Education

THE TRANSPORT FOR LONDON (TfL) “School of excellence pupil-led project award 2017” was handed to the London Islamic School at City Hall last week. The presentation was made by Dr Will Norman, the London Mayor’s Walking & Cycling Commissioner. The ...

Emdad Rahman Darul Ummah has held its annual Excel Awards to celebrate excellent achievements in the community and education including those taking SATs, GCSEs, A-Levels, university courses and/or Islamic studies. The awards, organised by Dawatul Islam UK & Eire, honour ...

Emdad Rahman LONDON ISLAMIC SCHOOL, a Muslim Secondary school for boys in Tower Hamlets, has been awarded the Team London Environment and Healthy Living Award 2017 for outstanding contribution to volunteering. The award was made at a gala conference at ...

THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON (UEL) Bangladesh Alumni Network UK held its annual London event at its Stratford campus on 20th November. This was an engaging and encouraging event which brought UEL graduates of Bangladeshi ethnicity, their families and friends ...

COURT OF APPEAL has ruled that the Al-Hijrah school in Birmingham was guilty of sex discrimination when it exercised a policy of segregating boy and girl pupils. The Court ruled that the policy left girls “unprepared for life in modern ...

HOW MANY FAMILIES must go through the agony of losing a son before schools learn how to cope with children’s allergies? A third boy with recorded allergies has lost his life because a school dealt with his fish allergy – ...

CLLR SIRAJUL ISLAM put his housing portfolio on the shelf for a couple of hours on Thursday and popped across to Central Foundation Girls School to watch the opening of GCSE results. The Deputy Mayor – the only one that ...

BIGGS, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has revealed that he attended Morpeth School last week to see pupils collecting their “A”-level results. The reason for the delay in announcing the visit has not been made clear. He has not released any ...

THERESA MAY has come up with a new trick to try to cover up the Government’s lack of concern for state funded schools. Unfortunately for the Tories, the trick is so transparent that no one is going to be impressed ...

PUPILS AT Manorfield primary school in Tower Hamlets launched their edible playground last week. No – they’re not down on their knees gnawing at the tarmac. The pupils are growing fruit and veg – and scoffing it when it’s ready for ...