Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 11:04 am Post subject: I’m considering refusing the offer of the CELTA place from this particular institution. I wasn’t impressed with the pretentious attitude of the two tutors I met, not to mention poor e-mail responses and grammar typos on the letters they sent out – these were feelings shared…
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Just a shortish weekend post to clear up a point that could be easily misconstrued. In this post I would like to address the scope of corruption within TBI (The British Institute) in general, and comment on the extent of teacher complicity specifically. We have addressed this issue indirectly in innumerable posts, but it is…
Towards the end of 2011, Luke made a number of poor decisions at TBI Kuningan. First he had let Rani, the highly successful Corporate Sales manager, leave. She was bringing in something like $20,000 of business a month on a salary of less than $400 a month and he decided to let her go! Furthermore,…
Towards the end of 2011 the owners of Menara Kuningan contacted TBI and told them that there would be a massive rent increase for 2012. They would have to pay a whopping Rp 700.000.000 rupiah more for the premises in 2012 than they had in 2011. For those not used to Indonesian rupiah, this amounted…
I have spent some time the last few days reviewing all the posts on Dave’s ESL Cafe about TBI (and many about the ESL industry in Jakarta generally) which have accumulated since 2009. In this post I want to outline and overview my impressions and also to sound a warning note about issues of bias…
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…
This afternoon we continue our investigation to one of TBI’s dirtiest little secrets: tax evasion on a massive scale. In the first two parts of this investigation, we looked how TBI had ripped off the Indonesian government and people by paying only $40 tax on $69,700 revenue at Menara Kuningan in October 2011. Its income…
Part 2: TBI’s Income Tax Scams This evening we continue our investigation into TBI’s shocking record of tax avoidance. A couple of days ago we leaked a copy of the TBI Kuningan Income Statement from October 2011 prepared by Reza Suriansha and his team in Finance. Your current…
Part 1: Avoiding Paying Corporate Tax Over the coming days we will be raising some awkward questions about the Menara Kuningan Income Statement which we leaked yesterday. It has already generated a lot of views and we see this as a good opportunity to level the playing field.…
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