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Nova successor claims other schools poaching students

OSAKA (Kyodo) G.education, the company running some of the operations of the bankrupt language school chain Nova Corp., has sent letters to six English-language schools demanding they stop interfering in its business through preferential offers, sources... ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Tue, Apr 01 2008

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