company . for the canadian interbank network see interac . interac type corporation industry education founded september 1972 headquarters tokyo japan number of locations 13 regional offices in japan services education consultation publishing language testing website http www.interacnetwork.com interac is a japanese comprehensive educational consultation company founded in 1972 . 1 the name is an acronym for international education research and analysis corporation although the company has never operated under that name . interac originally concentrated on teaching business english then shifted focus to providing assistant language teachers alts to public elementary middle and high schools . interac provides teachers to schools around japan . 2 the company has fifteen domestic branches within japan 3 with associated offices in salt lake city and oxford . there are approximately 100 administrative staff and a teaching team of over 2500 alts and language teachers for english and other languages . 3 4 contents 1 clients 2 ownership 3 union representation 4 see also 5 references clients edit interac has fifteen branches servicing over 7000 different client organizations . mostly these are local boards of education to whom interac provides alts . the scope of this teaching in public schools is quite large and the estimate based on government figures is that about 17.33 % or 1 in 5.76 students is taught by an interac teacher weekly . 5 about 10 % of its business is in providing language instruction to companies such as ito yokado 3 honda hitachi mitsubishi and nec as well as japanese governmental organizations such as the japan international cooperation agency . 4 ownership edit from 2010 to 2014 interac was owned by advantage partners . since april 2014 interac has become part of link & motivation inc tse 2170 . 6 union representation edit in western japan some interac teachers are represented by the general union . 7 in southern japan interac teachers are represented by the fukuoka general union . 8 in the tokyo area and north eastern japan interac teachers are unionized in zenkoku ippan tokyo general union tozen alts local . 9 see also edit education in japan jet programme references edit interac japan s leading private provider of assistant language teachers official website . see about interac section . retrieved 9 february 2011 . outsourced alts . yomiuri shimbun . august 26 2006 . archived from the original on january 2 2010 . retrieved 2007 11 21 . cs1 maint unfit url link a b c japan today executive impact interac darrin mcneal . retrieved 2012 05 11 . a b interac website about interac . archived from the original on april 19 2012 . retrieved 2012 05 11 ... ministry of education culture sports science and technology japan . retrieved 10 december 2012 . interac . about interac . interac . retrieved 30 april 2014 . general union website general union interac retrieved september 30 2015 fukuoka general union website fgu fukuoka general union retrieved september 30 2015 tozen website about the interac union retrieved september 30 2015 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title interac japan & oldid 738661738 categories english conversation schools in japanhidden categories cs1 maint unfit urljapan articles missing geocoordinate dataall articles needing coordinates navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 10 september 2016 at 09 33 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view