Comments on: TTA The TEFL Academy https://trustedteflreviews.com/2025/09/09/tta-the-tefl-academy/ TEFL and TESOL Online Certification Course Reviews in 2026. Sun, 21 Dec 2025 07:52:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: Paige https://trustedteflreviews.com/2025/09/09/tta-the-tefl-academy/#comment-4104 Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:34:49 +0000 https://trustedteflreviews.com/?p=11999#comment-4104 Had a terrible experience with TEFL Academy. Where do all of their positive reviews on other review site platforms come from? Written by TEFL Academy me thinks.
I fell for their Level 5 TEFL scam. Cost me a lot of money and I can’t find any employer who’ll accept it.
Contacted my bank to chargeback school fees to my account because TEFL Academy is so obvious to me now that it’s a scam.

]]> By: Susan W. https://trustedteflreviews.com/2025/09/09/tta-the-tefl-academy/#comment-2670 Thu, 30 May 2024 07:25:35 +0000 https://trustedteflreviews.com/?p=11999#comment-2670 I hate to use the word ‘scam’ because I feel it is used too often these days and is the nuclear word that everyone gravitates to.

In the case of The TEFL Academy TTA, I feel the word is completely justified.

After I’d taken their TEFL course and received my TEFL certificate (crumpled in the post) over two months later, and after I’d been turned down for a teaching job in China because they didn’t recognize the certification offered by The TEFL Academy TTA, I began conducting some research into their program and the list of lies just kept growing.

Here is one prime example:

The TEFL Academy TTA has a small office in (Dublin) Ireland and a small one in the United Kingdom (Brighton).

It has no other offices. I did my due diligence and checked.

On the other hand, it claims (and I kid you not) that it has offices in the following locations around the world:

Adelaide, Australia
Brisbane, Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Perth, Australia
Sydney, Australia
Montreal, Canada
Toronto, Canada
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Barcelona, Spain
Berlin, Germany
Madrid, Spain
Prague, Czech Republic
Rome, Italy
Cork, Ireland
Galway, Ireland
Limerick, Ireland
Auckland, New Zealand
Bloemfontein, South Africa
Cape Town, South Africa
Durban, South Africa
East London, South Africa
Johannesburg, South Africa
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Pretoria, South Africa
Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Ashford, United Kingdom
Belfast, United Kingdom
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cardiff, United Kingdom
Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Exeter, United Kingdom
Falmouth, United Kingdom
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Hull, United Kingdom
Ipswich, United Kingdom
Leeds, United Kingdom
Leicester, United Kingdom
Liverpool, United Kingdom
London, United Kingdom
Londonderry, United Kingdom
Luton, United Kingdom
Manchester, United Kingdom
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Northampton, United Kingdom
Norwich, United Kingdom
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Oxford, United Kingdom
Plymouth, United Kingdom
Reading, United Kingdom
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Southampton, United Kingdom
Southend, United Kingdom
Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
Swansea, United Kingdom
York, United Kingdom
Boston, USA
Chicago, USA
Los Angeles, USA
New York, USA
Philadelphia, USA
San Francisco, USA

Don’t fall this scam folks!

What The TEFL Academy TTA offers is an overpriced TEFL course that posts its certificates from Brighton or Dublin and which are not as recognized worldwide as The TEFL Academy TTA would have you believe.

]]> By: Turner https://trustedteflreviews.com/2025/09/09/tta-the-tefl-academy/#comment-2662 Thu, 23 May 2024 02:20:52 +0000 https://trustedteflreviews.com/?p=11999#comment-2662 This is the course that I took and which was light years in front of The TEFL Academy:
https://teflonlinepro.com/120-hour-professional/

