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Proof of a TEFL oligarchy??

I’d always scoffed at such conspiracy theories before, but I could have sworn that there were more than this many publishers of EFL materials in the UK. Maybe Delta Publishing etc have all been taken over by Saudi oil princes like Premiersh... ...full story at TEFLtastic

from TEFLtastic on Sun, Oct 18 2009

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