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Campaign image (Photo: Against Borders for Children) Nadine Osman Parents, teachers and civil right groups are celebrating the news that the Government is to back down on a controversial requirement that schools in England must collect data on their pupils’ nationality and country of birth as part of the school census. The campaign group Against […]

29th Jun 2018

Poverty not religion biggest factor in Muslim women’s education

(Photo: United States Federal Government/WikiCommons) Nadine Osman Economics, not religion, is the key cause limiting the education of Muslim women, according to new analysis by an American fact-tank group that challenges the long-held assertions that there’s a culture clash between Muslim and the Western over gender equality in education. As Muslim women move up the […]

29th Jul 2016

Muslims in China face contradictory policies

Students at Fudan University in Shanghai break their fast (Photo: Meng Yihua/The Muslim News) Meng Yihua A few weeks before Ramadan, the Chinese Government prohibited the presence of religion in nursery schools in the northwestern province of Gansu, after a video posted online showed a young girl reciting Qur’anic verses in her classroom. The Government […]

29th Jul 2016

Department for Education to collect data on immigrant students

Nadine Osman The Department for Education (DfE) will compile data on the number schoolchildren from immigrant families in England’s schools ahead of the census on October 6. DfE has changed the information that will be collected from schools, which previously only records pupils’ race and will now be extended to include information about nationality and […]

Over 120 people attended a landmark conference on the media reporting of Islam and Muslims. It was held jointly by The Muslim News and Society of Editors in London on September 15.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

The Muslim News Awards for Excellence event is to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to society. Over 850 people from diverse background, Muslim and non-Muslim, attended the gala dinner.