]]> By: Turner https://trustedteflreviews.com/2025/09/09/tta-the-tefl-academy/#comment-2661 Thu, 23 May 2024 02:18:08 +0000 https://trustedteflreviews.com/?p=11999#comment-2661 After my experience with the the TEFL Academy, I won’t be recommending it to anyone.
The lessons are entirely geared towards British English, with little knowledge of American accents & pronunciations.
When it came time to applying for English teacher jobs, it soon became clear that this company has a known poor reputation.
What they do have, though, is a whole load of SEO and a whole load of fake reviews.
After getting rejected time and time again for teaching English jobs, I decided to cut my losses and went with the teflonlinepro.com 120-hour Professional course.
The TEFL Online Pro course was much better arranged and accommodated American learners.
Plus, it has an excellent reputation.
I know this from personal experience because I am now in the fortunate position of needing to turn down jobs because at every interview I was offered a full-time position.
The TEFL Academy just isn’t worth it.

]]> By: Trusted TEFL Reviews https://trustedteflreviews.com/2025/09/09/tta-the-tefl-academy/#comment-1813 Thu, 29 Dec 2022 06:11:47 +0000 https://trustedteflreviews.com/?p=11999#comment-1813 In reply to Zia Ansari.

Zia.

Thanks for the TTA job placement warning.

TTA (The TEFL Academy) have time and again proven that they only want to take your money and provide very poor post-course services.

There are three reasons why TTA is a popular TEFL program:

1. A big marketing budget.
2. A band of affiliate marketers.
3. Silence of any critical material.

Regarding this third point, TTA The TEFL Academy had a Prague lawyer contact me in July 2022 – threatening to sue me if I did not delete all mention of TTA The TEFL Academy from trustedteflreviews.com.

Of course, I ignored the threat because they can’t sue me for publishing true information.

I also don’t know why they paid a Prague lawyer to hassle me when they full-well know that I live in Vienna, Austria.

With TTA The TEFL Academy, you pay for a heavily marketed course and then you tend to wonder what all the fuss was about and why you are not getting the course and the post-course services that are meant to be so “amazing”.

Trusted TEFL Reviews recommends avoiding TTA The TEFL Academy (https://www.theteflacademy.com/) and, instead, choosing one of the Top 5 Online TEFL/TESOL certification course programs in 2023: https://trustedteflreviews.com/2022/12/01/best-online-tefl-courses-tesol-2020/

Mia Williams – Trusted TEFL Reviews

]]> By: Zia Ansari https://trustedteflreviews.com/2025/09/09/tta-the-tefl-academy/#comment-1812 Thu, 29 Dec 2022 02:13:24 +0000 https://trustedteflreviews.com/?p=11999#comment-1812 There is a job vacancy in Istanbul advertised on TTA TEFL and other recruitment sites. Not only is this a fake job, but it’s a huge scamming organization as well! I applied and the more they took me through the recruitment process the more I got suspicious!! The people involved slipped up a few times within the email communication, errors upon errors, a huge red flag. Now, the advert has changed this week offering $1000 more! They are offering $6000!! Very unrealistic anywhere in the world let alone Turkey!!!

The school name is posted as Soma Kars Private school, Istanbul. I have ran some of my own checks on this and have a long list of red flags! WhatsApp communication only was another one! From the application to the interview to the hiring to the ‘immigration application WAS ALL TOO FAST! I was hired within 4 days of making the application! Pictures of my apartment were sent, referred to an ‘immigration company’, etc. etc. Last but not least, My friends in Turkey checked out the address as they have family living in Istanbul and guess what?? NO SUCH SCHOOL at the address they provided!

As soon as I asked them to provide identification, passports and school registration details, they backed off a bit!! Now, they wont answer my emails or whatsApp messages!!

This is the school’s website! I am so surprised that TTA didn’t verify the ’employer’!! The URL even looks dodgy!

https://www.soma-karsprivateschool.co

Please pass this onto as many ESL teachers that you know because obviously some have been conned already!!

Be safe when planning to work abroad!

