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CAIRO,
June 8 (IslamOnline.net) – A new study charges that the British
state education system has failed to accommodate the needs of Muslim
students and offers wide-ranged proposals to remedy the problem,
reported a leading British daily on Tuesday, June 8.
The
document, prepared by a cohort of academics and educationalists,
recommends amending curriculum, hiring a teacher of Islam in all
Muslim-majority state schools and reversing a trend towards mixed-sex
schooling, reported the Guardian.
"There
are still major Muslim populations within the
UK
that are not served by any suitable education service, state or
privately funded," according to the study, to be launched in the
House of Commons Thursday, June 10.
It
proposes compulsory religious education from 14 to 16, a new A-level
in Islamic studies and religious awareness training for schools staff
and governors, said the British daily.
"It
is not uncommon to find that non-Muslim staff are unaware of even the
most basic of these sensitivities, in diet and in dress requirements,
for example," according to the study.
The
study cites organizing cooking and dancing classes involving Muslim
children during Ramadan, or serving Muslim youngsters pork in school
dinners as cases in point.
