CELTComputing: Challenging experience!
In 1996-2003 Abdellatif built, founded and managed his private English school in Annaba. It was a bridge between the ‘University’ and the ‘Reality’ of the market place. His business entrepreneurship, which has been his major contribution to EFL teaching and training in Annaba, ended up in legal wrangling. While teaching English in CELT he learned many lessons in ‘the school of life’.
BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
“Le climat des affaires in 1999-2003
Regulations
Language License Legal Loophole
1999-2000 License License License
Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics (Equivalent to “Magister” in Algeria) is not worth the paper written on it!
Bureaucracy / red tape
Documents required
Correspondence & communication
License to teach English 1.0
License to teach English 2.0
Telephone, Mail and Internet (Algerie Telecom & PTT)
Please fix my landline!
The road not taken
Fix my road! Letters to the Mayors and to other officials
LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION
Funding /Financing May 2000
Struggles to get micro-credit ANSEJ for School furniture and supplies
No funding from banks
Recruitment
Talent shortage and wrong attitude
Hire them while they still know everything!
Taxes Taxes Taxes
20% taxes overall
The culture
French language “resistance”
#1 foreign language
My CELTComputing School 