UK Telegraph: Plan for 'no-notice' school inspections to stamp out Islamic extremism in classrooms
Schools are to face no-notice inspections after it emerged that those at the centre of the alleged Trojan Horse plot put on "hastily arranged shows of cultural inclusivity" to fool regulators.
David Cameron will order Ofsted to consider lightning inspections of all schools in the future as part of a “robust response” to allegations that Islamic extremists infiltrated schools in Birmingham.
The Government believes changes are needed after it was revealed that some schools at the centre of the affair suddenly staged lessons and assemblies on Christianity to give a false impression of religious harmony.
In further measures, Ofsted will announce that all schools will be forced to promote a “broad and balanced” education to prepare pupils for life as British citizens.
It is not just an argument about how to prevent terrorism inspired by religious fanaticism. It is also about the future of our culture, and how to ensure that it does not fragment into a series of segregated and separate groups united only by their mutual suspicion and distrust.
That is the nightmare scenario that just about everyone wants to avoid. It is one conjured up as a serious possibility not just by political parties such as Ukip and pressure groups such as Migration Watch, but also by academic researchers who study the impact of immigration.
Girls found hanged after gang-rape 'may have been victims of honour killings'
Two teenage cousins found hanging from a mango tree after being kidnapped, gang-raped and lynched, may in fact have been murdered in an honour killing by members of their own family, police in India have suggested.
Photographs of the low caste girls, aged 14 and 15, hanging from the tree, provoked a worldwide outcry over the scale of sexual violence in India and atrocities suffered by its backward castes and "untouchables".
UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon voiced his horror at the killings. The girls had been walking to a nearby field to go to the toilet one evening last month when they were allegedly seized by five men, gang-raped and hung from a tree.
Three of the men accused were arrested along with two policemen who had refused to help the victims' families when they first reported their daughters missing. Two more suspects are on the run.
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Trojan horse report: All schoolchildren to be taught British values from September, says Michael Gove
Education secretary Michael Gove said that, from the start of the next academic year, all of England’s 20,000 primary and secondary schools will have to teach British values of tolerance and fairness
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