Zia

]]> By: Trusted TEFL Reviews https://trustedteflreviews.com/2025/09/09/tta-the-tefl-academy/#comment-1743 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 11:16:36 +0000 https://trustedteflreviews.com/?p=11999#comment-1743 In reply to Myles.

Myles.

Thanks for your comment.

Trusted TEFL Reviews has researched and presented the facts and it is up to you to make up your mind for yourself.

We recommend taking a look at the TEFL Course Directory to view the rankings of Online TEFL programs and to see whether a program is Fully Accredited or not.

https://trustedteflreviews.com/tefl-course-directory/

The higher up a program is listed, the more legitimate that program is.

Mia Williams – Trusted TEFL Reviews

]]> By: Myles https://trustedteflreviews.com/2025/09/09/tta-the-tefl-academy/#comment-1742 Mon, 14 Nov 2022 09:11:10 +0000 https://trustedteflreviews.com/?p=11999#comment-1742 Hello, i have just completed module 5 of the TTA level 5 top-up course. After reading these articles on TTA should i continue? Have i been scammed? I need to earn money so studying a course which will get me nowhere is kind of worrying as it will delay time in which i could be working or studying something else. Can anyone else give me advice as to where to go from here or if i can get a refund. Please help. Thank you

]]> By: Trusted TEFL Reviews https://trustedteflreviews.com/2025/09/09/tta-the-tefl-academy/#comment-1523 Wed, 08 Jun 2022 12:48:46 +0000 https://trustedteflreviews.com/?p=11999#comment-1523 Nick.

Thanks for adding your comment.

We had the exact same experience with TTA The TEFL Academy.

One week we received something like 30 reviews of its program.
We were only able to verify one of the reviews and some of the reviews came from the same ip address.

We traced the reviews back to Dublin, where TTA The TEFL Academy has its company headquarters.

When we refused to publish the reviews, TTA The TEFL Academy began attacking me and Trusted TEFL Reviews.

The abuse and harassment has been prolonged and intense.

Mia Williams – Trusted TEFL Reviews

]]> By: Nick https://trustedteflreviews.com/2025/09/09/tta-the-tefl-academy/#comment-1522 Wed, 08 Jun 2022 09:30:22 +0000 https://trustedteflreviews.com/?p=11999#comment-1522 I also noticed the fake reviews.
Just don’t know why this company thinks people are so stupid not to see that getting 10 5 star reviews in one day is fishy.
And that’s just on reviews.co.uk.
I had another check and it has about the same number on other review sites for the same time period.
Someone posts a negative review and 10 positive reviews are added to hide the 1 negative review.

I thought the course was ok.
2.5 out of 5.

I actually don’t care that it isn’t accredited.
My plan is to volunteer and I just needed any TEFL certificate for this purpose.

]]> By: Trusted TEFL Reviews https://trustedteflreviews.com/2025/09/09/tta-the-tefl-academy/#comment-1506 Fri, 27 May 2022 09:19:44 +0000 https://trustedteflreviews.com/?p=11999#comment-1506 In reply to TEFLexpert.

TEFLexpert.

Thanks for adding your comments to this article.

Vantage TEFL makes the list because it receives consistent, very positive customer feedback.

It is the only program on the list that isn’t Fully Accredited, but it is Accredited and it does provide an excellent online/in-person (combined) training course for people wanting to teach English in Thailand.

The 5 Best Online TEFL TESOL courses to take in 2022 list is compiled based on verified customer reviews.

