In recent months, all three TBI schools in Surabaya have closed. Apparently TBI is now such a toxic brand that it can’t even stay in business in Indonesia’s second biggest city. However, this has been coming for a long time. Our informant has told us that the former owners of TBI Darmokali were in open…
It has been a few months since I last updated this blog. Mostly I feel content these days to leave the so-called ‘British Institute’ to its slow, agonizing demise. Its glory days now a decade behind it, it is the home of constant promos and discounts in which they try and win back lost love…
TBI is a stagnant company everywhere, but its woes are clearly at their most severe in Jakarta. Unable to compete in the cut-throat, Jakarta market, TBI has gone from loss to loss in the capital. At the end of 2016, its most prestigious former property TBI Sudirman closed: sadly, TBI could no longer afford the…
We recently visited the TBI website to look at the latest version. We did not expect to be impressed but the rubbish they are now offering was gob-smackingly bad even by their own rock bottom standards. Look at it yourself and you will see pathetic testimonials from teachers with entry-level qualifications (you can lead academic…
Here are some photos of the empty premises of the former TBI Kuningan. TBI has now been forced to abandon its flagship school in Jakarta, hot on the heels of having to close TBI Sudirman because it couldn’t afford the rent there. They really are going through a rough patch, as we have been telling…
In the past few days, a teacher who TBI Malang tried to recruit has come on Dave’s ESL Cafe and alleged that Scott Martin has told him that Indonesian law is ”a grey area” with regards to employing teachers on business consultant visas. In other words, Martin has been caught red-handed lying to potential teachers…
Another week, another case of rampant age discrimination at TBI: the so-called British Institute, which is really about as British as a plateful of oily nasi goreng from a Jakarta street stall. We recently reported, based on a series of online job ads, that TBI is no longer accepting managers who aren’t youthful. The maximum…
When this blog started in 2012, TBI was caught completely by surprise. After years of covering up abuses at TBI Bekasi, not to mention the embezzlement of over Rp2 billion at TBI Dago when Luke Preece was manager there, the TBI authorities had a lot of practice at keeping the lid on their dirty secrets. They…
Head Office have no idea what makes a good manager. How could they? Mariam and Ashley were both unsuccessful managers themselves. When Mariam was manager of TBI Sudirman, the school was a loss-making failure. She had no organisational skills and the schedule was a shambles. Unbelievably, she was promoted from that dismal start to become…
This is just a little post which will help explain how we discovered that Luke was heavily protected by Mariam and the other USG bigwigs. The key information comes from Atika, who knows how bad they all are, but has decided to lie down with these dogs for the sake of her career. According to…
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