Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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BRIDGE International Academies (BIA) is an education-for-profit business. It has plans to sell basic education services for 10 million schoolchildren in Africa and Asia by 2025. But in Uganda its ambitions has been checked by government intervention.
BIA expanded quickly in Uganda. It acquired 12,000 fee-generating students since February, 2015.
BIA has received $100m (£78.4m) in funding from — among others — the global edu-business Pearson, the World Bank, Britain’s government’s Department for International Development, the US government’s Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and US billionaires including Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates.
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