Category: Eikaiwa

The NOVA Students’ Association held its first meeting here on Friday, with many students appearing worried as they listened to the explanations about the company. About 1,000 participants poured into a hall in Osaka with a capacity of about 250, prompting the sponsor of the meeting to quickly find another location. The group was formed…

Preparatory school operator G.education has officially taken over NOVA, the failed operator of Japan’s largest English conversation school chain, company officials said. The takeover took effect after a representative for G.education and receivers for NOVA signed an agreement on the handover on Tuesday. Osaka-based NOVA filed for court protection from creditors under the Corporate Rehabilitation…

A company that has taken over NOVA Corp., the failed English school chain, has opened a new school here, company officials said. G.education, based in Nagoya, remodeled its “EC” English school as a NOVA school and opened it near Nagoya Station in Nakamura-ku. The company will hold meetings for NOVA students and new students on…

The court-appointed trustees of Nova Corp. have given up trying to rehabilitate the nation’s largest language-school chain and have chosen a Nagoya-based company to take over part of Nova’s business. Although the trustees’ quick decision suggested that a business solution was at hand and the new company says it will “basically hire” all Nova teachers…

Nagoya-based G. communication Group, which will take over business operations of the failed English-language school chain Nova Corp., announced Monday it had issued unofficial job offers to 1,760 foreign teachers and Japanese staff formerly employed by Nova. G. communication plans to issue job offers to a further 694 people from Nova who have registered their…

On Saturday, meetings were held across Japan for Nova Corp. instructors and staff, to provide information about the sponsor’s plans for the future. Given the short notice (about two days), there was an impressive turnout at the meeting I went to, one of two held at Nova’s office in Shinjuku. A large number of the…

The business failure of Nova Corp.–the nation’s largest English-language school chain–left about 300,000 students in the lurch. This raises the question of how customers can be better protected when a business goes belly-up. G.education Co., a Nagoya-based cram school operator, will take over Nova businesses, which last month filed for court protection from creditors under…

Students of failed English conversation giant NOVA Corp. have formed a support group, and are urging others to join them. The NOVA Seito no Kai was formed over the weekend by students of the failed chain. Organizers say they aim to work collectively to negotiate with NOVA’s apparent savior, Nagoya-based company G.communication grp. and the…

G.communication Co., due to take over part of the business operations of failed language school operator Nova Corp., plans to reopen a Nova school in Nagoya as early as this weekend, company officials said Sunday. The Nova Kurokawa school in Nagoya’s Kita Ward would be the first Nova school to be reopened by G.communication, a…

About 70 former students of bankrupt language-school Nova Corp. launched the Nova Students’ Association on Saturday to organize the abandoned pupils. “Former students have been left out,” said Joji Yamabuki, 44, head of the group. “We would like to gather as many students as possible to take a joint action.” Following its establishment, the group…