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Is private education the answer to Uganda’s ailing public schools?

By Patience AtuhaireBBC Africa, Kampala 26 October 2016 From the sectionAfrica Share Image captionBridge international calls itself the world’s largest education innovation company Uganda’s public education system is reeling from absent teachers, poor facilities and high dropout rates. Despite these challenges the country’s ministry of education is pushing to close a chain of low-cost private…

Child soldiers should be students…

Child Soldiers Ten countries were using child soldiers in 2013 in government military operations, compared to seven in the 2012. These ten are the Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Myanmar, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. How does child soldier recruitment act as a barrier to enrollment and participation? Here are some facts about Child…

USA STUDENTS SHOW DOCUMENTARY AT UGANDAN FILM FESTIVAL

http://abc7chicago.com/video/embed/?pid=1654597 By Janet Davies Tuesday, December 13, 2016 CHICAGO (WLS) — Some students from Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood are traveling to Uganda to show a documentary they made that helped save their school from being closed down by the city. Terrance Dantzler and Hayah Rasul helped create “Saving Barbara Sizemore,” an award-winning indie documentary not…

An unforgettable visit to Acholiland

This is a repost of a beautiful journal entry by Joshua Dysart.com.  He traveled to Uganda shortly after the LRA/UPDF war ended in 2006.  It clearly captures the suffering and impoverished people and their living conditions, desolate classrooms, and desperation for work and survival.  In 2017 they are still struggling with the same issues.  They’ve been trying to rebuild and reestablish their…

Tackling Uganda’s lack of school places

By Sean Coughlan    BBC News education correspondent 8 January 2014 From the section  Business Image copyright PEAS Only a quarter of Uganda’s young population have secondary school places It’s always good to have your preconceptions punctured. Uganda, like many sub-Saharan African countries, faces major challenges to build up its education system. At the most fundamental level it has to provide…

On October 1, 2016 – Barack Hussein Obama will most likely hand over the Internet to the United Nations.  The goal of the U.N. is the coming One World Government. They will not tolerate oppos… Source: This May Be Goodbye From Me to You: I Want to Leave You With This

Schools in Uganda Are Getting Bulldozed So Foreign Developers Can Build Store

With dozens of campuses destroyed, the government has launched an investigation into shady-seeming land grabs by real estate investors.Schools in Uganda Are Getting Bulldozed So Foreign Developers Can Build Stores AUG 19, 2015 Culture and education editor Liz Dwyer has written about race, parenting, and social justice for several national publications. She was previously education editor at Good.…