Comments on: “Avoid the TEFL Academy” https://trustedteflreviews.com/2025/09/09/avoid-the-tefl-academy/ TEFL and TESOL Online Certification Course Reviews in 2026. Sun, 21 Dec 2025 08:21:29 +0000 hourly 1 By: Maria https://trustedteflreviews.com/2025/09/09/avoid-the-tefl-academy/#comment-4036 Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:04:15 +0000 https://trustedteflreviews.com/?p=8481#comment-4036 TTA (The TEFL Academy) is a shady company! They must have partnership deals with other review websites because there is no way they’re getting 10+ real positive reviews a day. Do they own r/TEFL also? That subreddit was trying to (heavily) convince me to take a TEFL Academy course. In the end I had to leave the group and block the moderator from contacting me any more. The Testimonials page on their website also looks sketchy. I agree: TTA The TEFL Academy is one to avoid folks.

]]> By: Trusted TEFL Reviews https://trustedteflreviews.com/2025/09/09/avoid-the-tefl-academy/#comment-1207 Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:45:51 +0000 https://trustedteflreviews.com/?p=8481#comment-1207 Marta,

Trusted TEFL Reviews agrees with your recommendation to avoid The TEFL Academy.

The TEFL Academy – https://www.theteflacademy.com/ ] claims that they are fully accredited, but their certificates are only recognized within the UK – if you plan on teaching online or abroad, a TEFL Academy certificate just won’t suffice.

The TEFL Academy also claims that they are a cheaper (equivalent to) CELTA certification option.

There is a simple way to debunk this claim. Anyone can contact any school offering the CELTA qualification and ask that school whether a TEFL Academy certificate is accepted for a job position at that CELTA school. I am willing to bet that 10 times out of 10, the CELTA school will reply that a TEFL Academy certificate is not recognized as a CELTA qualification equivalent.

We don’t write so openly so often in terms of labeling certain TEFL schools as being scam operations, but The TEFL Academy is 100% a scam operation. Avoid.

Mia Williams

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