We said yesterday that Nunu had a very poor first month as manager of TBI Kelapa Gading. Two expats came and left within a single month, the schedule was a shambles, the former ACTEL distanced herself from the school, refusing to do any more classes, and students were even left without a teacher at times…
I resigned as manager of TBI Kelapa Gading on February 29th, 2012, after a week in which the owners had lied to me many times and back-flipped on half a dozen promises (especially about making TBI Kelapa Gading finances more transparent). This was the culmination of a long struggle to get them to “go straight” and register…
Over the next few days we will explore TBI’s broken franchise system in relation to TBI Kelapa Gading, which is now on its third school manager in the past 18 months. We can confirm that Nugraha Pratama (usually known as Nunu) has been removed from the school after a year of dismal failure in…
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…
Part 4. Where Did All the Children Go, Nunu? We have been slowly exploring how Nunu Pratama could have lost 35% of classes within three months between March and May 2012. So far we have touched on a few reasons for this dismal performance: Nunu lied to the teachers he had a CELTA and…
There is one episode which occurred around this time which we have not reported for 8 months: Immigration conducted a raid on TBI Kelapa Gading in March 2012. Why did we wait so long to report on this incident? The basic answer is because we need to protect the confidentiality of our sources. While we…
In this series we are examining how Nunu Pratama, the new School Manager of Kelapa Gading, managed to lose 35% of classes from the schedule in just 3 months. We will be showing you the teaching schedule at the end of May, which was provided to us by a disgruntled casual teacher. But before we reach…
One of the very difficult things about Kelapa Gading was the fact that I had to work very hard to get the owners to accept Indonesian teachers. Kelapa Gading is a high-income part of the city and about 75% of our students were Chinese Indonesian. Many of the Chinese-Indonesians would come in and say outrageous…
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…
This really interesting article appeared in The Jakarta Globe a few days ago. It appears that in a first for Indonesia, the Supreme Court has forced big business to actually pay tax to the State. This has been creating a lot of waves in financial circles, where it has traditionally been assumed there is almost…
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