I was talking with the American foreign teacher (we are the only 2 foreign English teachers there) at my college in the last couple of days, and according to him, there are new rules coming in tomorrow for English teachers. Apparently, for non-native English teachers, they not only will need to be degree holders, but said degree will have to be from an English-speaking country in order to get a Z visa. From what he was saying, this starts tomorrow - which I guess would mean that as peoples' visas run out over the next year, for non-native speakers it would mean that they couldn't legally work.
If this is true, from previous experience that is going to cause massive headaches for a hell of a lot of places. Plus I would expect a few places would start feeling very worried (to put it mildly). I currently also have a part time gig and the 2 guys who were taken on at the same time with me are both non-native speakers. I would say there would be a lot of worry there if this rumour is true.
Just wondering if anyone else had heard this and if it is actually true. If it is, then I imagine the supply of English teachers would be hit quite hard - which should be good for us to get more money (hopefully)...