STEC Academy

What reviewers say

Excerpts from public Google reviews. They are the reviewers’ opinions, not ours, and we have not verified them.

• ★ 5a year ago

  This is my first language center I have taught at and it is a great environment for student learning. It is clear the office staff, teachers, and owner are all invested in their students’ learning and care about them as people. There is a great balance between enriching lessons and fun, creative learning. I highly recommend!

• ★ 5a year ago

  This was the first center I worked for in 2019 and I'm so glad it was. The owner, colleagues and students I met there were all just great. It's always a pleasure to come back and say hello to everyone as many of the people I met before still work here (which certainly says something when most centers have a turnover rate of about 1-2 years)

• ★ 59 years ago

  The best English center in Hoi An. My son loves learning English when he came to this school. Thanks all teacher for your hard working.

• ★ 4a year ago

  There's not much to say; +The teachers are really friendly and helpful,they sometimes teach easy to understand, but sometimes not really. +The education programme that I study is not very hard but it's challenging enough for us.So it's not very boring but sometimes it goes to long,some of my friends get bored.But they also have a balance programme between study and play - I think it just for the little children. +The facilities at the centre are not bad , but average. => Overall, I do recommend: to be honest,STEC's just OK if you want to learn English (p/s: I study at STEC for 10yrs)

• ★ 4Edited a year ago

  The owner is generally kind hearted and in my experience lived up to promises made. The school does not use up to date international methodologies or curriculums and it probably isn’t the place to send kids who want to study abroad— especially students who are already middle or high school aged. That isn’t really a problem unique to this training center as most similar schools in VN cannot seem to break free from doing things in accordance to how local public schools are doing it… That is to say that in VN they are teaching English the way every other place in the world was doing it in the 1970s and this training center is no exception. The benefits of this school are that it’s relatively inexpensive and there are genuine native speakers working there (not just white faces from Eastern Europe or some other country where English isn’t the first language as you’d commonly find in other schools in VN), the staff are nice and I do believe they genuinely care about teaching. It’s a good place to send kids to give them exposure to English and probably one of the best options in the tiny market of a small town like Hoi An. Work as a tour guide or in a local hotel they later will…But go to a western university later they will probably not. Response to owner, 23/10/24 I didn’t write anything elsewhere. This is the only review I have given of this training center. Perhaps you meant to write something else? 🤔 When I briefly taught there, I observed the books and materials being at least a decade old. Some came from reputable publishers (mostly British) and others did not. I didn’t say STEC is public school. I said you employ the same or similar teaching methods as VN public school and use the same standards of assessment, practice, skills, and measurement— which are quite outdated— for determining and guiding academic success. If you don’t understand this statement then that is probably why you are doing this. From my observations, while the classes would help students with exposure to English, it wouldn’t prepare them for TOEFL or SAT or other comprehensive university entrance exams. Those exams place emphasis on inferential reasoning and analysis rather than rote memorization. Of course any school, especially in a climate such as the one that exists in VN where there is limited legal accountability, will say anything to market and sell itself. But as a professional teacher currently working at a top tier international school teaching AP and IB courses, that’s how I saw it from my observations. Good luck and as I said, STEC is definitely a good place to get students exposure to English.

• ★ 4a year ago

  The teachers there are really friendly! You see, stec always give their students happiness when Stec create an activities. The classrooms are small but the facilities there are modern

• ★ 22 months ago

  Everything is okay but please change the wifi

• ★ 1Edited 4 years ago

  This was by far the worst school I was ever involved with. They make many promises (none of which they ever delivered on), they have you sign documents claiming they've trained & introduced operations (which they never did), and also expect you to do a lot of extra work outside of the center without pay. So once I finished all these extra events, graded all their students midterms and wrote reviews, I asked about the Trc they had promised for 2 months. The school coordinator wouldn't even call me (she claimed to be too busy) but she text me saying she would love me to continue working part time but couldn't fulfill her promise. I wouldn't recommend anyone teach here or send their children here. There are much finer establishments in Hỏi An.