In recent years TBI has committed many grave offences to the English teachers of Bandung. Worst of all, of course, was forcing out veteran manager and teacher Ratna so that Luke Preece’s unpopular crony, Scott Martin, could become school manager at TBI Jalan Riau without an expertise or knowledge at all: no degree in any…
In this interview we look at the real power politics, the endless turf war between Ning Anhar and Mariam Kartikatresni, which paralyzed TBI for years. We interview the former manager of TBI Kuningan, the biggest school in the company, for insight into the toxic relationship of these TBI heavyweights. I was once asked by a…
More than six months six months ago we first posted allegations that Binsar had threatened to kill expat teachers at TBI Bekasi Suncity. We also pointed out that Ashley and Luke have audited the school of Bekasi and given it a clean bill of health. They are totally complicit in the Bekasi disaster, so they are desperate…
People wanting a promising career in the TEFL industry in Indonesia would be well-advised to give TBI’s failing business model a miss and go straight to the “premium end” market leader- Wall Street Indonesia. This has been the case for several years now with respect to qualified teachers (TBI has been reduced to relying on…
WALL STREET ENGLISH Wall Street English is a part of Pearson, a well-known company whose core business is education, business information, and publishing. Pearson is currently listed on the New York and London stock-exchange. The first Wall Street English center was opened in Ratu Plaza in 2007. Until now, Wall Street English has six centers spread all over Jakarta; in Ratu Plaza, La…
With 2013 coming to a close, it might be a good time to take out the crystal ball and ask what the future holds for the TEFL industry in Indonesia in 2014. While anything is possible, a few signs are emerging of the shape of things to come. Wall Street have announced that they are…
We have long argued that TBI’s insistence on axing expats and replacing them with “low cost” Indonesians was a greedy, short-sighted policy that was placing TBI’s reputation at risk. The most spectacular example yet is TBI Kelapa Gading’s latest manager (my how TBI burns through managers, with Head Office scapegoating them for their own mind-blowing…
Rumah Bahasa adalah sekolahan bahasa tapi sayangnya Bahasa Inggrisnya tidak tepat. Lihatlah iklan ini dan anda bisa lihat banyak kata yang salah. Contoh RB menulis: “We have so many language“. Ini salah. Bahasa Inggrisnya yang tepat adalah: “We have so many languages.” Terus mereka menulis: “We have baby class, kids class, teenager class, and adult…
In recent days Rumah Bahasa have gone on the offensive in an attempt to silence all dissent and hush-up the scandal about their school. (We use the word “school” loosely, as the word “school” usually suggests the presence of qualified teachers and there are allegedly none at Rumah Bahasa.) To people who have observed TBI’s…
The situation at Rumah Bahasa has taken a marked turn for the worse in recent days, and the new managers of this school have gone on the rampage, threatening to sue the whistle-blower who first exposed their fraudulent business model and even challenging him to a fist fight. For the authors of this blog, we…
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