Faith schools that may be promoting extremist ideas must be closely monitored – and should certainly not receive public funds
Any institution that promotes segregation and openly prescribes members of society to lead separate lives deserves no sympathy and most definitely not public support in the form of tax money. Certainly not in a secular modern [...]
Posts on ‘November 26th, 2009’
Schools of incendiary thought
Sneyd School college plan
A new college catering for up to 600 young people could be created on the site of a doomed Walsall school within two years, it has been revealed.
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Defiant Ofsted rejects mounting criticism of its performance
The children’s services watchdog Ofsted came out fighting yesterday as it faced growing criticism of its inspection regime by both social services and education executives.
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PM denies ‘extremist’ fund claims
Gordon Brown denies claims that money from an “anti-extremist” fund was given to two schools with alleged links to Islamic extremists.
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Schools urged to save £750m costs
The schools secretary says heads should install smart meters and get better deals on equipment to safeguard teaching jobs.
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Leading Article: Lessons to learn
London Metropolitan University’s governors must conclude from Sir David Melville’s report (see page 5) that they should have built in mechanisms to ensure they were properly informed. As it was, they didn’t know what was going on.
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How to keep the staff learning while they work
For primary school teacher Alex Vinton and the six and seven-year-olds in her class, Tuesdays usually follow the same pattern.
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Cameron claims ‘extremist’ schools given public money
Two private schools are at the centre of a bitter political clash after David Cameron, the Tory leader, alleged that the schools in Slough, Berkshire, and Tottenham in north London had received £113,000 of public money after being set up by an “extremist Islamist foundation”.
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Andrew Oswald: REF should stay out of the game
Something bad, sad and mad is happening in the UK. Bad for the quality of our democracy. Sad for freedom of thought. Mad for common sense. As is so common in life, it is driven by honest sentiments and by people who have stronger hearts than they have knowledgeable heads.
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Scandal of the students who never sat exams
London Metropolitan was not the only university to get the wrong end of the stick about the funding rule that required all students to sit an assessment at the end of each year, according to the report from Sir David Melville into the sorry saga of London Met’s financial and management crisis.
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