Hess Educational Organization (Traditional Chinese: 何嘉仁文教機構; Pinyin: Héjiārén Wénjiào Jīgòu) is the single largest private provider of English education in Taiwan (Republic of China). Hess has an estimated 60,000 students currently enrolled. Founded in 1983 by Joseph Chu and his wife Karen Hess, it has become a large and successful business, with schools across the island. Hess also provides books and resources to other English schools across Asia to teach English as a foreign language, and also has its own chain of bookstores, which was founded in 1990. In addition to the ROC, Hess also has a branch in Singapore and has connections to both mainland China and Japan.
Hess hires native-speaking English teachers only from countries where English is the primary language. These include the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. After one year of employment, Hess employees earn a TEFL certificate, but it is not accredited by any outside official educational body.
All foreign teachers working for Hess are legally employed to work as Native-Speaking Teachers (NST's) in the ROC, and Hess provides comprehensive document-processing assistance to all its staff. Like most employers in Taiwan, Hess aids new teachers to join the national healthcare program and contributes part of the costs on a monthly basis.
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