Our goals and intentions are to improve English education worldwide by aiding in promoting the truly great schools out there as well as helping educators be better prepared to teach all levels of English. ESLList.com allows potential and current teachers to research education facilities (private academies, public schools, universities, camps, companies and recruiters), and allow them to find one that fits their individual style. We believe that the better educated foreign teachers are before signing a contract, the more prepared they will be in the workplace. ESL List allows for complete transparency with an open review system and forums. We realize that no system is perfect, so we've opened our review system to comments and discussions. It is our hope to keep reviews relevant and honest. This is a great improvement from our last system at ESLblacklist.com. The very nature of review sites seem to draw more negative reviews than positive. Teachers with positive experiences are much less likely to review, than those with negative experiences. This should be taken into consideration when reading the reviews and forums.

The more reviews your location receives, the more credible the overall review will be. In order to keep this site relevant and completely honest, reviews can only be removed by the reviewer. Threats against ESL List or any of our partner sites, asking us to remove user reviews will be read, but issues should be taken to the reviewer, not ESL List. We are merely a medium for expressions and open discussions. Once a review site allows companies to remove negative reviews and control content, we loose all credibility. Far more will be accomplished by trying to resolve internal issues by going to the source, not the messenger. Please try to respect our system, but feel free to email us at info@esllist.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with comments / concerns / ideas.

Our review system extends to our job board. Here we only allow ESL facilities with a total rating of 3 or more (or no reviews at all), to post. This is what sets us apart from other ESL review and job board sites and aids in our overall goal of promoting the truly good schools, while encouraging the schools with lower reviews to improve.

We offer tips and guidelines to schools for improving their overall rating.

Finally, our concern lies with the education of ESL students. It is apparent that improvements need to be made in countries such as the Republic of Korea, who are among the top spenders on ESL education, but rank near the bottom.

This concern extends to the improvement of our teachers. ESL List attempts to do so by gathering 'best practices', encouraging continuing education, obtaining teaching certificates and by providing cultural and local language education to help bridge the gap in the work environment.