Chinese educ online firm opens 1st center in Dvo
Firm to hire 300 Filipino English teachers
THE largest Chinabased English training provider, CC Class opened Friday, February 17 its first overseas center in Davao City.
CC Class is the only English training provider of Huijang, China’s online education giant.
Putting up a physical center here, the firm intends to hire 300 Filipino teachers to cater the high demand for Chinese citizens who seek to develop their English language proficiency. These 300 would-be teachers can cater to 10,000 Chinese students in a year.
The center is located at 15th floor, Landco building, JP Laurel Avenue, Bajada, Davao City.
Qian Dongxing Vice President of Huijang told reporters the firm has chosen the city because of its strong and competent workforce, safe and secure condition and no time differential to China.
Also, he said that Hujiang invested in CC Class online to attract, train and develop the best teaching talent in the country.
CC Class Davao, which started operations here in September 2015, has over 80 teachers from and around Davao that provide English language lessons to Chinese adults, college students and children. These teachers have the option to teach English at home or use the facilities in the center.
Tang Hongze, CEO of Huijang Group of Companies they are looking forward to open more teaching centers and train over 5,000 teachers across the Philippines.
Based on last year’s company data, about 60 percent of the of CC Class’ students which is at around 10,000 are being taught by Filipino teachers. The remaining 40 percent are being catered by American, Australian and British teachers.
Anne Collamar, Operations Manager of CC Class said their students are composed of 80 percent coming from China and the rest overseas.
Sally Yu, Huijang’s Director of Global Teachers said their biggest edge among other online learning platforms is that they provide their own software, teaching references and other services.
“Our long term goal is to be the platform of choice for top educational professionals that share our lifelong dream of making education and fairer to all. It is our aim to bring teachers and learners together,” said Cecilia Pavo, Huijang Director for Academic Quality.
Pavo bared that for interested applicants, the company requires one to be a degree-holder, not necessarily Bachelor of Education, but should strictly be proficient in the English language. An English Knowledge test, oral and written, provided by University of Cambridge, shall also be passed by the applicant. Dongxing shared more Chinese intend to learn English because of globalization, China’s great number of overseas students, and English became a compulsory subject for their education.
“Mostly want to master English for improved business transactions, some are for entertainment purposes,” he said.
Huijang, for decades now, has accumulated 120 million users worldwide, built four business units including an online learning information, online study community, mobile applications for English study and free on line platforms, covering contents such as multi-language studies, K12 curriculum, study-abroad examinations, vocational skills and various arts.