In light of Ratna’s removal, we think it is ethical to issue a fresh warning to anyone who has a TBI email account. In late 2011 TBI set up its own email system powered by Google. I think only managers have TBI email accounts not teachers. For example Luke Preece’s email is luke.preece@tbi.co.id. There are…
I was teaching Business English the other day to a Pre-Intermediate class and I came across a reading passage on ‘The Quality Circle’. This is a common term which is thrown around in business books these days and no doubt it is already last decade’s news on the corporate training circuit. But like most of…
In 2012 Lilies Augustin- a woman who told us she had been Luke’s lover before she was appointed as Head of Marketing of all TBI- sent out the Chinese New Year (Imlek) marketing materials at 2 pm on the day before the holiday! It was quite literally impossible to use the materials as the holiday…
In recent days we have shown the emails which proved that the owner said he regretted I had left Kelapa Gading and the casual teachers saying they were shocked we had left, all from just a day or two after the event. We have shown Lipi’s testimonial which confirms independently that we resigned. I have…
The first clash with TBI authority figures that I experienced was the emergency staff meeting, that took place on Friday 18th November. This was preceded by a memo sent out by Luke P., detailing CL’s “unfortunate resignation”. The meeting was chaired by Ms Eny and Ms Lilies. Why would the marketing officer of the whole…
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…
We have long been arguing that one of the main reasons that The British Institute is failing is because of the inept TBI Director, Mariam Kartikatresni. See Part 2. of our interview series on this blog for an exploration of this theme. With this post, we want to point to Mariam’s work as a choreographer…
In the period before Luke was about to move to Jakarta, he shifted three different teachers from Bandung into TBI Kuningan and they all caused problems. Did he ever make any comment on his poor record of recruitment? He did actually. He often said that Matthew France was a complete moron and a wanker and so…
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