Education:

• 2024: PhD student at the University of Bamberg, Faculty of Human Sciences and Education. Topic:Foreign Language Anxiety and Oral tasks in Bukavu secondary schools. Under supervision of Professor Dr. Barbara Drechsel and Professor Dr. Annette Scheunpflug.
• 2019-2022: M.A, University of Bamberg. International Master Programme on ‘Educational Quality for Developing Countries’.
• 2016-2018: B.A in Applied Pedagogy, English Language Teaching from the Bukavu Teacher Training College (ISP Bukavu/DRC).
• 2013-2015: Undergraduate in Applied Pedagogy, English Language Teaching from the Bukavu Teacher Training College (ISP Bukavu/DRC).
• 2007-2013 : Secondary education, section of General Pedagogy, at Tuendelee Secondary School, Bukavu/DRC.

Experience:

• Since 2022 : Communication Manager at Let Africa Live, a non-profit organization working with children and their families affected by nearly 30 years of systemic violence in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
• Since 2018 : Junior Lecturer in the section of Letters and Humanities at the Teacher Training College of Kaziba (ISP Kaziba/DRC).

Research Areas:

• Educational Science

• Educational Quality

 Conferences:

• International conference organized by the Global Pedagogical Network Joining in Reformation (GPENreformation) on “Seeds of Hope in Complex Times – Protestant Education in the Digital Age”, in November 2023, in Koforidua/Ghana
• 7th conference of the International Master Programme of Educational Quality in Developing Countries (IMPEQ) on "Quality education through resilience", in September 2022, in Huye/Rwanda
• Conference programme organized by the Conference of Heads of higher education and university institutions in South-Kivu on the "link to the LMD System", in September 2021, in Bukavu/DRC
• 6th conference of the International Master Programme of Educational Quality in Developing Countries (IMPEQ) on "Education for Peace", in February 2021, online
• 5th conference of the International Master Programme of Educational Quality in Developing Countries (IMPEQ) on "Education for Globalization" in February 2020, in Huye/Rwanda

Publications:

• Balume, B. M., Madirisha, J. K., & Kighuta, L. K. (2023). “Implementation of Individual learner support in Bukavu/DRC secondary school pupils in the DRC”. Butembo: ULPGL Butembo.
• Balume, B. M., Madirisha, J. K., & Kighuta, L. K. (2023). “Le rôle de la communication dans la qualité des écoles maternelles de la ville de Butembo, RDC”. International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, 40(1), 303-309.
• Ntanga, F. M., Mashongole, I. N., Bakenga, E. B., & Balume, B. M. (2021). “Meaning deviation through a mispronunciation of some words during communicative practices in Bukavu Swahili”. International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, 34(3), 657-668.