Education
Hard-core
John Baerg | October 6, 2006
As anyone who has spent any amount of time in Taiwan will tell you, buxibans, or cram schools, are a ubiquitous feature in Taiwan’s educational landscape, and in Taiwan’s English language buxibans, the influence of foreigners is easily seen, as most of the big chains go to great lengths to hire native-speaker English teachers. The foreign influence on cram schools isn’t limited to the employment of teachers, however. In fact, in the last twenty years, a new phenomenon has sprung up – that of the foreign-owned and operated English buxiban. Apart from the fact that they are foreign owned, there is another commonality – many of them fall under the category of HFRB – Hard-core Foreign-Run Buxiban. More