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Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Muslim school changes curriculum after Sky News investigation

A private Muslim school has been forced to change its curriculum, overhaul teaching standards and improve child safety following a Sky News investigation.
Education watchdog Ofsted served a statutory notice on the Institute of Islamic Education in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, after its strict Sharia code for pupils was made public, including the threat of expulsion for mixing with outsiders
Documents handed out to parents warned that boarders were forbidden from watching TV, listening to music, or reading newspapers, while pupils were taught not to speak to the media. 
The school, which is run by the secretive Deobandi sect, has now been told it is meeting the required standards, but it has no website and it is unclear whether the policies are still in place. 
Inspectors had praised the school in 2011, but re-graded it as inadequate in October 2015 after a re-inspection, and told senior figures at the sect's Markazi Mosque that they were failing to meet basic standards. 
In a further blow to the sect, which runs the school in the grounds of its Tablighi Jamaat headquarters in Savile Town, a subsequent school improvement plan was rejected in April 2016 by the Department for Education. 
Shabbir Daji
Image Caption:Shabbir Daji is involved with both schools. Pic: Batley News
The Ofsted report blamed school leaders, governors and trustees for failing to ensure child safety, and said the trustees, led by mosque elder Shabbir Daji, "do not fulfil their statutory duty".

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