Department for Education

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• Appoints Hamid Patel as OFSTED chairman, an Islamic religious school leader where he invited antisemetic Muslims to visit, urged pupils to wear hijabs, required pupils to recite the Koran at least once a week, and not to bring stationary that contained un-Islamic images.
• Accused of sham students in universeity in a giant fraud scandal.
• Asks teachers in deprived areas to supervise toothbrushing.
• Teacher fired for expressing his views on Sharia law was not unfairly dismissed.
• Universities failing to promote diversity will face funding cuts.
• Shakespeare is outdated and the education curriculum needs to be "anti-racist" and "decolonised".
• Boys to get anti-misogyny lessons as because of a fictional TV drama.
• Teacher sacked after calling class "chattering monkeys".
• Every new school being built in England is in unsafe air pollution area according to the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood.
• Concerns degrees like "Middle East queer politics" used as immigration route into UK.
• Stopped pension of retired teacher 4 times because her pension provider, Capita, administered by Department for Education, repeatedly refuses to accept that she is not dead.
• Holocaust education program postponed at three UK schools due to community tensions.
• Considering offering Sharia compliant student loans.
• Curriculum guidelines state that The British Empire should be taught to school pupils like Nazy Germany.
• Teacher struck off after ridiculing her school's gender identity policy.
• A GCSE textbook that says jihad in Gaza is "justified" has been pulled from print.
• Pupils to be shown assembly on respect after riots.
• Pupil was called a racist and a Nazi for supporting Reform UK by a member of staff at my school.
• Parents told to prove they couldn't afford private school due to new VAT requirements for private schools.
• AQA GCSE textbooks remove Taiwan references after CCP complaints.
• Teacher Joshua Sutcliffe banned over misgendering pupil loses High Court appeal.
• Children as young as five to be taught how to spot "conspiracy theories" as identified by the government online.
• Courses are accepting students with such poor English that they can not spell simple words and fail to attend classes as soon as they receive their £4,000 maintenance loan and council tax exemption.
• Radical feminist professor, specialising in education inequalities and gender stereotypes, will lead a shake up of the national curriculum for schools in England.
• Teachers will be instructed in how to "disrupt the centrality of whiteness" in schools.
• All school meals in parts of Wales are Halal, with no other options available.

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