School districts throughout the nation are beginning to heed calls to give students and teachers a day off in observance of the Eid al Fitr, a major Islamic holiday held at the end of Ramadan.
Institutions such as Al-Azhar University have traditionally been regarded as the standard model for Islamic higher education. Indonesia’s new international Islamic university wants to change that.
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Slated for operations in 2020, Indonesia’s new international Islamic university aims to become a ‘middle ground’ Islamic institution through leveraging Indonesia’s unique culture of moderate Islam.
David Cameron wants religious education to be inspected.
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In Senegal, schoolteachers who are personally religious must work in a secular space that marginalises religious discourse and knowledge. They have several ways of subverting the system.
Adderley Primary School in Birmingham has been at the centre of the Trojan Horse row.
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The Trojan Horse extremism affair that hit a group of Birmingham schools this summer and the ongoing inquiries into it, have raised suspicions among Muslim parents, teachers, and pupils in the UK. News…
There are now around half a million Muslim Australians, who are sometimes blamed for the actions of a tiny minority.
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Since Australians woke to the news of yesterday morning’s counter-terrorism raids in Sydney, Brisbane and Logan, talkback radio and the TV news have filled with talk of “home-grown terrorism” and “enemies…
Nansen Primary School, one of those put in special measures by Ofsted.
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If a week is a long time in politics, then the school summer holidays must have seemed like a lifetime the for governors, teachers, pupils and staff at the 21 schools at the centre of the Trojan Horse…
Compulsory flag-waving for Team GB?
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The controversy over the Trojan Horse allegations of “extremism” at a number of Birmingham schools has provoked much discussion concerning the need to teach and assert British values to children. There…
Public attacks. May and Gove have denied a rift.
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Allegations of an “Islamist” plot to infiltrate and take over schools in Birmingham at the centre of Operation Trojan Horse are looking increasingly thin. But they have caused a very public row between…
Regents Park Community School and Nursery in Birmingham is part of the investigation.
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It is believed that at least 25 schools in Birmingham are now being investigated in response to allegations of what the media and city council are routinely describing as “takeover” bids by “hardline Muslims…
Al-Madina free school governor Abdullah Shahjan was told his school was disfunctional.
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The closure of the secondary section of the Al-Madinah free school in Derby will be celebrated by those who oppose free schools and what are euphemistically labelled “faith” schools. Whatever the stated…