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To parents’ dismay, the once prestigious American School in London is resisting calls from Ofsted regulators to change its curriculum and is sticking to teaching its “diversity, equity and inclusion” programme.

Secondary schools which fail to teach pupils LGBT lessons will be penalised by inspectors, it has been revealed.

A Christian adoption agency must allow same-sex couples to foster and adopt children, a UK judge has ruled.

The United Kingdom’s Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) argued before the High Court that Christian groups should not allow their religious beliefs to influence their professional activities.

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has accused the chief of school inspections of “Islamophobia” after she suggested veiled infants should be asked about why they feel the need to cover at such a young age.

The government is too politically correct to help schools attempting to ban Islamic hijabs, leaving teachers “alone, isolated and vulnerable”, the former head of Ofsted has said.

The head of the UK’s schools inspectorate was targeted with anti-Semitic abuse after she backed a school’s decision to ban infants from wearing the Islamic headscarf.

Extremists have tried to intimidate Britain’s schools watchdog over its crackdown on unregistered Muslim schools, where inspectors were called “Britain First paedophiles”. Ofsted boss Amanda Spielman revealed that inspectors at one of the regulator’s regional offices have been forced to take additional

An increasing number of private UK faith schools are being judged as inadequate, a report by the national inspectorate has found, calling some “squalid” and stating that in a number of establishments English is not taught properly.

A £1500-a-year Muslim girls school has been given the inspectorates lowest raking, after a series of failings including not providing toilet paper for “cultural” reasons.

School inspectors are so concerned at the level of sexist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and anti-Western material in Britain’s Islamic schools, they have compiled a dossier of examples.

The annual Islamophobia awards — previous winners of which include Breitbart London’s editor-in-chief — are “genuinely dangerous” according to Trevor Phillips, the former equalities chief who popularised the term “Islamophobia”.

Schools must promote “British values”, the head of Ofsted has said, stating that establishments with “cultural conservative or religious values” must be “exposed”.

England’s first state-funded Muslim secondary schools – that segregated boys and girls and had books promoting domestic violence and marital rape – is to be taken over by the Government.

The BBC has said in a report the Department for Education (DfE) should recruit an extra 68,000 teachers from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds so as to reflect England’s pupil demographics. “Just 13% of state-funded schools’ teachers are currently

Thousands of British school children are being put at risk in unregistered religious centres and schools, the new chief inspector warns.

Ofsted was wrong to penalise an Islamic faith school over its gender segregation policies because they affected girls and boys equally, a high court judge has ruled.

White, working class boys could see their prospects significantly improved by the introduction of grammar schools in working class areas, a study commissioned by a Labour council has found.

Dozens of Islamic schools are still operating despite Ofsted inspectors finding that the schools are “unsafe”, with children being exposed to extremist ideas as well as being unaware of British values, it has emerged. Many more schools have never been inspected at all.

An independent Islamic school in southern England has excluded a student for talking to a student of the opposite sex just weeks after receiving an ‘outstanding’ grading from Ofsted. The school said the pupil’s behaviour was in violation of its

An Islamic school in East London has failed a government inspection after literature promoting “inequality of women and punishments, including stoning to death” was found in the library, which could “unwittingly” promote “extremism”. The private Jamiatul Ummah School teaches 158 boys aged 11

The British government should let in a further 3,000 migrant children, a cross-party committee of MPs has demanded. The government has already committed itself to taking 20,000 migrants direct from refugee camps in the Middle East and resettling them in

Government inspectors could monitor Sunday schools, church youth groups and even choirs to ensure they are teaching so-called “British values”, in a move Christians have dubbed “profoundly insulting”. The potential measures by school inspection group Ofsted have been described as

Hundreds of children are being taught in “squalid” religious schools enforcing gender segregation and a “narrow curriculum”, the education regulator’s chief inspector has warned. He said no one had ever been prosecuted for running the unregistered schools, and more needs

An English junior school which doesn’t discipline its children and tells them to ignore exams because they’re all unique has been given a ‘good’ rating by the school inspection quango Ofsted. Barrowford Primary school in Lancashire hit headlines last year

Some British state (government funded) schools are deliberately under-recording the instances of bad behaviour by students and even removing truculent pupils during government inspections, all to gain good ratings. The revelation has been made by the government’s ‘classroom Tsar’ Tom Bennett,

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has confirmed that Durham Free School will be forced to close after inspectors accused the children there of being bigots for not knowing what a Muslim is. Other children at the Christian faith school, the majority

Ofsted is continuing to deny that it’s inspectors are asking young children inappropriate questions on topics such as homosexuality and transgenderism, despite a number of parents coming forward to make complaints in the last few months. The questions have been justified

The Chief Inspector of Schools was forced to deny allegations that Ofsted inspectors asked a young girl at a Christian school whether she was a virgin. John Denning MP raised a series of questions including the claim by a 12

The mother of a ten year old girl who was left in tears by school inspectors after they quizzed her about lesbianism and whether she felt trapped in her own body has spoken out. Lena Wilkinson, whose daughter Ariella attends Grindon

Inspectors have labelled pupils at a Christian school bigots and forced it to close after a young boy gave the wrong answer when asked what a Muslim was. Teachers at the school say he referenced terrorism in his answer, but argued