More TBI schools have bitten the dust. After the defection of TBI Medan, other TBI franchise schools have closed their doors. After 13 dreadful years of graft and crime-ridden business, the scandalously bad TBI Bekasi has now gone out of business. It joins the long list of closed TBI schools which includes TBI Semarang, TBI…
It has been a few months since I last updated this blog. Mostly I feel content these days to leave the so-called ‘British Institute’ to its slow, agonizing demise. Its glory days now a decade behind it, it is the home of constant promos and discounts in which they try and win back lost love…
Sometimes we still get emails demanding where our ‘bukti’ (evidence) is that TBI is a useless company. This is very strange to us. In our last post we showed a photo of TBI Kelapa Gading in which children were studying in a small, cramped room. We asked why TBI had no posters or pictures on…
One of the more bizarre recent tweets from TBI Kelapa Gading was one in which they proudly displayed their classroom facilities with the following quote: Hi TBuddies! Ini lho suasana kelas dan pembelajaran di TBI Kelapa Gading, khususnya program Children. This translates loosely as, “Hi TBuddies! This is the classroom environment at the TBI Kelapa…
We recently made the mistake of looking at the TBI Kelapa Gading twitter account. Oh boy, there are so many grammar and spelling mistakes on that thing. They truly are an embarrassment to the name of English language education. They don’t know the difference between “quiet” and “quite”, for example. These people have such low-quality…
A few months ago we were contacted at this blog by the ‘new’ owners of TBI Bekasi (Ruko Sun City) who asked us to contact them about our allegations of fraud, corruption and teacher abuse. They provided us with an email account. We tried to contact them but the email address was no longer in…
For almost three years now we have been reporting on a disturbing phenomenon that has been sweeping Jakarta: the world of the so-called ‘polyglot’ or ‘multi-bahasa/language’ schools. Since 2012 at least, these schools have been attracting students (or more to the point, victims) with the promise that they can study at Rumah Bahasa, Global Language…
During the boom decade of 2000-2010, the larger emerging markets were growing at vastly faster rates than developed economies, so it seemed that some of them would rapidly achieve ‘middle income’ status. In particular, it appeared that the BRICS grouping was going to attain a dominant role in the world economy. However, a few years…
With the world’s mainstream media increasingly focused on the American election, especially the Battle of the Right-Wing Con Artists, Trump, Cruz and Rubio, you could be excused for not noticing that the world is still in the midst of an emerging markets crisis, with at least 29 nations affected. Yet for those willing to search…
Today we have received notice that International Language Centre MOI (Mall of Indonesia) is now closed. Mampus. Bankrupt. Belly up. All day we have been receiving Google searches about the closure / bankruptcy / fraud of ILC MOI. We also received a comment informing us that the school is now closed without giving notice to…
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