Dear Mr Udin I just wanted to inform you about recent events at TBI Kelapa Gading, briefly, from my perspective. I am sure Mr Pauwsan has briefed you about all this, but I have cc-ed him as a courtesy. Last week I decided to open a study centre (library) in the school and donated over…
Dear Owners ,Thank you for removing Firlana from the position. Having encouraged insubordination and rebellion from the staff, who had become extremely rude under his orders, it was a necessary measure. He plotted with the staff so they would not have to do more work and set a terrible example in terms of rudeness, lack…
Luke Preece, Colm and Matthew have repeatedly told people that the reason for this blog is sour grapes. They keep telling people that Cam and I were fired from TBI Kelapa Gading. It is true that there was a lot of conflict during the last couple of months due to Firlana Ismayadin organizing a stop-work…
In this part of the interview we start to investigate the damage which TBI nepotism did to TBI Kelapa Gading in 2009. How many school managers did TBI Kelapa Gading have in 2009? It had three. We have learned that TBI Serpong has had 4 school managers since 2009 and so has TBI Kelapa Gading.…
DOS to Pauwsan: Why are you smiling, Pak Pauwsan? Pauwsan to DOS: $23,000 revenue in a month and no tax, buddy!
You can see Pauwsan Sutanto at the first TBI Open Day I organized in February 2010. He is the bald-headed man wearing sandals at the far right of the photo. We will continue our investigation into Dr. Pauwsan Sutanto and his tax-shy ways in coming days…….
How did Helmy manage to lose 80 out of 200 students in six weeks? Through sheer foolishness and incompetence. Care to elaborate? Ashley Platts was pushing the line that the way to the future was Indonesian managers and teachers. If the best TBI could do in expats was Ashley Platt’s choice, Chris Needham, perhaps he…
Do you have anything you add to the debate around TBI Bekasi Sun City? Actually, there is one matter I would like to discuss. It relates to the student numbers. Between (*******) and (********) and I, along with the 4 Indonesian teachers- one of which was Binsar’s wife- we were teaching a large number of…
English teachers deported to UK, U.S. The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Jakarta | Thu, June 07 2007, 9:14 AM A- A A+ BOGOR: An American and a British citizen were deported to their home countries Wednesday after they were found to have violated their visa conditions. Bogor Immigration Office head Ibrahim Saleh said the two were caught…
We have been broadening our investigation into TBI (The British Institute) in recent days. Our goal is offer a more complete and representative portrait of what TBI has really been up to. It seems to us that the deeper we probe into this language school, the worse things look. Yesterday we printed some 2007 Dave’s…
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