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…
Congratulations to Tanaya, a student of Honolulu class at TBI Bali. You’ve won a laptop from us on April promotion. To those who have yet to study at TBI, come and sign up for your class at the next promotion. We still have a loads of special discount and special prizes only for you. This…
It is now November 2017, so we thought it was time for an update on the wackiest joker in the whole TBI deck: Australian sociopathic con man, Luke Preece. It is now five years since we started this blog. My how the years have flown! Five years later and this unqualified con-artist Luke Preece is…
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…
TBI is a stagnant company everywhere, but its woes are clearly at their most severe in Jakarta. Unable to compete in the cut-throat, Jakarta market, TBI has gone from loss to loss in the capital. At the end of 2016, its most prestigious former property TBI Sudirman closed: sadly, TBI could no longer afford the…
The leaks from TBI Jakarta continue to be almost unbelievably negative. The school closures, staff layoffs and pay cuts have taken their toll on morale. Even people who used to be tight-lipped and careful are now heard complaining openly about how badly managed and unjust TBI is. Indonesia is a hierarchical society. People are often…
One of the many problems with TBI is that it is a bubble of similarly deluded individuals. It always was. It is a place where people tell themselves that their extraordinarily low standards are actually the benchmark for the whole industry! Their delusions of grandeur are nowhere more in evidence than when it comes to…
We recently visited the TBI website to look at the latest version. We did not expect to be impressed but the rubbish they are now offering was gob-smackingly bad even by their own rock bottom standards. Look at it yourself and you will see pathetic testimonials from teachers with entry-level qualifications (you can lead academic…
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