Tomorrow we will begin a three-part series on the character of Binsar Simorangkir, including his reputation for storing the FB IDs of students, including very young girls and boys, in his mobile phone. You will recall that multiple sources have told us that Binsar was indeed arrested over allegations of sexual interference with a student…
To Binsar Simorangkir, You are a disgusting, despicable man. I befriended you, your wife and your children and became very close with you and you just used me and took advantage of me and made my life hell. You threatened me, you lied to me and you betrayed me. You still call yourself…
The ability to make accurate predictions is important in the sciences as a means of testing different theories. The people who believed in a ‘Flat Earth’ were proven wrong when Magellan circumnavigated the globe. The same applies in other fields. Keynesian economists seem to have had a better time of it in the current…
The Indonesian teachers at TBI Bekasi are of a high standard both with qualifications andexperience. The teachers have to take a written test and then an observation. On speakingto the teachers they say that the written test is a fairly unusual request as most schoolsdon’t require an in-house test. Teachers then work part-time with schedules…
I was teaching Business English the other day to a Pre-Intermediate class and I came across a reading passage on ‘The Quality Circle’. This is a common term which is thrown around in business books these days and no doubt it is already last decade’s news on the corporate training circuit. But like most of…
Towards the end of last year ‘Michelle’ loved to crow that he had ‘no new material’ and were ‘getting very boring and repetitive’. She also got her stooge Minerva to pester us with smses and Facebook comments complaining about the ‘boring repetetiveness of it all’. It was ridiculously transparent of course. Once you know not…
Quality of Resources and Facilities Overall I would say the quality of the EF courses are better for children. EF has ‘practise &play’ an integrated computer learning system where every unit the kids go down to thecomputer room and play language games. In the classroom every class has a computerwhere listening materials from the book…
Take a look again at the TBI Bekasi income sheet and you will see that including Rp 257.000.000 of ‘non-TBI courses’ on a TBI income sheet is not the only piece of roguery which Binsar is up to. Michelle hinted absurdly that this may not be illegal because we don’t have the franchise agreement! Well…
Yesterday we argued that TBI had been playing a confidence trick on Indonesia by claiming to be a ‘premium language school’ when it really offered nothing special that EF wasn’t offering except for slightly better paid Native Speakers (and these haven’t received a decent pay rise in half a decade). Now Michelle didn’t understand the…
TBI Bekasi doesn’t have a member of staff responsible for marketing. This is because Binsar will not invest the necessary money. The former marketing officer for EF called me one day as she knew I was working at TBI. She said that she was no long working at EF and was looking for another job.…
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