One of the more puzzling things (for Cameron) about the whole story of Kelapa Gading was why Luke Preece promised A*** and St**** that they could get visas at TBI Kelapa Gading when they didn’t have an English degree. As Cameron said to me when I asked him about this this morning: Luke (Preece) is…
What else did you discuss in your three hour telephone marathon with Mariezka, the former school manager of Depok? Apart from the way Luke Preece had rigged Scott Martins’s appointment at TBI Jawa (now TBI Riau) in April 2010, we discussed Ashley Platts. Good old Ashley! What did Mariezka have to say about Ashley Platts?…
In this, the final part of our exposition of the end of expat school managers at TBI, we ask what it means for the future of the company and for TBI expat teachers. The most important point is obvious: There are now no opportunities for advancement. Having interviewed about 20 different teachers while I was…
http://tbikuningan.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/ashley-platts-tbi-backstabber-in-chief-seany-w-part-1-of-2-3/ This blog post is from June 2012 and in it we showed how the cowardly Ashley Platts had tried to get the remaining Franchise school expat managers, myself and RD, fired in 2011. This charlatan, Ashley Platts, caused three expat teachers to leave in 2007 in disgust at his decision to appoint Chris Needham…
1 TBI Bogor Opened in 2002 with expat manager Last expat 2011 2 TBI Kelapa Gading Opened in late 2005 with expat manager Last expat 2012 3 TBI Surabaya Opened with expat owners Special case 4 TBI Cengkareng Opened in 2006 (?) Bankrupt 5 TBI Sun City (Bekasi) Opened in 2008…
In this interview we examine the allgeations of sexual impropriety which were made against Helmy V- the former school manager of TBI Semarang and TBI Kelapa Gading. What can you tell us about Helmy V’s sexual misconduct in TBI Semarang? According to our source, Helmy had been accused of sexually harassing every single female staff…
English teachers deported to UK, U.S. The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Jakarta | Thu, June 07 2007, 9:14 AM A- A A+ BOGOR: An American and a British citizen were deported to their home countries Wednesday after they were found to have violated their visa conditions. Bogor Immigration Office head Ibrahim Saleh said the two were caught…
Did David Bradbury ever offer any proof that Ashley Platts hated gay people? Not as such. He did say that Ashley had formerly been in the military and that the British military was a very homophobic institution. But the main point he made was that Ashley Platts had never been married and that he thought…
In this part, we look at the poor advice and guidance which Ashley Platts gave his supposed friend Chris Needham and explore whether Chris was really a victim of his supposed ‘mentor’. One of the victims of Binsar mentioned that TBI “always speaks so highly of itself.” Would you say there is a culture of…
In this part of the interview we continue to explore the suspicious inconsistencies in Ashley Platt’s behaviour over time. Was Ashley’s booby, Chris Needham, promoted multiple times so as to fail, thereby advancing Ashley’s real agenda? What did both Chris Needham and Luke Preece tell you was Ashley Platt’s ultimate goal in TBI? Ashley was…
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