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 & visa scam institution in the world, with around 20,000 students/ illegal or bogus indivduals passing through its doors. The much-copied (no one copied so successfully the philosophy of visa factory pretending to be an educational institute) Evendine (which was never accredited by the British Council) philosophy was to attract the best teachers, senior management- (which consited of a Lord (AKA Suresh), his son, his wife and daughter (a minor -undre 18) as paid directors, and tefl innovators through a mixture of high salaries (yeah right! staff still remember) and attractive packages (staff could be shot at a whim, teachers were shot in front of their students without due process- some package). As such the school was at various times home to some of the biggest shots in tefl including Adam Thursby, Richard Baillie, Amanda Adorni, Nick Godfrey, Eamonn Gearon, Tony Gulvin and Geoff Maguire- most were passing through and working until they could get a better job at General Motors, Microsoft, IBM or some other Fortune 500 company.
Suresh Malhotra is currently banned from running a company for 5 years but is reportedly planning a comeback in 2008. (That would be illegal-look up barred directors on company`s house website - he, his son and wife are all banned. A voulantry ban - to avoid worse consequences. Why, the reader should wonder, was such a well run business (with such talented management as claimed) collapse- and its directors banned. In fact his lordship & family started to believe that they were the best business brains ever. Whereas the British Department of Trade investigations would lead to different and perhaps more rational conclusions that the business was never viable as a proper business - if it paid PAYE (taxes), produced management accounts or submitted accounts to the authorities in time and paid other company taxes - and above all taught ALL students and kept attendance records as required by the British Home Office.
Readers are invited to check details with the authorities- most of the accounts information is in the public domain.
This modified version injects a degree of truth..but only a degree. If the writer called sureshmalhotra wants to, he can of course re-edit this. But we will continue to inject realism to this page. But maybe we will study a bit more English first before we do that.
