The two TEFL companies that were involved in the creation of OTTSA (ITTT TEFL and MyTEFL) have miraculously deleted any mention of OTTSA from their websites.

MyTEFL now claims to be accredited by ICOES – another pseudo accreditation website that mirrors the deceit that OTTSA was pushing.

ITTT TEFL is still “accredited” by extremely dodgy “education” websites:

https://trustedteflreviews.com/2022/03/23/ittt-tefl-accreditation/

Mia Williams – Trusted TEFL Reviews

alexcase.

Thanks for your comment.

Yes, it does appear that the OTTSA accreditation website has closed down.

Regardless, ITTT TEFL and MyTEFL still claim to be “accredited” by OTTSA.

Mia Williams – Trusted TEFL Reviews

It appears that you are a former building projects manager, from the UK, and that you moved to Thailand in 2002 – starting a new life as an English teacher:

https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/560086.tourists-urged-to-return/

I completely admire your determination to transition into a different field of employment.

However, our readers wish to know the answers to the questions that have been asked of the accreditation organization that you began – OTTSA.

I’m really trying to help you out here. If you can answer, in a transparent manner, the questions raised then we will delete this post and apologize in the process.

However, if OTTSA is little more than another shady accreditation website then we believe that our readers should be made aware of the fact.

Mia Williams.

I’m afraid your reply has only raised further red flags.

It is apparent that you would rather people contact you directly at your email. You made that clear from the start. But if you are an international accreditation agency – a real one, one which is recognized and above board – then why the avoidance of transparency? We asked you some very basic questions that should be softball questions for an agency, as you purport yourselves to be, but you haven’t answered any of them.

To provide you with an additional opportunity to clear things up for our readers, here are our (softball) questions for you again – some additional *notes have also been added to two of the questions in response to your reply:

1. Your comment was received from a Thailand IP address. What is your connection to Thailand?
* You replied: ‘I am currently based in Thailand, but can work from anywhere…once the situation allows that is!’.
This makes you seem like a one-man show. Is this correct?

2. Where are your accreditation offices located?

3. What experience and contacts in the industry give you the authority to provide accreditation?

4. Why are you so willing now to respond to emails when previously there wasn’t even a murmur from your end when people tried to get in touch with you?
* You replied: ‘For whatever reason, we have no record of receiving any queries from you, and certainly regularly receive messages from a variety of sources, which are always replied to.’
I wasn’t just referring to my emails, I was referring to a number of schools that tried contacting OTTSA in the past – asking about accreditation steps – but without any response from you.
Surely, if you are a real organization then you would jump at the chance of welcoming more schools into your organization.

5. If you are indeed an accreditation organization then what is your accreditation provider identity number? Where are you registered as being officially recognized as a provider of accreditation?

6. And finally, it appears obvious to me that you are connected to two specific schools. You list a number of schools that you claim to accredit, but when we first checked those schools they were basically empty shell schools – seemingly intended to add volume to your list of accredited organizations. We Googled those schools and saw that they had no footprint on the internet other than on your OTTSA website. After publishing this post, after a few days, those websites had been edited to make them appear to be more plausible. How do you explain this?

If you can satisfactorily answer these very basic questions, we will delete this post and sincerely apologize in the process.

Mia Williams.

There is no “scam” and we pride ourselves on the service we provide. For whatever reason, we have no record of receiving any queries from you, and certainly regularly receive messages from a variety of sources, which are always replied to. Perhaps there is a system error of some sort. If you have well documented examples, please send them to me and I will respond personally. I can be contacted directly at moderator@ottsa.org

Our “Who are we?” page includes detailed personal information about us. We are a small partnership with clearly stated aims and are at a loss to understand the reason for such an attack. I am currently based in Thailand, but can work from anywhere…once the situation allows that is!

Thank you for honouring the right to reply but, after internal discussion, we feel this is as far as we are prepared to go in a forum such as this.

The issue at hand though is that people have tried to contact you, prior to this comment being published on trustedteflreviews.com, and no replies were forthwith. This has been well documented. Schools have found it extremely strange that, when they wrote asking about the accreditation process, they received no answer back.
Surely, you yourself as a Principal Moderator (if that is an authentic title in this case) should understand that this doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. In fact, it looks a little as though you are now willing to answer emails as a direct response to this post. But, perhaps I am wrong.

Since you decided to come on here and publish your comment of your own volition, perhaps you wouldn’t mind answering a few questions for us?

1. Your comment was received from a Thailand IP address. What is your connection to Thailand?
2. Where are your accreditation offices located?
3. What experience and contacts in the industry give you the authority to provide accreditation?
4. Why are you so willing now to respond to emails when previously there wasn’t even a murmur from your end when people tried to get in touch with you?
5. And finally, if you are indeed an accreditation organization then what is your accreditation provider identity number? Where are you registered as being officially recognized as a provider of accreditation?

Mia Williams.

Mia Williams