The person at the centre of the controversy around Rumah Bahasa is a Chinese-Indonesian name of Frendy Horas. In recent days he has sent us a number of very long comments responding to allegations made on this blog by former teachers, staff and customers. We will be featuring a number of these in the coming…
In a recent article on the BBC, they discussed why tobacco companies like to use third parties to represent their case in the media, think-tanks and other public forums. The question was asked why tobacco companies try to get supposedly independent 3rd parties to represent their views rather than just sending one of their own…
If you asked the authorities at TBI, they would accuse us of engaging in a “vendetta” or “damaging the TBI name”. In fact, as we argued when we worked for them, they were damaging their own name every day with their laziness, broken promises and sloppy service. We told them again and again, “It isn’t enough…
Saya bekas guru part time di RB kelapa gading. Saya ngajar di sana pada tahun 2013. Di sana memang ada 1001 cerita yang gak enak buat murid maupun guru. Dulu saya pikir, gapapa saya kerja aja yang jujur dan serius, toh yang ngaco Frendy, bukan saya. Tapi lama-lama saya jadi malu kerja di sana, karena…
Wall Street English @WSE_Indonesia Mar 6 @gepenkkchan We will open in Bandung really soon FYI…Good luck on your studies! We were asked if we know when exactly WSE Bandung will be opening. We still don’t have an exact date, but about a week ago they tweeted that WSI is opening “really soon”. (See above.) This will be…
Corporate bullies may make spellbinding film leads for a couple of hours — think Michael Douglas’ Gordon Gekko or Leonardo Di Caprio’s Wolf of Wall Street—but in real life, they wreak havoc on workers and businesses. Miranda, a journalist for a Dutch news agency for 20 years, who did not want her last name used for…
The whole saga of Rumah Bahasa and Frendy Horas not only raises questions about the ethics of this particular business, but also DIKNAS as well. As time has gone on, more and more people have been asking how such a blatantly dishonest and disreputable business has been able to establish itself in Jakarta without facing…
Post Date 04-Mar-14 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;…
Wall Street English is coming soon to Bandung (according to various job ads and Facebook pages). It will be located in the new extension of Paris Von Java Mall, Kota Kembang’s most upmarket mall. At the same time they have been expanding into “second tier” Chinese cities. Having already conquered Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Tsingtao, Nanjing…
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…
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