Most film buffs will have heard of the 1999 film The Talented Mr. Ripley, starring Matt Damon, Gwenneth Paltrow, Jude Law and other young stars on the rise. The film was nominated for 5 Academy Awards (but didn’t win any). Still, the overall critical reception was very positive. Tom Ripley is a poor young man struggling to…
People have sometimes asked us when the penny finally dropped that Luke Preece was a very bad egg. It was more of a slow process of realization as we heard more and more strange stories about his reputation in Bandung, but if there was a single moment when we started to worry, it was after…
Both EF and Wall Street are very open and transparent about student numbers while TBI has long been secretive about them. There is a long history to this point. Back in 2009 when I first became Academic Team Leader at TBI Kuningan I was ordered by Chris Needham (the then school manager) never to tell student…
Wall Street English (WSE) is one of the world’s most successful private English language schools and currently operates in 28 countries with over 460 centers. With just 6 years in business in Jakarta, WSE’s success has been phenomenal – now over 8,000 students. http://www.eslcafe.com/joblist/index.cgi?read=28905 8000 divided by 6 = 1333 students per school. In 2012…
Where on earth did you source these perfectly rounded numbers from? The TBI defenders crew are back with silly, distracting troll comments in the box. The above is one of the more sensible examples, though it is still dumb. Are they really so stupid as to think that we are saying there are exactly 600 students…
One of the more sensible questions we have been asked by our critics is, “Why hasn’t TBI gone bankrupt if it is as bad as you say?” That is not only a good question, it is also a complex one, but we will attempt to answer it today in the broader context of our investigation…
Around 2009 Wall Street came to Kelapa Gading. It did it with the seriousness of intent and full wallet which TBI, a company which still think it’s the late 1990s, has never managed on any of its ventures. When I managed TBI Kelapa Gading I was awarded a piddling marketing budget of only Rp 3…
There are various different ‘metrics’ which companies use to measure business performance, but easily the most important is ‘market share’. During 2010-2011 I managed a TBI school which had contracts with some large automotive manufacturers and also with people in the tobacco industry. I noticed at the time that businesspeople from those companies often mentioned…
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TBI defenders are thin on the ground these days. When we first explained that TBI was a rottenly corrupt organization which had stubbornly resisted all attempts to reform it – whether from Yoni, Cameron and myself, the former Academic Manager, Ratna or GA in Malang- we first encountered angry denial. Now things are very different.…
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