This week we brought you the story of how the first ever “TBI” online learning course, “Islands”, was in fact copyrighted to Pearson-Longman, the respected British publisher who is also the owner of Wall Street English. We also revealed that TBI, with typical duplicity, has been claiming in their “Islands” blurb that they “have been…
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…
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…
July must have been some kind of month in TBI Jakarta and Bandung as a large chunk of their existing staff all headed for the exit door simultaneously. And we aren’t just talking about a few front-desk staff here. Multiple key positions were all vacated in a matter of weeks. They were 23 separate job ads we…
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…
2014 has been a terrible year for TBI Jakarta. They have been badly damaged by the arrival of a cashed-up new competitor at FX Mall, a posh mall on Jalan Sudirman, in the second half of 2013. While Wall Street long ago eclipsed The Brutish Institute in the capital, chalking up 8000 enrolments in the capital to TBI’s, er,…
The first thing to establish here is that TBI did lose the fight for Jakarta. Self-evident as it has been to us for a long time, you certainly won’t hear the authorities at TBI admitting it. Even as competitors have stolen massive chunks of market share from them, the TBI ostriches have gone on sticking their heads…
In this sixth interview about the antics of the TBI Mafia, we interview the former school manager of TBI Kelapa Gading. In this interview he discusses developments at TBI in 2012 and how they show the final conquest of the TBI Mafia over all imaginary rivals. Were all of the Indonesian school managers complicit in…
In this part of the interview we investigate the chronology of events and try and determine how and when the interviewee (a former manager of TBI Kuningan) became aware that something was very wrong within TBI. Can you describe the process by which you became aware that TBI was riddled with corruption? It happened gradually…
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