Nowadays, there can’t be many people in the Jakarta TEFL industry who haven’t heard the whispers about TBI Bekasi, the school which has earned itself the dubious honor of being TBI’s most disreputable franchise school. During 2012 and 2013 we spoke with no less than 5 previous expat teachers who had worked for Binsar, the…
In recent years TBI has committed many grave offences to the English teachers of Bandung. Worst of all, of course, was forcing out veteran manager and teacher Ratna so that Luke Preece’s unpopular crony, Scott Martin, could become school manager at TBI Jalan Riau without an expertise or knowledge at all: no degree in any…
Both EF and Wall Street are very open and transparent about student numbers while TBI has long been secretive about them. There is a long history to this point. Back in 2009 when I first became Academic Team Leader at TBI Kuningan I was ordered by Chris Needham (the then school manager) never to tell student…
Wall Street English (WSE) is one of the world’s most successful private English language schools and currently operates in 28 countries with over 460 centers. With just 6 years in business in Jakarta, WSE’s success has been phenomenal – now over 8,000 students. http://www.eslcafe.com/joblist/index.cgi?read=28905 8000 divided by 6 = 1333 students per school. In 2012…
Where on earth did you source these perfectly rounded numbers from? The TBI defenders crew are back with silly, distracting troll comments in the box. The above is one of the more sensible examples, though it is still dumb. Are they really so stupid as to think that we are saying there are exactly 600 students…
One of the more sensible questions we have been asked by our critics is, “Why hasn’t TBI gone bankrupt if it is as bad as you say?” That is not only a good question, it is also a complex one, but we will attempt to answer it today in the broader context of our investigation…
Around 2009 Wall Street came to Kelapa Gading. It did it with the seriousness of intent and full wallet which TBI, a company which still think it’s the late 1990s, has never managed on any of its ventures. When I managed TBI Kelapa Gading I was awarded a piddling marketing budget of only Rp 3…
Just a brief post this afternoon. We just wanted to comment on the fact that Wall Street has opened 2 more branches in Greater Jakarta in the past twelve months. One is called Kota Kasablanca and the other is called Alam Sutera, which is out in the booming West Jakarta area it seems. (TBI Serpong won’t be…
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