

That is my typical week

I wanted an amazing TEFL experience abroad, and Teach & Travel China/ ImmerQi delivered just that and more. Assistance from the beginning until the end allowed me to enjoy my day to day life in China without any extra hassles. After 3 semesters with TTC at my school in Ningbo, Zhejiang, I gained experience in teaching all age levels, from primary to university students. I was able to create my own lesson plans and grow as a TEFL teacher at my own pace. I'm currently still abroad in China, and with the confidence and experience I gained through my time here I plan on continuing to work and live abroad for years to come. I couldn't have asked for a better stepping stone in to life abroad and TEFL.

I can't imagine where I'd be if I hadn't have taken the opportunity to travel to China with TTC and ImmerQi.

It's completely changed my life - for the better! I've made a new life for myself in Beijing, I have great friends and a great job, all thanks to the Teach and Travel China Program.

I completed my semester in a Kindergarten not far from Beijing. It was quite an isolated town, between two major cities, and I was one of two foreigners in the area. Because of this, I was a local celebrity! My Mandarin language skills improved rapidly and I had so much fun being engulfed by the Chinese culture. I had very few issues with my placement and whenever I contacted my advisor with a problem, they were very supportive and offered great advice.

A year after leaving my teaching placement, I'm living in Beijing with my partner. I still regularly visit my placement town to meet up with old friends and visit my students. I plan to stay in China for at least a few more years, it's got so much to offer and I've made friends for life from all over the world through Teach and Travel China.

I owe everything I have right now to ImmerQi. They offered me a way out of a potentially dead-end situation in the UK. The program has given the confidence and personal skills to be able to tackle anything life throws at me.