When we interviewed former teacher ‘LiPi’ for this blog several months ago she reported that Matthew France had asked her not to do overtime. What do you make of this fact? Clearly, he was trying to disrupt school operations. He knew that it was hard to staff the school on Saturdays due to the DIKNAS…
How did Matthew France come to work at Menara Kuningan? I was told that he wanted to transfer to Jakarta from Bandung by Chris Needham, who said he was passing on the information from Luke Preece. Do you remember when this happened? I estimate it was in the last quarter of 2009. Did Luke organize…
In the current (seventh) season of the American TV show ‘Dexter’, about a vigilante serial killer, there was an interesting scene which reminds us of Mariam Kartikatresni’s recent conduct at TBI Malang. In the scene a Russian Mafia boss places a gun in the hand of a man he wants dead and tells him to…
In this interview we discuss Luke Preece’s email from January 2011 in which he describes Mariam’s actions as ‘pretty dumb’ and criticizes her work ethic. This email dates from January 2011. What can you tell us about your relationship with Luke Preece at this point? Luke was always telling me he was my friend and…
What else did you discuss in your three hour telephone marathon with Mariezka, the former school manager of Depok? Apart from the way Luke Preece had rigged Scott Martins’s appointment at TBI Jawa (now TBI Riau) in April 2010, we discussed Ashley Platts. Good old Ashley! What did Mariezka have to say about Ashley Platts?…
In this, the final part of our exposition of the end of expat school managers at TBI, we ask what it means for the future of the company and for TBI expat teachers. The most important point is obvious: There are now no opportunities for advancement. Having interviewed about 20 different teachers while I was…
http://tbikuningan.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/ashley-platts-tbi-backstabber-in-chief-seany-w-part-1-of-2-3/ This blog post is from June 2012 and in it we showed how the cowardly Ashley Platts had tried to get the remaining Franchise school expat managers, myself and RD, fired in 2011. This charlatan, Ashley Platts, caused three expat teachers to leave in 2007 in disgust at his decision to appoint Chris Needham…
1 TBI Bogor Opened in 2002 with expat manager Last expat 2011 2 TBI Kelapa Gading Opened in late 2005 with expat manager Last expat 2012 3 TBI Surabaya Opened with expat owners Special case 4 TBI Cengkareng Opened in 2006 (?) Bankrupt 5 TBI Sun City (Bekasi) Opened in 2008…
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