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…
“Within a year, it went bankrupt and it has ruined the lives of the owner and his family members. The school has closed and more will follow (see next update).” That sentence was featured in our most recent article about TBI from a few weeks back. So why did we report that ‘the school has…
This blog has always been based on a simple proposition: TBI (The British Institute) is a fraudulent, delusional and rapidly declining company which is the sick man of the Indonesian TEFL industry. Over the past several years we have attempted to document in its decline by compiling and cross-checking all the information we have accrued…
We haven’t focussed on TBI Surabaya because we never heard bad reports about it. Unlike most TBI franchise schools, it made a profit (a near miracle in TBI’s broken franchise system) and it even had computers from the 21st century. This contrasted with deadbeat schools like TBI Bekasi and TBI Medan which few people in…
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