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…
A few days ago we reported that TBI has done yet another major back-flip on one of their treasured policies, unofficially ending the disastrous “Indonesianization of management” policy. As we have shown, as late as 2009 all of their Group schools were managed by expats, and by early 2012 none of them were. This change…
We have often been informed that the “Indonesianization of management” policy which was pursued by TBI with cut-throat abandon in 2010 and 2011 has not been the glowing success that Ashley, Mariam and Luke envisaged. In fact, in the last 3 and a half years, TBI has seen 2 schools close permanently- TBI Semarang and…
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…
1. TBI Dago Mid 2010 2. TBI Fatmawati Mid 2010 3. TBI Sudirman Early 2011 4.TBI Kuningan Late 2011 5. TBI Riau …
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,…
Yesterday we drew your attention to the woeful Facebook page of TBI Bekasi, a school whose manager has allegedly robbed, cheated and sexually abused his staff members over a period of years. We showed that while Binsar had been busy giving “special tickles” to the unfortunate women who worked for him, he had not applied himself with the…
Today we were alerted to the, ahem, TBI Suncity Bekasi Facebook page. Now you wouldn’t exactly expect it to world-class, would you? But what we saw was shockingly bad: a reminder that no matter how low you rate them, they are actually somewhat worse than what you think. I mean, honestly, they shouldn’t by running a nasi goreng stand let…
Rent-seeking is one of the more interesting economic concepts to have emerged from the academic literature since the 1960s, but it is still a rather neglected concept in the mainstream media. Perhaps this is because the term can be rather confusing at first glance; it has nothing to do with renting or rentals in the…
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…
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