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Teachers: stop funds for shack schools
World Bank urged to burn its Bridges

TEACHERS urged the World Bank yesterday to stop funding a chain of private-sector tin shack schools across Africa.

Unions led by global federations Education International (EI) and Public Services International marched on the bank’s Washington headquarters to demand that it stop giving loans to Bridge International Academies (BIA).

Participants included the Uganda National Teachers’ Union and Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) — both at the forefront of the fight against BIA — along with Britain’s NUT and NASUWT teaching trade unions.

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