News24white.png Uganda court bans Gates-backed schools News24, Nairobi, 4 November 2016 Uganda's High Court on Friday ordered the closure of a chain of low-cost private schools backed by Microsoft and Facebook founders Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. A judge ruled that the 63 Bridge International Academies provided unsanitary learning conditions and had not been properly licensed. The ruling is a blow to Bridge International which has expanded rapidly since its inception in 2008 offering cheap, standardised, technology-driven education in developing countries in Africa and Asia. Under the Bridge International model teachers read scripted lessons word-for-word from a tablet computer that also records student attendance and assessments. Gates' and Zuckerberg's foundations are among the company's high-profile backers. But Bridge International has courted controversy with Liberian teachers threatening to strike earlier this year over government plans to outsource all primary education to the private US-owned company. In Uganda, government inspectors said children were being taught in sub-standard facilities and unsanitary conditions. Bridge International, which claims to have 12 000 students in Uganda, said it would challenge the High Court ruling. "We are extremely disappointed for our pupils and disagree with this ruling," said liaison officer Godwin Matsiko. From: http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/uganda-court-bans-gates-backed-schools-201 61104-15 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14391 (20161104) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/001e01d236de%249f2c83e0%24dd858ba0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
