Islamophobic criticism of schools isn’t limited to Birmingham. Ofsted inspected Olive Tree primary school in Luton last month. Farasat Latif, the school’s chair of governors, told Socialist Worker why the report published on 4 June has caused a lot of anger
Unison union members walked out on strike at Lambeth College in south London today, Wednesday. They joined UCU union members at the college, who are already on all-out strike.
The moral panic the Tories and their friends in the press are whipping up over the issue of Muslims and education is about racism. There was no “Trojan horse” plot of Islamic fundamentalists to take over Birmingham schools.