Yesterday I wrote that TBI Kelapa Gading was having a ‘Custom Party’- they really meant a costume party, of course- which showed that Anita Pasaribu was, as we warned, a completely unsuitable person to be the school manager of an English school. It also shows the incompetence of TBI’s wretched Head Office. I mean shouldn’t…
News and Events TBI 30th Anniversary Party posted on Thursday 20th of February 2014 Let’s Celebrate TBI’s Birthdays Custom Party on Wednesday 26th February 2014 at 15:30 pm Found this latest piece of “English” on the TBI Kelapa Gading website a few days ago. What exactly is a “custom” party? We warned people a little while…
In part of 1 of this series we suggested that TBI has continually changed the team line about the allegations made on this blog. In phase 1 they flat-out denied that they were employing loads of teachers on VKU (business consultant) visas and launched a vicious smear campaign of ad hominem attacks on the authors…
An interesting story appeared in the Jakarta Post a couple of days ago. Let me offer a passage from the article before I make a few comments. Thousands of taxi drivers in Batam, Riau Islands, went on strike on Tuesday and rallied at the municipal office, blocking a number of roads. The drivers — grouped…
Until now we have focused on a single branch of Rumah Bahasa, the one in Kelapa Gading, as this one we received insider information about. But in recent days it has become increasingly clear that the Horas family is involved at other branches too. It has also become clear that these schools are all the…
More and more angry customers are coming forward and telling us that they were lied to and ripped off by Rumah Bahsa. We have heard that some have started to press Lotte Mart Mall (where the schools are located) for justice. With some customers ripped off by as much as 6 million rupiah for courses…
We have now been approached by a customer from Rumah Bahasa Bintaro who has claimed that Rumah Bahasa Bintaro is also an unethical business. Kami sudah mendengar tuntutan dari pembeli Rumah Bahasa Bintaro bahwa sekolah ini tidak bermoral dan jujur. The customer paid money for a course in early January and was told it was about…
One of the questions the VKU visa scams raise is this: Was TBI always this illegal or is it a comparatively recent development? The short answer is that it has declined rapidly in terms of ethics in recent years, and it mostly comes down to the corrupting influence of Aussie con-man, Luke Preece. The best way…
One of the main ways to see that TBI was always governed by pathological liars is to notice the way that they have changed their story so often. They are now onto their “third version of the truth” about their illegal school chain. In this article we will walk you through the various versions of…
One of the many lessons we have learnt from blogging about corruption in the TEFL industry is the facility that liars and scammers have in wiggling out of responsibility. But perhaps this ought not to have surprised us at all. After all, imagine you are a dishonest person who doesn’t want to play by the…
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