When I first started this blog I was bombarded with vaguely ominous emails about the many, many “sins” of Cam at TBI Kuningan. This never made much sense to me. Why had they promoted him FOUR times between 2009 and 2011 if he had been as bad as they said? Why had Luke gushed with…
Over the next few days we wish to address a theme that has been somewhat neglected on this blog until now. The theme is that TBI has long been financially mismanaged, which partly accounts for its long-term ability to flourish. (The other reason is the mixture of toxic and even pathological personalities who have controlled…
RagilJoined: 26 Jun 2009 Posts: 23 Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:14 am Post subject: Right. Didn’t stop TBI Malang’s previous DOS who (not for reasons quite possibly unrelated to educational qualifications – or lack thereof – was a complete philistine and likely psychotic) didn’t even have a degree, let alone a relevant major of…
The ability to make accurate predictions is important in the sciences as a means of testing different theories. The people who believed in a ‘Flat Earth’ were proven wrong when Magellan circumnavigated the globe. The same applies in other fields. Keynesian economists seem to have had a better time of it in the current…
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…
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,…
TBI Semarang went bankrupt in 2012, going out of business after 5 lackluster years. During that time it had been the victim of visa scams, 6 different claims of sexual harassment by female employees against Helmy, the former manager, who also embezzled around $8000 from the budget. Typically, he was recommended by a former manager who…
This photo comes from the opening of TBI Semarang in 2008. It comes from the TBI Semarang Facebook, which hasn’t been updated in several years! We have some big news to bring readers on TBI Semarang on Monday. We will send a free Tibby doll to the first three readers who write in to us…
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