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The Trojan Horse scandal could be repeated in Birmingham, the chief inspector of schools has warned.
Sir Michael Wilshaw described the city’s council as a “rotten borough… beyond redemption”, and said the state of its schools and children’s social services had been his biggest cause of concern during his time at Ofsted.
The Trojan Horse affair emerged in late 2013, over an alleged plot by some Muslim groups to take over schools in the city and run them on strict Islamic principles.
Oxford University is encouraging students to use the gender-neutral pronoun 'ze' instead of 'she and 'he'.
The students' union wrote in a leaflet that the move was intended to reduce the risk of transgender students being offended.
Students hope that the use of ‘ze’ will continue into university lectures and seminars, reported The Sunday Times.
According to Oxford University's behaviour code, using the wrong pronoun to define a transgender person is an offence.
The Casey Review into opportunity and integration makes for some alarming, if not surprising, reading.
Perhaps the most striking illustration of the segregation in our society noted in the report is that a survey of pupils at a non-faith secondary school showed that they believed Britain to be between 50 – 90 per cent Asian. That secondary school children would believe this is extraordinary and shocking, and a powerful demonstration of how segregated some communities are.
In 2013, 50 per cent of ethnic minority students were in schools where ethnic minorities were the majority. In January 2015 there were 511 schools across 43 local authorities with 50 per cent or more pupils from Pakistani or Bangladeshi ethnic backgrounds. The report states: "Muslims tend to live in highest residential concentrations at ward level." In some wards in 2011, Muslim populations were between 70 – 85 per cent.
New figures have revealed that there have been over 500 same-sex marriages in Dublin since the marriage referendum.
There were 1,082 gay marriages in Ireland in the 12 months since the unions were legalised, figures show.
A total of 2,164 people tied the knot in same-gender ceremonies in the first year of the Marriage Act which was enacted in November 2015.
Theresa May has refused calls to force all shops to close on Boxing Day, saying it is not the Government’s job to tell businesses how they should run their shows.
MPs will hold a Westminster Hall debate on a petition with more than 140,000 signatures calling for a ban on all retail premises opening the day after Christmas. on the basis that it exploits low paid workers.
The British Retail Consortium says Boxing Day has been a popular shopping day for years.
Children as young as seven are to be taught in schools to stop using the terms 'boys' and 'girls' – in case they discriminate against transgender pupils.
A guidebook for teachers, parents and pupils to be sent to schools around Britain advises against using language that suggests there are only two genders. It also condemns saying 'ladies' and 'gents'.
Instead the book – described as 'damaging' by critics – offers a bewildering array of alternative terms to describe gender and sexuality. Children who think of themselves as being the gender with which they were born are described as 'cisgender'. Other terms offered include 'panromantic', 'intersex' and 'genderqueer'.
Birmingham city council is “a rotten borough . . . beyond redemption” whose powers to run schools and social services should be overhauled because children are at risk, according to the chief inspector of schools.
In his final interview before stepping down, Sir Michael Wilshaw said the “appalling children’s services” and “awful schools” in Britain’s second largest city had been his greatest cause of concern during his five years in office.
He warned that a repeat of the so-called Trojan Horse scandal, which saw a radical Islamic ethos introduced to schools in the city, was likely unless the government acted.
SCOTLAND should set up a state-funded Muslim school to acknowledge the country’s “multicultural landscape”, says a study.
A report produced by academics at Edinburgh University says that a “significant proportion” of school-aged people in Scotland are Muslim and a state school for these students would show the Government’s “commitment to parity”.
The study, led by Dr Khadijah Elshayyal, states that Urdu should be taught “more explicitly” in schools, as it is Scotland’s fourth most widely spoken language.
Hundreds of British churches, including some of the UK’s largest congregations, have been warned against possible infiltration by a group accused of being a “cult” promoting “control and deception”.
The Church of England has issued a formal alert to almost 500 parishes in London about the activities of the group known as Parachristo.
The organisation, a registered charity, runs Bible study courses at an anonymous industrial unit under a Botox clinic and a personal training company in London Docklands.
The International Organization for the Family (IOF) rolled out its "Cape Town Declaration" in South Africa Friday, reaffirming the critical role of traditional man-woman marriage as the bedrock of civilization.
The Declaration, already signed by hundreds of religious, political, social, and civic leaders from all the continents, states that the family is the “first and primordial community" and that marriage is "the conjugal bond of man and woman." This definition is not "a matter of preference or temperament or taste,” the signers declare, but "the heart of any just social order."
Throwing down the gauntlet to the LGBT lobby, the text states that a thriving culture will firmly resist “every push to redefine marriage: to include same-sex or group bonds, or sexually open or temporary ones.” The document also declares that the nature of marriage as between one man and one woman is "a truth that no government can change."