Evendine College
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Evendine College was a Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) school located in London. It had several sites, including Tottenham Court Road, Oxford Street and, in later years, Victoria.
The school was founded by Suresh Malhotra in the early 1990s and achieved notoriety in the TEFL world in 2003 when financial problems caused the school to close in a series of events that have come to be known as "teflgate."
At its height in the late 1990s, Evendine was the largest privately-owned tefl institution in the world, with around 20,000 students passing through its doors. The much-copied Evendine philosophy was to attract the best teachers, senior management and tefl innovators through a mixture of high salaries and attractive packages. As such the school was at various times home to some of the biggest names in tefl including Adam Thursby, Richard Baillie, Amanda Adorni, Nick Godfrey, Eamonn Gearon, Tony Gulvin and Geoff Maguire.
Suresh Malhotra is currently banned from running a company for 5 years but is reportedly planning a comeback in 2008.
