In 2013 we broke the story of a scandalous new school chain in Jakarta: Rumah Bahasa, The House of Language. We had received a tip off about lies and scams at Rumah Bahasa from a teacher who had gone for an interview and then an information session. He had painted a portrait of utter dysfunction:…
When this blog started in 2012, TBI was caught completely by surprise. After years of covering up abuses at TBI Bekasi, not to mention the embezzlement of over Rp2 billion at TBI Dago when Luke Preece was manager there, the TBI authorities had a lot of practice at keeping the lid on their dirty secrets. They…
The screenshot above is taken from the TBI website. It has the bland, same-old-same-old look that one associates with everything they do: a splash of maroon, a few stale boasts about former glories and, last of all, a string of dull bullet points. You’ve seen the same tired format every time they’ve produced anything since…
Just to mix it up a little, with this post I want to move away from the focus on TBI’s low wages and demoted managers (such as Anita Pasaribu). Instead, I’d like to address a specific (and rather odd) allegation that has been by our detractors. This is the claim that the exposure of TBI as…
Over the past week or so, we have focused on the fact that TBI Bandung keeps losing teachers to Penabur due to offering a very low salary of just Rp. 11-12 jt. per month. With this post we want to look at the long history of these low wages outside Jakarta; additionally, we want to…
Yesterday we posted a comment from an online forum in which a prolific commentator known as “Tudor” discussed the status quo (as of August 2014) in the Indonesian TEFL industry. This comment-poster is in no way aligned with us; in fact, he has been highly critical of this blog and its authors in the past.…
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2014 3:29 am Post subject: Sorry but I’m not naming schools as I’m not willing to point the finger at anyone who works at these places – I don’t see that would achieve anything. I simply wanted to debunk the myth that someone without a degree cannot get work in Indonesia…
One of the greatest lies pedalled by the TBI authorities is that working in their schools is a good idea for your career. In reality, working for TBI has long proved to be one of the biggest mistakes that you could make. Whether you are a teacher or a manager, again and again TBI has…
In recent days we have reported that Anita Pasaribu has been replaced as SM of TBI Kelapa Gading after less than a year. She followed work-shy hypochondriac Nugraha (Nunu) who casually admitted to the whole staff that he didn’t like being school manager because it was a lot of work and he was “basically a…
1. TBI Kelapa Gading is onto its 4th school manager since 2012. This is a shambolic situation which points to utter chaos and dysfunction within this school. Well-managed, successful schools simply don’t feel the need to change managers every 6 months or so. This fits the pattern of dysfunction and incompetence we have presented all…
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