G.education Nova
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After Nova`s bankruptcy, Nagoya-based company G. Education took over the brand name, course materials, and employees of the bankrupt Nova.
Instructors who wanted to be employed by G. Education were promised that they would all be employed, and were, in late november, given two choices for how and when they would start employment: Option A instructors would immediately return to work. Option B instructors would receive an immediate lump sum payment of 150,000円 payment and return to work on January 15th, with roughly a month and a half off.
Instructors who choose Option B were not offered new contracts with G.education on January 15th as promised, due to a lack of students at the time. Some Option B instructors were given contracts at a later date, but few of these instructors recieved the same pay/holidays/etc as in their previous contracts.
Currently, the system of work is much the same as it was in old nova. Instructors teach up to 40 lessons a week, with each lesson consisting of 40 minutes of teaching time with 4 minutes of administrative time for a total of 44 minutes. There can be up to 5 students per class, unless a student pays for a man to man lesson. Unstructured "Voice" lessons with no maximum number of students are also available.
Presently, G. Education Nova has approximately 250 schools and 1500 instructors across Japan, from Okinawa to Hokkaido. Due to the 25% return rate deal, however, the company has failed to make a profit so far and is being supported by other companies in the G. communications umbrella corporation.
The next section will be moved to another page later, but the site has stopped accepting changes for some reason... To get students of Nova to rejoin with the Nova-branded G.Education company, they were allowed to exchange their Nova lesson tickets for G.Education Nova tickets by paying 25% the cost of a regular ticket. Due to the large package sizes of Nova, in which many students had hundreds of tickets, this meant that G.Education Nova inherited hundreds of students who each paid a relatively small fee at the beginning of the company, then paid nothing at all for a year or more. This is causing financial difficulty for the company, as (like with the former Nova) they are obligated to teach a large number of students without gaining any monthly income from the students.
As an example, a student who exchanged 100 Nova tickets, and took two lessons a week, would not generate any additional revenue for G. Education until January of 2009...one year after the tickets were purchased. A student who exchanged 500 Nova tickets would not generate any revenue for the company until 2013.
