Starting in February 2013, we bought you 13 serialized installments of a teacher’s report from inside TBI Bekasi. This was the first ever teacher to finsh a contract with the school’s owner-manager-terrorizer, Binsar Simorangkir. The fact that it took almost 5 years before one ex-pat managed to stay at TBI Bekasi Suncity for a full…
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…
I apologize for the small size of this document, but it was scanned from a piece of paper obtained within TBI Bekasi and sent as an email attachment to me. I then opened it in my email and took a ‘photo’ (screen dump) of the screen at that point, placed it in Paint and then…
Today we start a new series of reports from a TBI teacher. Over the next month we will be featuring two or three posts a week from this TBI Bekasi expat teacher, who has just resigned. In his well-written, lucid and perceptive report, he offers a stark portrait of a failing school and the man…
In this interview we touch base with one of the TBI Bekasi victims. We ask our informant what he makes of the latest massive fee increases at TBI Bekasi Sun City and much else besides. A student from TBI Bekasi SunCity informed us that there had been a sudden increase of around 33% in tuition…
In September 2012, we re-interviewed one of the four victims of Binsar (TBI Bekasi) who we have had contact with. He is a busy businessperson these days, who views TBI as the worst six months of his life. We asked him about the allegations being aired by Matthew, Colm and Luke that we are psychotics,…
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…
My time at TBI was very short. I was there for about 6 months. I was made Academic Director after only two months, but by my third month I didn’t want that position anymore as it entailed a lot more work than expected for nothing extra in return. The man I worked for was called Binsar Simorangkir. He didn’t ask for qualifications or references, but…
http://www.jobstreet.co.id/jobs/2012/10/default/40/648982.htm?fr=J November 13, 2012- advertising for Office Supervisors http://job-search.jobstreet.co.id/indonesia/company/the-british-institute-bekasi-jobs/ October 25, 2012- advertising for Office Supervisors http://lokrr.com/loker-dd852f1b11fbb26c-the-british-institute-office-supervisors-di-bekasi-07-agustus-2012.html August 7, 2012- advertising for Office Supervisors Now when I left KG we had had the same office staff for more than 2 years. What on Earth is going on in that school that they need to advertise…
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