In this part we explore the wisdom of Ashley Platts, whose enlightened leadership of the TBI-Tanic is now the stuff of legend. Tell me the story about the mobile phone and Ashley. I love that one. This dates from 2007, when I had just started as a teacher at TBI. At that time Ashley Platts…

One of the things which stands out in these interviews is how rarely Mariam’s name comes up. Hence, we have named the next part ‘Where was Mariam?’ We wanted to explore the theory that Mariam’s negligence and incompetence is fundamental to all the problems in TBI.   How often did Mariam Kartikatresni visit you individually…

In this interview we discuss TBI’s policy of removing expat managers little by little and ask where Luke and Ashley fit in with this policy.  Does TBI have a formal policy of phasing out bule (expat) managers? I have never seen it written down, and it certainly isn’t something that is said to teachers- it…