{"id":6657,"date":"2014-06-02T13:06:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T13:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/06\/02\/birmingham-schools-face-trojan-horse-inquiry\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:52:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:52:21","slug":"birmingham-schools-face-trojan-horse-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/06\/02\/birmingham-schools-face-trojan-horse-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Schools Face Trojan Horse Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The government\u2019s Chief Inspector of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, is set to condemn six Birmingham based schools for \u201cfailing to prepare for life in modern Britain.\u201d Ofsted is due to publish the results of it\u2019s investigation in to the so-called \u2018Trojan Horse\u2019 affair in which allegations were made about an \u2018Islamist plot to subvert schools in the city.\u2019<\/div>\n

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The report is expected to say that there \u201cwas scant evidence of religious extremism on a daily basis in classrooms.\u201d However, claims that schools were homophobic or preached gender discrimination were played down as Ofsted were seen to find less evidence. <\/div>\n

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Amongst the schools were three that were run by the Park View Academy Trust, which were Park View Academy, Golden Hillock and Nansen Primary School \u2013 all which are set to be rated as \u201cinadequate\u201d and placed in special measures. The trust has since been removed from running the schools and its governors have been replaced by the Department of Education. <\/div>\n

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\u201cIn the case of Park View, the inadequate grade would come a little more than two years after Ofsted inspectors rated the school as outstanding in all areas and praised it for its excellent academic results and inclusivity. In the two subsequent years its exam results have improved, but the latest Ofsted evaluation downgrades teaching and achievement.\u201d <\/div>\n

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Reports have also suggested that the chair of governors at Park View, Tahir Alam, was the ringleader of the plot, a claim that he denied. \u201cI have no idea what this is about. This type of character assassination is very upsetting, and hard to respond to because it comes from anonymous sources, I’ve been involved in education for 17 years. I’m not some sort of hidden character; I have a long track record of working in inner city schools, in disadvantaged areas, to raise standards.”\u00a0<\/div>\n

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Investigation Outcome Set To Be Released The government\u2019s Chief Inspector of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, is set to condemn six Birmingham based schools for \u201cfailing to prepare for life in modern Britain.\u201d Ofsted is due to publish the results of it\u2019s investigation in to the so-called \u2018Trojan Horse\u2019 affair in which allegations were made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}