It is now time for this blog and its contributors to chalk up another victory for justice. We can now confirm that it has now been over three months since control of TBI passed from Mariam’s grasp. According to her ego-stroking Linked-In account, her time as TBI Director has ended and she is now Director…
On Nov 30, 2012, at 8:32 AM, Hery Sofiyandy wrote:Hi *******,I am Hery from franchise dept. please let me know your phone number to discuss about your concernsKind Regards,Hery Sofiyandi
Having established in Part 1. that there is no way the power-hungry, prestige-obsessed Preece would have given up control of 11 out of 16 TBI schools voluntarily, we demonstrated that at the end of 2012 Luke Preece was clearly forced to give up his Franchise School dominion. In short, Luke Preece was pushed out of…
It was 2009 when TBI first started to unravel in a noticeable way. It was then that Chris Needham presided over all three Jakarta Group Schools, appointed by the clueless Platts. School numbers were at rock bottom in two out of three schools but Needham thought that having a hundred students enrolled Fatmawati was such…
The facts of the case are clear: at the end of 2012 Luke Preece was replaced as Head of Franchise by an Indonesian by the name of Pak Hery. The delicious irony of the situation had not been lost on the authors of this blog. The man who back stabbed so many other expat managers,…
The rot spreads far and wide at TBI, doesn’t it? One of the areas in which it is most substandard is the timely delivery of promises. We heard yesterday how Jodi Sheik turned up for the annual whitewash- oh sorry, we mean audit- in April 2012 and somehow found things to be ok at TBI…
Teaching Standards I am aware that on my personal site I have written about the courses that I have taught at TBI Bekasi. I do stand by my testimonial there as it relates to courses taught. The standard of teaching at TBI Bekasi is quite high. The local Indonesian teachers are well-qualified and experienced and…
Teacher A mentioned previously that Binsar is rumoured to practise black magic and several people do believe that quite strongly. He says he’s a Christian but he doesn’t go to church instead he drops his children at the church and waits outside. I wonder why? What’s he got to hide from God? Kind of reminds…
Over the past month we have been focussed so much on the shockingly bad reports coming out of TBI Bekasi that I have not offered anything about TBI Kelapa Gading in 2012. In parts 1-4 of this series, which I now resume, we started to examine how Nunu Pratama managed to lose 35-40% of all…
Binsar is a Batak Indonesian. Part of the culture is to be very up-front, but even still he is incredibly up front even for a Batak. I think he just says whatever he thinks so he doesn’t control what he says. That’s partly why he’s told me things about Ted’s lack of documents, the other…
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