Terms & Conditions:

Your initial application should be completed on TEFL International’s Internet application form.

As part of our pre-screening process, applicants are requested to submit an account of their personal history and background and of their motives for joining the course, as well as their future aspirations.

Those from a country that do not use English as the first language may be asked to provide evidence of their English language proficency. This may be done through an online assessment provided on request.

If for any reason you wish to subsequently cancel your place on the course after your part or full fees have been paid (i.e. deposit plus balance), TEFL International cannot provide any refund except for exceptional circumstances. The course organiser's decision is final. In any case, the deposit is non-refundable. The reason for this is that the staffing for the course and accommodation have fixed costs which have to be paid for in advance and based on a specific number of course members in the group. The school cannot guarantee to replace course members who subsequently drop out.

The deposit can be used as part payment for any course on any date, subject to the availability of places. Applications can not be transferred or deferred within one week of the start of a course that the applicant has agreed to attend. At this time, if you are unable to attend the course, your deposit could be forfeited.

The balance of the course fee must be paid via credit card prior to arrival or in cash, in full upon arrival at the course. Please contact the course organiser in advance if you wish to make an alternative payment arrangement.

The course fee is based on your satisfactory completing all the course assessments, including Teaching Practices, within the four weeks. If for any reason you do not complete these satisfactorily within the period and it is agreed that an extension of time or further Teaching Practices are possible later, you will be liable to additional charges to cover additional staff time. These are 100 USD for each Teaching Practice and 35 USD for each piece of written work that needs marking or assessed. If you withdraw from the moderation of your current course and wish to enter moderation on a later course, an additional moderation fee must be paid of 50 USD.

Please read the following about course cancellations. TEFL International has never cancelled a course due to lack of numbers, and we have no plans of ever doing so. Should for some reason beyond our control a course must be unavoidably cancelled, a number of optiosn will be made available to any member who has made a deposit for a course. These options are as follows:

1. Any members who had signed up for the course, and paid their deposit, may transfer to any future course at any centre as long as places are available.
2. Any members who had signed up for the course, and paid their deposit, are eligible for a full refund of their deposit payment.

The TEFL International TESOL certificate will usually be available on the last day of the course.

All course members are liable to the disciplinary regulations of the centre. The course director's decision is final.

Deposits provided through TESOL International for any course, including courses of TEFL International, are paid to Aspire New Zealand's Public Trust Account in New Zealand, where they are secured throiugh Fees Protection governed by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority regulations.