1101, 2016

Speaker’s Corner: Testing Times – Fear and Fasting in Secondary Schools

By Myriam Francois|January 11, 2016|Speaker's Corner|2 comments

One anonymous British school teacher provides some insight on the responses among his student to proposed changes to Exams timetabled to accommodate Ramadan, in order to assist fasting pupils Testing Times: Fear and Fasting in Secondary Schools. by Sami Piperdi (pseudonym)   As a Secondary school teacher who works in an establishment with approximately 50% Muslim students, I was particularly interested in the news story that appeared on the BBC website

Read More

2112, 2015

Speaker’s Corner: Preventing “PREVENT”, why the NUS opposes the government’s counter-terrorism strategy in education, by Malia Bouattia

By Myriam Francois|December 21, 2015|Speaker's Corner|0 comments

Preventing  “PREVENT”, why the NUS opposes the government’s counter-terrorism strategy in education Malia Bouattia, NUS  UK Black Students’ Officer  The National Union of Students (NUS) has come under fire as of late for opposing the government’s PREVENT counter-terror extremism strategy – the main criticism for this stance coming from, unsurprisingly, the government themselves who have called on the NUS to drop this opposition. Firstly and above all, this position has come about

Read More