People wanting a promising career in the TEFL industry in Indonesia would be well-advised to give TBI’s failing business model a miss and go straight to the “premium end” market leader- Wall Street Indonesia. This has been the case for several years now with respect to qualified teachers (TBI has been reduced to relying on…
WALL STREET ENGLISH Wall Street English is a part of Pearson, a well-known company whose core business is education, business information, and publishing. Pearson is currently listed on the New York and London stock-exchange. The first Wall Street English center was opened in Ratu Plaza in 2007. Until now, Wall Street English has six centers spread all over Jakarta; in Ratu Plaza, La…
We have long argued that TBI’s insistence on axing expats and replacing them with “low cost” Indonesians was a greedy, short-sighted policy that was placing TBI’s reputation at risk. The most spectacular example yet is TBI Kelapa Gading’s latest manager (my how TBI burns through managers, with Head Office scapegoating them for their own mind-blowing…
Rumah Bahasa adalah sekolahan bahasa tapi sayangnya Bahasa Inggrisnya tidak tepat. Lihatlah iklan ini dan anda bisa lihat banyak kata yang salah. Contoh RB menulis: “We have so many language“. Ini salah. Bahasa Inggrisnya yang tepat adalah: “We have so many languages.” Terus mereka menulis: “We have baby class, kids class, teenager class, and adult…
In recent days Rumah Bahasa have gone on the offensive in an attempt to silence all dissent and hush-up the scandal about their school. (We use the word “school” loosely, as the word “school” usually suggests the presence of qualified teachers and there are allegedly none at Rumah Bahasa.) To people who have observed TBI’s…
November was a very busy month at this blog, with the blog twice reaching over 250 views in a single day. The main reason for the increased traffic to this blog is our decision to report on the illegal goings on at Rumah Bahasa Kelapa Gading (Lotte Mart). For the past couple of months we…
For this, the fourth interview probing into the tactics and methods of the TBI Mafia, we interview SW, the former manager of TBI Kelapa Gading. He has interviewed all of the TBI Bekasi victims as well as several former victims of Luke Preece. In this part he discusses the similarities between Luke Preece and Chicken…
Direct English is the Linguaphone Group’s world-renowned English language program for adults, already delivered to thousands of students across Asia, Europe and the Middle East through a network of franchise partners. Ms Eni Suhartini, Director of PT. Gitajaya Sejahtera will oversee the launch of Direct English in Malang which will be the first Direct English…
Just a brief post today as I have a lot of exams to mark. The main thing about TBI to note of late is their increasing desperation in the area of recruitment. There are now a number of indicators that Luke Preece’s plan to “get by” using illegal labour has hit the rocks badly and…
You have devoted a lot of energy to blogging about TBI Bekasi. Why does this topic interest you? Over time my view on this has changed. At first when I learned about Binsar I thought, “Well, this is really serious, but it’s a different story to what happened to you and I. What these teachers…
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