UK Muslim schools head vows to aid struggling white students
12 February, 2020
The principle executive of three high-performing Muslim schools in the united kingdom has said he will work to aid struggling schools since it emerged that white, working class boys were doing especially poorly in education.
Hamid Patel, who heads up Star Academies, made the comments after figures showed deprived coastal parts of the UK, where in fact the population is largely white, were making little academic progress.
Three schools run by Star Academies, all Islamic, have displayed the best national progress. It is now likely to refocus its attentions from inner-city areas dominated by ethnic minorities to elsewhere.
“There is no doubt a white child has advantages. You merely have to look at the statistics on employment, average pay, the prison system and even life span. This underlines how extreme our issues are with white working-class boys that, regardless of the inherent advantages, they do so badly,” Mr Patel told THE DAYS.
He said it had been a “disgrace” that only 1 in seven white working class boys would pass national exams in English and maths, which are taken at 16.
“To attain sustained improvement will take time but we hope… to take on other schools which also have been struggling for quite some time, in communities along the northwest coast of England,” Mr Patel added.
THE UNITED KINGDOM government judges schools about how much progress students make between early schooling and the national exams at 16.
Source: www.thenational.ae