Mia Williams – Trusted TEFL Reviews

]]> By: TEFLexpert https://trustedteflreviews.com/2025/09/09/tta-the-tefl-academy/#comment-1505 Fri, 27 May 2022 08:45:33 +0000 https://trustedteflreviews.com/?p=11999#comment-1505 I would never recommend The TEFL Academy.
It’s not an accredited program.
Really don’t know for how long it can keep lying to its customers about its accreditation credentials when it has none to speak of.
The burden of guilt should also fall on AQC, DEAC, and QUALIFI because they obviously must know that TEFL Academy is misrepresenting itself.
I guess that as long as the money keeps flowing to them from TEFL Academy’s bank account, they have very little motivation to take a moral high ground stand.
Programs like The TEFL Academy give TEFL a bad rep.
It’s good to see that they have been exposed and have been given the opportunity to respond to the accusations.
It’s a shame that they haven’t, but this isn’t shocking to me.
If it were my company, I would have responded immediately.
If it were my company though, I wouldn’t be luring in TEFL Course buyers through false claims.
Choose a different TEFL provider folks.
I see that Mia maintains a current list of the top 5 TEFL/TESOL programs.
Not sure if I would have included Vantage TEFL on the list, but the other 4 IMO are solid TEFL course provider choices.
TEFL Online Pro, OISE University of Toronto TEFL, CIEE TEFL, and Maximo Nivel TEFL are all fully accredited and you will be able to use their TEFL/TESOL certificates for all online and on-site international teaching jobs.

]]> By: Trusted TEFL Reviews https://trustedteflreviews.com/2025/09/09/tta-the-tefl-academy/#comment-1504 Thu, 26 May 2022 07:58:28 +0000 https://trustedteflreviews.com/?p=11999#comment-1504 I thought that I should update this article because there have been some recent developments.

Trusted TEFL Reviews has been in regular contact with QUALIFI – one of the companies that TTA The TEFL Academy claims it is accredited by.

QUALIFI stated in an email to Trusted TEFL Reviews that TTA The TEFL Academy is accredited by DEAC and that TTA The TEFL Academy is accredited by QUALIFI.

When we asked QUALIFI why TTA The TEFL Academy is not listed as an accredited institution in the DEAC database, QUALIFI responded that it is because Americans have a different concept of “approval” and “accreditation”.

This is (obviously) simply not true.

There is a worldwide distinction between being “approved” and being “accredited”.

When we asked QUALIFI why TTA The TEFL Academy is not stated as being accredited on the QUALIFI website, we never received a response back and all communication from QUALIFI ceased.

We view this as being a major red flag.

The truth of the matter is that TTA The TEFL Academy is NOT accredited by the DEAC, AQC or by QUALIFI.

TTA The TEFL Academy is approved by AQC and is approved by QUALIFI.

“Approved” is NOT the same as “Accredited” or “Fully Accredited”.

This really is a case of the king having no clothes.

TTA The TEFL Academy is not accredited or fully accredited by the DEAC because it is not listed in the DEAC directory of accredited institutions.

TTA The TEFL Academy is not accredited or fully accredited by AQC because AQC only has the authority to approve institutions.

TTA The TEFL Academy is not accredited or fully accredited by QUALIFI because QUALIFI only has the authority to approve institutions.

QUALIFI claims that TTA The TEFL Academy is accredited by Ofqual, but this is also misleading. Ofqual regulates courses. It doesn’t accredit them.

TTA The TEFL Academy is fully aware of this article because we notified them of its publication.

They have had ample time to write a response, debunking our claims.

They have not.

Instead, TTA The TEFL Academy has continued to attack Trusted TEFL Reviews and has tried to have this article and other TTA The TEFL Academy articles on Trusted TEFL Reviews deleted.

Mia Williams – Trusted TEFL Reviews

]]> By: TEFLexpert https://trustedteflreviews.com/2025/09/09/tta-the-tefl-academy/#comment-1497 Sun, 22 May 2022 07:30:07 +0000 https://trustedteflreviews.com/?p=11999#comment-1497 Do you mean these two schools?
https://bridge.edu/tefl/
https://teflonlinepro.com
Both offer fully accredited TEFL/TESOL certification training and both run a 120-Hour TEFL/TESOL program that is Level 5/CELTA/Trinity TESOL equivalent and internationally recognized.
You can’t go wrong with either school.
I would check out their prices and go with the one offering the better deal.
Both offer identical services and certifications.

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