The posts from the first ever expat teacher to complete his contract at TBI Bekasi have generated a large amount of views. The TBI Mafia have long claimed that no one is interested in this blog, but it had around 6,000 views in the first six weeks of 2013. Is 1000 views a week (around…
The recent report from the first ever expat teacher to complete a contract at TBI Bekasi has attracted a great deal of interest and debate, as has the revelation that TBI has been pocketing its own teachers’ THR in a scam which must have netted someone tens of thousands of dollars in recent years. We…
Binsar has tried to recruit several teachers. Four teachers have come to TBI Bekasi to give teaching demonstrations. I know that 3 of them didn’t have any teaching experience nor degree qualifications, as again Binsar discussed these recruitments with me. I asked Binsar during these discussions would he be happy having these teachers teach IELTS…
Binsar had got me a proper working visa and KITAS which is better than other TBI schools by the sounds of things. However, he insists on keeping your KITAS as he’s paranoid youmay be working elsewhere in your free time. The previous teacher, P****, complained about this and said that he wasn’t legally allowed to…
Part 2. Contract Negotiations and Problems The salary offered was Rp9 million per month for 24 hours a week and Rp100,000 per hour for overtime. I knew this was a low salary for TBI but compared to my EF salary of Rp7 million it was an improvement. As it was my second year teaching I…
Today we start a new series of reports from a TBI teacher. Over the next month we will be featuring two or three posts a week from this TBI Bekasi expat teacher, who has just resigned. In his well-written, lucid and perceptive report, he offers a stark portrait of a failing school and the man…
In this interview we touch base with one of the TBI Bekasi victims. We ask our informant what he makes of the latest massive fee increases at TBI Bekasi Sun City and much else besides. A student from TBI Bekasi SunCity informed us that there had been a sudden increase of around 33% in tuition…
In September 2012, we re-interviewed one of the four victims of Binsar (TBI Bekasi) who we have had contact with. He is a busy businessperson these days, who views TBI as the worst six months of his life. We asked him about the allegations being aired by Matthew, Colm and Luke that we are psychotics,…
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…
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