New Vision 3.png Bridge schools close, over 1000 pupils affected Farooq Kasule, New Vision, Kampala, Uganda, 7 November 2016 Abdallah Mutazindwa, the director of education standards, told New Vision on Sunday that schools would remain closed as earlier directed by the education ministry, until they certify all the required operating standards as set by the education ministry. "We are going to close all its schools in the country because we gave them time to address the issues we highlighted in our inspection reports, but they refused to listen to us," Mutazindwa said. Bridge School in Kampala, 5 November 2016.jpg Without naming names, he warned that more substandard schools, which do not meet the education ministry requirement would be closed. "We started with Bridge because it has been expanding its campuses day by day, yet we had advised them to first focus on the already existing schools and they ignored the advice," Mutazindwa said. Deep US pockets threaten more lawfare The Bridge chain of low-cost private schools is backed by Microsoft and Facebook founders Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. However, Dawn Mulondo, the Bridge's programme manager for East Africa, urged the parents not to panic, saying the schools will remain open. He was addressing parents at Bridge campus in Nsumbi in Nansana Municipality on Saturday. "I want to assure you that we have already instructed our lawyers to seek a second remedy from the appellant court and our schools will remain open." From: http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1439499/future-bridge-schools-han gs-balance __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14401 (20161107) __________ 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/001001d238cd%24f22d4570%24d687d050%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
