Both EF and Wall Street are very open and transparent about student numbers while TBI has long been secretive about them. There is a long history to this point. Back in 2009 when I first became Academic Team Leader at TBI Kuningan I was ordered by Chris Needham (the then school manager) never to tell student…
One of the more sensible questions we have been asked by our critics is, “Why hasn’t TBI gone bankrupt if it is as bad as you say?” That is not only a good question, it is also a complex one, but we will attempt to answer it today in the broader context of our investigation…
Around 2009 Wall Street came to Kelapa Gading. It did it with the seriousness of intent and full wallet which TBI, a company which still think it’s the late 1990s, has never managed on any of its ventures. When I managed TBI Kelapa Gading I was awarded a piddling marketing budget of only Rp 3…
There are various different ‘metrics’ which companies use to measure business performance, but easily the most important is ‘market share’. During 2010-2011 I managed a TBI school which had contracts with some large automotive manufacturers and also with people in the tobacco industry. I noticed at the time that businesspeople from those companies often mentioned…
TBI defenders are thin on the ground these days. When we first explained that TBI was a rottenly corrupt organization which had stubbornly resisted all attempts to reform it – whether from Yoni, Cameron and myself, the former Academic Manager, Ratna or GA in Malang- we first encountered angry denial. Now things are very different.…
TBI is a secretive company. This is because it is a company with a lot to hide. As many shocking revelations as we have made on this blog, it is sobering to think that we probably know only a small percentage of the rot which has gone on. This is because we were never in…
There have been many reports that DIKNAS is now tightening the screws on National Plus and International Schools too. Perhaps Indonesia will finally lose the services of degree-less Jakarta old hands like Matthew France, a former Luke Preece stooge who has been working without a degree at Penabur International School in Kelapa Gading since the…
Over the past few weeks TBI has been advertising for staff for TBI Bali, which presumably will open sometime later this year. Here is a link to the job in case you want to be the Office Supervisor there! Why they can’t get one of their own staff to do the job is a bit…
On Monday we showed how by May Dave’s ESL Cafe user “Sun Shan” had become disillusioned with TBI, complaining of its pretentiousness, its typo-ridden letters and its poor diligence in corresponding with people on the CELTA course. According to this CELTA candidate, all other candidates for the TBI CELTA course had complained of TBI’s errors…
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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