In recent days we have had confirmation of the shocking reports that not only has TBI Sudirman gone out of business, but TBI (The British Institute) has been forced to abandon its own Head Office on Level Four of the Sequis Centre. They used to be so proud of that office, right in the financial…
Throughout 2014 the Rumah Bahasa story has provided an interesting counterpoint to the story of TBI. Before a brave teacher came forward and exposed the illegal shenanigans at Rumah Bahasa, this blog had focused exclusively on TBI (The British Institute), a school with its own sorry history of illegal and immoral behavior, all of it…
Nowadays, there can’t be many people in the Jakarta TEFL industry who haven’t heard the whispers about TBI Bekasi, the school which has earned itself the dubious honor of being TBI’s most disreputable franchise school. During 2012 and 2013 we spoke with no less than 5 previous expat teachers who had worked for Binsar, the…
Just to mix it up a little, with this post I want to move away from the focus on TBI’s low wages and demoted managers (such as Anita Pasaribu). Instead, I’d like to address a specific (and rather odd) allegation that has been by our detractors. This is the claim that the exposure of TBI as…
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…
Originally posted on tbilanguageschool:
KOTA BOGOR Dua Guru WNA Ilegal Dideportasi Kamis, 7 Juni 2007 BOGOR (Suara Karya): Dua warga negara asing (WNA) ditangkap aparat Imigrasi Bogor usai mengajar di The British Institut (TBI) di Ruko Blok K-L, Jalan Pajajaran No 88, Kelurahan Bantarjati, Kecamatan Bogor Utara, Kota Bogor, Rabu (6/5). Mereka adalah Crawley D*******…
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…
Indonesian long-termers will know that there have never been as many American teachers in Indonesia as Brits or Australians. In this article I’d like to suggest a likely cause for the phenomenon: student debts amongst the “Millennial” generation in the United States. Put simply, American students born in the 1980s and 1990s have started life…
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