A privately-run Muslim school in Scotland has been given six months to comply with a series of recommendations or face closure. School inspectors have issued a highly critical report on the Imam Muhammad Zakariya school in Dundee. They said it was not fulfilling its aim of educating pupils in line with the standards of the Scottish system. The school says it welcomes the report and is confident of meeting the requirements. Effectively, the school has six months from now to address the issues raised by inspectors. The secondary school, which opened in 2001, caters for 20 girls and inspectors found that for two weeks at a time they were confined to the inside of a small building and garden. Quite rightly so.
The report also said;
- the management of the school was unsatisfactory
- the quality of learning was unsatisfactory in all classes
- the resources for boarders were unsatisfactory
- and all staff apart from the headteacher were under the age of 20
Three guesses...
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