We are a small culture school located on the southern tip of Honshu Island (Japan), about 40 minutes by train from Shimonoseki - across the Kanmon straight from Kyushu island. Our city is called Onoda and it has a population of about 45,000 people. We teach "New Dance" and "English Conversation." At present we have 6 English teachers on our staff and 3 dance teachers. The dance teachers also carry out the day to day running of the school.

University and College graduates are offered a salary of from Yen250,000 - 270,000 for a maximum 98 hour monthly teaching schedule.

High school graduates from Canada, Australia and New Zealand are offered a salary of from Yen230,000 - 240,000 for a maximum 98 hour monthly teaching schedule.

Any hours taught over and above 98 hours are classed as overtime and remunerated at the rate of Yen2,500 per hour.

Our teachers aren't usually asked to put in office time, but are just requested to attend a teacher's meeting each week on Friday mornings.

Teachers who are employed by us receive from 10 to 14 days paid vacation over Christmas and the New Year (plus two days off per week and relevant Japanese National holidays). The length of this holiday depends upon the school's teaching schedules at that time.

If our teachers extend their contact by 6 months, they receive an extra 5 days paid vacation. If they extend their
contract by one year, they receive an extra 10 days paid vacation.

Requests for unpaid vacation are also taken into consideration during light workloads.

BENDA covers all "Apartment Key Money' expenses, we only ask the teacher to pay his/her monthly rental costs (which are usually around Yen40,000 to Yen55,000 per month). We also put in a telephone line to all our teachers' apartments and provide each teacher with a small city car for both business and private use. The teacher being requested to pay the yearly tax/insurance for the vehicle (coming to around Yen4,000 / Yen115,000 per year respectively).

The Academy provides interest free loans for joining expenditures and a year ending bonus of Yen25,000 towards travel costs.

The Academy covers work related accident insurance for all employees.

Our new teachers usually take over an existing apartment and therefore have the chance to purchase furniture from an outgoing teacher.
We provide an interest free loan of up to Yen75,000 towards the purchase of such furniture.

We have a wide range of classes (of all ages/levels) from those at a local university to others held at our school/branches, student's
homes, company offices and local kindergartens. University classes can have up to 50 students in them (though usually they have much less).
Most classes held at our school/branches have a maximum of about 8 and those at company offices a maximum of about ten members. Those taught
at student's homes are usually concerned with teaching a family group or a small number of children. Our Kindergarten classes at present
consist of up to 30 students.

We ask our teachers to plan their own classes, requesting them to focus/build around using a textbook whenever possible. Each teacher is given
the opportunity to choose whichever textbook he/she considers appropriate for every new class. He/she is asked to persevere with another teacher's textbook,if an existing class is taken over.

We have no restrictions regarding our teachers socialising with their students, so there's always a good opportunity to learn about Japanese
culture and study the Japanese language.

If you'd like to hear a little more about us, perhaps we could talk together over the telephone. We can be reached at:-

Tel/fax: 0836-84-6535
Tel: 0836-84-2390
e-mail: edwardnutton@yahoo.co.uk

We presently have two job openings in April/May and others in September of 2005.

Teachers wishing to join us are asked to initially inform us of their interest and then on request provide copies of the following documents:-

Copies of relevant diplomas.
Copy of resume.
Copy of relevant pages from passport.
Copy of International driving license (this can be sent at a later date).
Four copies (passport size) of a recent photograph.

Thanks a lot and looking forward to hearing from you.

Ted Nutton.
Principal.
The British English and New Dance Academy.