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…
Over recent years TBI has found that our Children students are learning more and more through the application of new technologies and with this in mind we have been working on new developing approaches and programmes that will allow us to better engage these ‘digital natives’. This incredibly deceptive claim can be found on the…
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…
We have been alerted to a disgracefully cheap new promotion from TBI being run in November 2013. Even for these jaded TBI observers who have long doubted they could sink any lower, this one comes as a surprise. It turns out that TBI is now so cheap, nasty and miserly that it is now charging…
We have told what we know of the Eny story because we feel it has been insufficiently known until now. If Eny was as hot as people used to say when TBI Fatmawati boomed, why had she done markedly less well at Kuningan? If she was such a lionized example of business prowess, why had…
When Eny was first appointed as School Manager of TBI Fatmawati in the wake of Chris Needham’s spectacular failure at the school, TBI Head Office pumped almost one billion rupiah (Rp 1.000.000.000) in advertising and promotion funds into the school. This was an unheard of amount for TBI to invest in marketing. For most of…
The behavior of Nida, the newish School Manager of TBI Fatmawati, would be very peculiar in most contexts, but it is strangely typical of The British Institute. After all, pathological lying from Luke Preece has been his main contribution to the culture of TBI. Nida has probably been inducted into the culture of massive and…
Have you ever heard of an ESL school, or any sane company for that matter, create rumors of a vigilante attack on an unpopular manager of their own school as a way of improving their image? Well, down right bizarre as this sounds, it is what has happened at TBI Fatmawati in recent weeks! So…
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