بريطانيا: مطالبة بمنع إنشاء مدرسة إسلامية مجانية

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

لقيت مساعي إنشاء مدرسة "المدينة" التابعة لجمعية المدينة الإسلامية كأول مدرسة إسلامية ابتدائية وثانوية مجانية - اعتراضات من الاتحادات التعليمية بمدينة "ديربي" البريطانية بزعم أن المدارس المجانية ربما توظّف معلمين غير مؤهلين، إضافة إلى مخاوف مخالفة منهج المدرسة للمنهج التعليمي العام.

وبناء على ذلك طالب ممثلو الجمعية الوطنية لاتحاد مديري المدارس الجماهير بالتعبير عن قلقهم ورفضهم أثناء المناقشات المحلية التي ستستغرق 6 أسابيع، في حين ناقش الاتحاد الوطني للمعلمين كيفية تنظيم حملة معارضة بناء المدرسة، التي يخشى تأثيرها على الطلاب المنقولين إليها من المدارس العامة، وللحيلولة دون الاستقلال عن التعليم العام.

وردًا على تلك المخاوف أكد المسؤولون بالجمعية الإسلامية التزامهم بكافة المتطلبات بتوظيف معلمين مؤهلين، وتقديم مناهج مناسبة متوازنة تخلق مناخًا من التسامح مع كل أتباع المعتقدات للحصول على الموافقة الحكومية. المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Unions stand together in fight against Muslim free school in Derby

THE two biggest teaching unions have announced they will fight the setting up of a Muslim free school in Derby.

Union leaders fear pupils at the planned school may not be taught by qualified teachers and are also concerned that, although it is planned to open in September, it does not yet have a suitable building.

They also say they are worried the school will not follow a "broad curriculum" and that it would harm the city's state schools by attracting away Muslim pupils.

But the school, which would be a known as Al-Madinah, the name of Islam's second holiest city, has insisted all children would be taught by qualified teachers and it would offer a "broad and balanced" curriculum.

The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers has urged Derby people to voice their concerns during the six-week consultation period which starts on Monday. The other major teaching union, NUT, has also spoken out against Al-Madinah. The NASUWT has challenged the school's trustees to a debate in front of a public audience and the local community.

Al-Madinah will be a new type of "free" school which the Government is allowing groups of parents to set up.

These operate in much the same way as private schools, outside local authority control, but qualify for Government funding.

The Department for Education allows free schools to use head teachers and teachers without official qualifications.

Dave Wilkinson, branch secretary of the Derby NASUWT, said: "We are not opposed to faith schools but we are opposed to free schools and we want people to reject the Al-Madinah School as a school for their children.

The NUT has also spoken out against the school and is meeting early next week to decide what form a campaign might take.

Ian Jennison, branch secretary of the Derby National Union of Teachers, said his members were totally opposed to free schools and he had concerns about the impact of pupils moving to it from local schools.

He said: "We need to have people working together of different faiths and not having people breaking out into independent and separate schools".