Over the weekend I thought I’d do some research on the latest Indonesian schools situation. After all, this blog receives an average of 140 visits a day: we owe it to our readers- even the readers who heartily disapprove of our methods- to offer information on what is really happening. It has become harder to…
In this, the final part of our exposition of the end of expat school managers at TBI, we ask what it means for the future of the company and for TBI expat teachers. The most important point is obvious: There are now no opportunities for advancement. Having interviewed about 20 different teachers while I was…
How do you think TBI Head Office feels about TBI expat teachers? I think they’re afraid of them. That’s interesting. What makes you say that? That’s how they act. They’re scared of what they might do or say. The mere mention of a teacher’s complaint has been known to send them into paroxysms of fear.…
You achieved rapid growth in both Sudirman and Kuningan. What are the key positions in terms of achieving growth in your experience? In my opinion the most important person is the Officer Supervisor and the team of student assistants that she works with, as these are the front line people making sales. Who oversaw and…
Did David Bradbury ever offer any proof that Ashley Platts hated gay people? Not as such. He did say that Ashley had formerly been in the military and that the British military was a very homophobic institution. But the main point he made was that Ashley Platts had never been married and that he thought…
In this part, we look at the poor advice and guidance which Ashley Platts gave his supposed friend Chris Needham and explore whether Chris was really a victim of his supposed ‘mentor’. One of the victims of Binsar mentioned that TBI “always speaks so highly of itself.” Would you say there is a culture of…
In this part of the interview we continue to explore the suspicious inconsistencies in Ashley Platt’s behaviour over time. Was Ashley’s booby, Chris Needham, promoted multiple times so as to fail, thereby advancing Ashley’s real agenda? What did both Chris Needham and Luke Preece tell you was Ashley Platt’s ultimate goal in TBI? Ashley was…
In this part of the interview we investigate the glaring contradiction between Ashley Platts’s goal of getting rid of all expat managers besides himself and Luke and his tireless promotion of Chris Needham through the ranks of TBI. It has only recently occurred to us that Ashley’s useless protégé, Chris Needham, was never intended to succeed. Could…
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