Congratulations to Tanaya, a student of Honolulu class at TBI Bali. You’ve won a laptop from us on April promotion. To those who have yet to study at TBI, come and sign up for your class at the next promotion. We still have a loads of special discount and special prizes only for you. This…
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…
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…
Rent-seeking is one of the more interesting economic concepts to have emerged from the academic literature since the 1960s, but it is still a rather neglected concept in the mainstream media. Perhaps this is because the term can be rather confusing at first glance; it has nothing to do with renting or rentals in the…
The first thing to establish here is that TBI did lose the fight for Jakarta. Self-evident as it has been to us for a long time, you certainly won’t hear the authorities at TBI admitting it. Even as competitors have stolen massive chunks of market share from them, the TBI ostriches have gone on sticking their heads…
Between 2009 and 2012 The British Institute, a formerly well-regarded language school in Indonesia, was taken over by a small group of people who had aided each other in embezzlement, rigging appointments in favour of their cronies and sex partners, and running visa scams where they employed completely unqualified foreigners as “English teachers” by putting…
I knew RD personally- he was a very good man, very family oriented and a professional in his field. I know when he was in TBI Bogor he hired some great teachers and removed some not so good ones. The student numbers were constantly rising and his fellow teachers praised him a lot for his…
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