Really I haven’t posted that much about TBI this year. First of all, I was focusing on Rumah Bahasa, a new rogue operator which was employing teachers on tourists visas and taking up to 3 months to “process” customer refunds. Mind you, this wasn’t just any capricious demand for a refund. Rumah Bahasa had failed…
http://tbikuningan.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/chezal-post-9-pimping-tbi-bandung-in-april-2013-4-years-on/ We have learned that two Internet users “Tudor” and “Chezal” have posted 600 times between them on Dave’s ESL cafe and Living in Indonesia Forum between 2009 and today. Every single thread that has been started about either site about TBI has been inundated with comments from these 2 users for the past 4…
Tudor Member Join Date Apr 2011 Posts 234 As Lantern says, TBI’s CELTA course has a decent reputation. However, the work permit regulations (English/Education degree) are being applied albeit haphazardly. Indeed, TBI themselves are finding it very difficult to recruit teachers who have these particular qualifications. I’ve also heard a (totally unsubstantiated as yet)…
I have spent some time the last few days reviewing all the posts on Dave’s ESL Cafe about TBI (and many about the ESL industry in Jakarta generally) which have accumulated since 2009. In this post I want to outline and overview my impressions and also to sound a warning note about issues of bias…
Tudor Joined: 21 Aug 2009Posts: 215 Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2011 1:35 pm Post subject: TBI isn’t in Mega Kuningan, it’s in Menara Kuningan on Jl Rasuna Said between Gor Sumantri and Karet busway shelters….I’d concur with the rest of the advice though!
chezalJoined: 25 Feb 2009 Posts: 122 Posted: Mon Apr 08, 2013 5:40 am Post subject: Yawn. Ragil wrote: https://tbilanguageschool.org/Thoughts anyone? Yawn. I can’t believe he is still posting a year on. If you look at the lack of comments it suggests that nobody else really cares about this ranting either. I don’t know who the…
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…
One of the greatest rackets that TBI has always run on its critics is to accuse them of having bad grammar. David Bradbury, the CELTA Trainer, was horrific in this manner. He seemed to think it was good manners to correct people’s grammar and pronunciation in social situations. Apparently in his world, stroking his own…
Can you explain the circumstances in which Wati appeared as school manager of TBI Kuningan? I was told by Luke Preece she was appointed because she was good friends with the Uni SadhuGuna Director, Ning Anhar. So Luke stated that this appointment was based on cronyism? Yes, absolutely. Who was on the interview panel who…
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…
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