School "prayer ban"

ITV News, 'Britain's strictest school' facing High Court challenge from Muslim pupil over ‘prayer ban’, 17 Jan 2024 "Michaela Community School in Brent, north London, introduced a policy in March 2023 "banning prayer rituals"."

Coastal Communities in Wales

Sanjana Idnani, BBC News, Ramadan: Coastal communities help Muslims celebrate 1 Apr 2023, "Cultural awareness of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan is growing in coastal communities, Muslim families have said."

History on the Curriculum

Nation Cymru, Wales to become first UK nation to make Black, Asian and ethnic history mandatory on school curriculum "Subject to final sign-off by the Senedd next month, the Welsh Government has added learning about the diversity of communities, in particular the stories of Black, Asian and minority ethnic people, into the new Curriculum for Wales guidance."

Teaching in Wales

Proud teacher moment! My children on Sky News, talking about how children in Wales will be taught about racism and the contributions of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities. @laurabundock @wgmin_education @charwilliamsOBE @BameedWales pic.twitter.com/Du2RempLXX

— Mrs Aziz (@MSPSMrsAziz) May 30, 2021

LGBT Protests Update

BREAKING: A judge has permanently banned anti-LGBT equality teaching protests from taking place outside a primary school in Birmingham.

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— Sky News (@SkyNews) November 26, 2019

Schoolboy Payout

Mail Online, Schoolboy, 11, wins £3,500 payout after teachers at east London school wrongly accused him of wearing T-shirt supporting ISIS into class "The unnamed boy turned up at a school in Tower Hamlets, east London, when he was eight years of age wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan: 'I want to be like Abu Bakr al-Siddique'.
"Abu Bakr al-Siddique is a prominent figure in Islam born in the year 583 who would later become the father-in-law of the prophet Muhammad, who married his daughter."

School pupils to be taught about relationships

BBC News, School pupils to be taught about relationships "Primary and secondary pupils in England will learn about relationships, keeping safe online and looking after their mental health as part of compulsory lessons from September next year."

Luton school responds to Ofsted

BBC News, Luton Islamic school complains over critical Ofsted report, 19 Jan 2018 "Governors at an Islamic school have lodged a complaint over a highly critical report.
"Ofsted found pupils at the independent Olive Tree Primary School in Luton had to ask for toilet paper and wash their cutlery in toilet sinks."

Schools urged to help tackle Islamophobia

Bethan Lewis, BBC News, Schools urged to help tackle Islamophobia "Young Muslims in Wales say they have been frequently stared at in public, called "terrorists" at school and been told by strangers to take off headscarves."

Islamic school's gender segregation is unlawful, court of appeal rules

Guardian, Islamic school's gender segregation is unlawful, court of appeal rules "Schools in Britain will no longer be able to substantially segregate boys and girls, after the court of appeal ruled that a co-educational faith school in Birmingham had caused unlawful discrimination by separating the two sexes."

Muslim schools knock grammars off top spot as league table of country’s best schools is published

The Sun, Muslim schools knock grammars off top spot as league table of country’s best schools is published, 19 Jan 2017 "The Muslim girls’ and boys’ schools in Blackburn, Lancashire, run by the Tauheedul Education Trust, beat off competition from London grammars to top the annual school performance tables coming first and third."

Birmingham schools

Guardian, Michael Gove calls for further schools investigations after Trojan Horse affair, 21 May 2014 also see BBC News, Super-heads approached to run Birmingham schools

Park View Academy

Daily Mail, Children at secondary school 'infiltrated by Muslim extremists' listened to assembly praising Al-Qaeda leader, say teachers "Two members of staff at Park View Academy claimed a senior colleague had endorsed the teachings of the now dead American-born leader of Al-Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula, and that a viewpoint politically sympathetic to the terrorist group had been promoted in an assembly." Allegations and denials.

Newham school dispute

BBC News, Muslim school dispute with Newham over 'inclusivity', 25 Jan 2012 film report

'Creationism Attack Under UK Muslim Fire'

OnIslam, Creationism Attack Under UK Muslim Fire , 9 Oct 2011

"Muslim groups in Britain have sharply criticized an atheist professor who attacked Muslim faith schools for teaching creationsim for their students."

Opinion piece on education

Ed West, Telegraph blogs, Don't blame Muslim schools for Britain's social problems, 23 Nov 2010 (+ usual informed range of comments) "Compare these schools to some of Britain’s highly brilliant Muslim schools, such as Blackburn’s Tauheedul Islam Girls High School, an astonishing success story that takes girls from some of the poorest wards in the country and gets them to outperform the most privileged.

"The reason for their success is probably that, unlike many local secular comprehensives, they are not highly expensive and inefficient child-minding services for instructing delinquent adolescents about equality and diversity, but traditional educational establishments with an old-fashioned monotheistic ethos that value the three Rs. In other words, what used to be called “British values”."