EDUCO review

I confess to having not had a brilliant experience with EDUCO, overall.

The orientation week was, however enjoyable, and fun, although the camp coordinations asked for payment in cash, which prompted some questions. The orientation is held in a hotel, and is quite full on, and pushes one out of ones comfort zone!

Following the orientation week, new tutors are required to do a minimum of three weeks working in camps, across Italy. Busy directly after the orientation week (at the beginning of June), I stated I was available in July, which was clearly stated to the camp coordinator. Leaving after the orientation week, all was well, and I was looking forward to returning for the month of July. Arrangements had been made for my return in July.

There the fun ended.

I was messaged five days before my return flight from Britain to Italy that I was no longer able to go to Italy and work in the camps. The reason given was that too many tutors had been taken on that year. I’d like to point out two issues here. Firstly, EDUCO appears to be an unorganised organisation which evidently took on too many people, a problem it surely knew it would have, as they know how many people are needed per camp etc. It is thus, an unreliable company. Secondly, having booked my flight, the situation made the problem of the fact that in many cases flights are not refundable. Mine was not. Thankfully, one positive of this debacle was that the company did refund my flight, however this was three weeks after it had all happened.

This is my experience of EDUCO. I’d like to point out that many people have had good and fun experiences with this company, however, it’s often not all fun and games. I have been told that other new tutors were sent home as they were oversubscribed in terms of tutor numbers, an issue the company needs to sort out if they are to flourish in future years