We said yesterday that Nunu had a very poor first month as manager of TBI Kelapa Gading. Two expats came and left within a single month, the schedule was a shambles, the former ACTEL distanced herself from the school, refusing to do any more classes, and students were even left without a teacher at times…
Below is a screen dump which shows Luke Preece lavishing praise on Cameron’s efforts at “bringing MK back to life” after the bad old days of Wati. As much as he tells new teachers today how terrible he was, before we started a blog exposing TBI corruption, Luke had a completely different impression of his…
Before we look at Nunu’s dismal performance in the role of school manager, let’s just look at the number of TBI procedures and policies that Ashley and Mariam broke in appointing Nunu. 1) Nunu had no CELTA or any TEFL certificate at all. They broke their own policies in appointing him. 2) Nunu had no…
Ashley Platts directly intervened at TBI Kelapa Gading just as he did at TBI Bogor, arguing that expat managers were too expensive and that I ought to be replaced by an Indonesian. (By late 2011 I was the last expat franchise school manager in the entire company. According to Platts, it was such an outrage…
I resigned as manager of TBI Kelapa Gading on February 29th, 2012, after a week in which the owners had lied to me many times and back-flipped on half a dozen promises (especially about making TBI Kelapa Gading finances more transparent). This was the culmination of a long struggle to get them to “go straight” and register…
Over the next few days we will explore TBI’s broken franchise system in relation to TBI Kelapa Gading, which is now on its third school manager in the past 18 months. We can confirm that Nugraha Pratama (usually known as Nunu) has been removed from the school after a year of dismal failure in…
How did you find the TBI Bekasi victims when you spoke to them? Let’s talk about the first two who I spoke to. I found them both very switched on, especially in terms of what TBI and the Indonesian ruling classes were really like. One of them was very well-informed abut THR and had done…
We have long said that the negative comments made about this blog are actually a very small group of people using multiple aliases. Today we offer irrefutable proof. This morning a “new” comment poster calling himself “MK Victim” has arrived. This is part of the TBI Mafia’s desperate attempts to get the spotlight off TBI…
“I have known Matthew F***** for over three years and in all my time at TBI I have never seen an employee descend in this manner. I believe that there may be other external factors influencing Matthew’s behaviour; however what is clear is that he has an agenda to damage Cameron. This seems to be his motivation going…
Part two: A week or two after I got my kitas I was called into Binsar’s office. He said there was a company class in Cikarang, and he wants me to cover the native session there for one time (since their previous native had already by then bailed.) So I went with Binsar…
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