Look at Screen Dumps #19 and #20 and you will find one section which says ‘management services’. It looks quite innocent and innocuous but it it may be the single biggest smoking gun of dodgy accounting practices on the whole tax-evading scam of an income statement. You see the deduction made for these management services…
Today we start a new series of reports from a TBI teacher. Over the next month we will be featuring two or three posts a week from this TBI Bekasi expat teacher, who has just resigned. In his well-written, lucid and perceptive report, he offers a stark portrait of a failing school and the man…
M Before we ran the story of the school closures at Semarang and Malang we asked people inside TBI whether they had heard of it, including both teachers and students. No one knew it had happened; not one word of explanation had been given. Why are TBI so totally secretive with their own staff? I…
There have been a lot of bad and inaccurate ideas thrown about in the attempt to discredit this blog. There have been the vile homophobic taunts, as if exposing corruption had anything to do with sexual preference; there have been the lies spread by Luke Preece that we were fired, since proven wrong by emails…
Part 4. Where Did All the Children Go, Nunu? We have been slowly exploring how Nunu Pratama could have lost 35% of classes within three months between March and May 2012. So far we have touched on a few reasons for this dismal performance: Nunu lied to the teachers he had a CELTA and…
I just read Sean’s interview with the TBI Bekasi teacher. I wanted to add a few thoughts about the teacher’s comments. 1) TBI franchise schools are not supposed to do price increases in September, so the teacher is absolutely right to wonder whether Binsar has done this with official approval. Price increases are only supposed…
In this interview we touch base with one of the TBI Bekasi victims. We ask our informant what he makes of the latest massive fee increases at TBI Bekasi Sun City and much else besides. A student from TBI Bekasi SunCity informed us that there had been a sudden increase of around 33% in tuition…
We can now confirm that TBI Semarang has shut its doors and gone bankrupt. This is the second TBI school which has closed down within the last two months, exposing the current management mafia as inept, clueless and directionless. It is a particular slap in the face for Luke Preece, who campaigned ruthlessly in 2010…
The reason that TBI has recently tried to force confidentiality agreements on innocent teachers is surely because they have so many skeletons in the closet. It is amazing to think that what we, at this blog, know is probably only a small fraction of the true extent of improper conduct at TBI. Until we started…
Even in a language school known for its atrocious management, the story of TBI Semarang is well below average. And, as always, the usual suspects are involved. We used to think they were incompetent; now we know that they simply have no standards or integrity in business. When TBI Semarang opened the TBI Franchise Manager,…
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