Never let it be said that TBI has any deeply-held values. Yes, they are incredibly greedy (in a short-term way) but that is surely a vice, not a value. There are no moral beliefs that I can see that have ever trumped short-term expediencies or the lure of an easy dollar. Respect for their customers?…
The screenshot above is taken from the TBI website. It has the bland, same-old-same-old look that one associates with everything they do: a splash of maroon, a few stale boasts about former glories and, last of all, a string of dull bullet points. You’ve seen the same tired format every time they’ve produced anything since…
Over the past week or so, we have focused on the fact that TBI Bandung keeps losing teachers to Penabur due to offering a very low salary of just Rp. 11-12 jt. per month. With this post we want to look at the long history of these low wages outside Jakarta; additionally, we want to…
In recent days we have reported that Anita Pasaribu has been replaced as SM of TBI Kelapa Gading after less than a year. She followed work-shy hypochondriac Nugraha (Nunu) who casually admitted to the whole staff that he didn’t like being school manager because it was a lot of work and he was “basically a…
In 2013 we alerted readers to the fact that TBI Kelapa Gading had made an astonishing choice for their next School Manager. Indeed, it struck us as so ridiculous that we openly mocked the choice from the start. This was a case where caution was not required. Anyone with a lick of common sense would…
One of the things that we spent a lot of time establishing in the first year of this blog was that TBI was actually under the umbrella of USG (UniSadhuGuna), a murky organization which was led by Ning Anhar. We cited the nepotism, incompetence and cronyism of Ibu Ning as one of the main reasons…
We have identified the prevalence of “magical thinking” as one of the hallmarks of TBI. Rather than basing their claims on any objective criteria or awards, which frankly don’t exist, they merely heap compliments and praise on themselves. The much-loathed TBI Head Office is filled with cronies of Mariam and Luke who regularly engage in chimpanzee-like grooming…
One of the most insidious problems that I encountered while working at TBI was the prevalence of what psychologists call “magical thinking”. While this thinking was less in evidence at the wretched TBI franchise schools, which had mostly had years of disappointing sales and low student numbers to cure them of their illusions, it was absolutely…
Originally posted on tbilanguageschool:
KOTA BOGOR Dua Guru WNA Ilegal Dideportasi Kamis, 7 Juni 2007 BOGOR (Suara Karya): Dua warga negara asing (WNA) ditangkap aparat Imigrasi Bogor usai mengajar di The British Institut (TBI) di Ruko Blok K-L, Jalan Pajajaran No 88, Kelurahan Bantarjati, Kecamatan Bogor Utara, Kota Bogor, Rabu (6/5). Mereka adalah Crawley D*******…
The last couple of months have surely been tumultuous at The British Institute. In the last few days alone there have been no less than 23 job ads for positions at TBI schools. A couple of these have been for the much-vaunted and frequently delayed TBI Bali (the school was originally slated to open in…
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