“More on Luke Preece please. It’s very interesting. I knew him when he was making lunches for TBI Dago. What’s he up to now?” This request found its way into our inbox a few days ago, and we haven’t had the chance to respond to it until now. After all, we thought we had tirelessly…
In the past year or so, TBI has finally become a registered company, PT. Titian Buana Ilmu. What did you make of this development? They had been talking about registering as a company for a long time, but like most of their plans, it took much longer to happen than they planned. Many years longer.…
After the closure of the first thread, TBI wasn’t done yet with trying to turn Living in Indonesia into a vehicle for their disinformation campaign. VardBon might have been gone, but a mysterious new user, ToBellow, turned up and starting say exactly the same things. ToBellow immediately started a scare campaign that was heavy on…
A few days ago we announced the pleasing news that The British Council, already in Medan, will be opening schools in Jakarta and Surabaya too, opening around March 2015. This will provide another respected, reliable alternative to unscrupulous local operators such as TBI (PT. Titian Buama Ilmu) or (even worse), Rumah Bahasa, a rogue school…
One of the most salient features of TBI’s legal letter to WordPress was the way that they fell into their favorite role when dealing with 3rd parties. As always, they start playing the victim and alleging that the person telling the truth about them is a vicious bully. Look at the legal document they sent…
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…
Another week, another case of rampant age discrimination at TBI: the so-called British Institute, which is really about as British as a plateful of oily nasi goreng from a Jakarta street stall. We recently reported, based on a series of online job ads, that TBI is no longer accepting managers who aren’t youthful. The maximum…
When this blog started in 2012, TBI was caught completely by surprise. After years of covering up abuses at TBI Bekasi, not to mention the embezzlement of over Rp2 billion at TBI Dago when Luke Preece was manager there, the TBI authorities had a lot of practice at keeping the lid on their dirty secrets. They…
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…
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