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GEOS (株式会社ジオス, Kabushiki Kaisha Jiosu?) is one of the big five [1] private eikaiwa, or English conversation teaching companies, in Japan. Image File history File linksMetadata NICE_Logo_(Small). ...
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GEOS, which stands for Global Education Opportunities and Services, was started in 1973 by Tsuneo Kusunoki. The first school was based in Tokushima City, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, also the location of one of the company's main registered offices. The company has regional head offices in Sapporo, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and Fukuoka. Year 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. ...
, Tokushima (徳島市; -shi) is the capital city of Tokushima Prefecture on Shikoku island of Japan. ...
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, literally Eastern capital) is a unique subnational administrative region of Japan with characteristics of both a prefecture and a city. ...
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GEOS has an overseas hiring office in Vancouver. The GEOS group also runs children-only schools called "Codomo Schools" (子供校) [Correctly transliterated as "Kodomo", "Codomo" is used in all GEOS company literature] throughout Japan. The adult GEOS Schools have themselves taken on more classes for children. As of February 2007, GEOS had a total of around 500 "Codomo" and adult schools in Japan and over 55 schools [2]in countries outside of Japan. Motto: By Sea, Land, and Air We Prosper Location of Vancouver within the Greater Vancouver Regional District in British Columbia, Canada Coordinates: , Country Canada Province British Columbia Region Lower Mainland Regional District Greater Vancouver Incorporated 1886 Government - Mayor Sam Sullivan (NPA) - City Council List of Councilors Suzanne Anton (NPA) Peter...
The main language GEOS teaches in Japan and its overseas schools is English. Other languages taught at GEOS include, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese and Korean. GEOS also teaches Japanese to foreigners living in Japan at their Kudan Japanese Culture, Research Center and Language Institute in Kudanshita, Tokyo[3] The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
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Labor issues
An article in The Japan Times noted working conditions of Geos managers. In 1999, the Company was taken to court by 14 of its managers over unpaid overtime. At the time of the case, the main plaintiff said that she was working a 72-hour week under constant unmanageable pressure to increase sales at her school. Even though the managers won their suit, costing Geos 300 million yen in unpaid overtime, the media mostly ignored the case. In the same article, managers noted high staff turnover and long working hours. However, a spokeswoman for the company said that GEOS, and the language learning industry as a whole, provides women with a rare opportunities to begin business careers. [4] The Japan Times is one of the few independent English newspapers published in Japan: it mainly competes with English editions of the major dailies, such as the Daily Yomiuri and the Mainichi Daily News, as well as the International Herald Tribune. ...
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International Expansion International expansion began in Vancouver, in 1987, and New York, and Brighton, UK in 1989. In 2001, Geos created a network of international support offices starting with Geos International Korea and followed by offices in Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Brazil, Hong Kong, Mexico and the Czech Republic.[5] On July 6, 2007, The Japan Times reported that GEOS would open a school for 150 students in St. Petersburg, Russia as part of a recent expansion by Japanese companies into the Russian market including Toyota and Nissan. Kusunoki, CEO, said the company had "high growth potential in Russia", and that "GEOS would be targetting, businesspeople, aspiring athletes and artists, including aspirants in figure skating, ballet and music".[6] Motto: By Sea, Land, and Air We Prosper Location of Vancouver within the Greater Vancouver Regional District in British Columbia, Canada Coordinates: , Country Canada Province British Columbia Region Lower Mainland Regional District Greater Vancouver Incorporated 1886 Government - Mayor Sam Sullivan (NPA) - City Council List of Councilors Suzanne Anton (NPA) Peter...
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References - ^ McEnglish for the masses The Japan Times. Feb. 24, 2004. Retrieved June 14, 2007
- ^ Geos corporate site (Japanese)
- ^ GEOS International Schools
- ^ Barely managing Japan Times, July 6, 2004. Retrieved June 14, 2007
- ^ Special Report: The evolution of ELT Hot House Media, Language Travel Magazine, February 2005. Retrieved June 27, 2007
- ^ Geos, Mizuho chase demand for services in Russia Japan Times, July 6, 2006. Retrieved June 27, 2007
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AEON (taken from the Latin word for a really long time) is one of the Big Four Japanese eikaiwa or English education companies. ...
ECC (Education through Communication for the Community) is the name of an English language business or eikaiwa in Japan. ...
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External links - GEOS Japan (Japanese)
- GEOS' English-language recruitment website
- GEOS International Schools
- News regarding Language schools in the UK
- News regarding Language schools in the UK
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