Madinat al-Muslimeen Islamic Message Board
| White Paper on Education |
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| Anonymous |
| 01/19/02 at 22:07:41 |
| London School of Islamics An Educational Trust 63 Margery Park Road, London E7 9LD Tel/Fax : 0208-555-2733. E-mail : londonschoolofislamics@yahoo.co.uk White Paper on Education According to the White Paper on Education, the British Government has decided to hand over state schools to private companies to improve standard of education. The process of privatization started in 1998 in Islington and Surrey and from now on it will be extended to all big inner cities schools, where majority of pupils is underachievers. I would like to draw the attention of the plight of majority of underachiever Muslim pupils in inner cities schools who are at the bottom of the educational ladder. I do not blame them or their parents. Multicultural education did nothing for them. It damaged race relation and failed to improve standard and quality of education. The recent riots are the clear examples of its failure. The needs and demands of the Muslim pupils are different from others. They need different type of environment to develop confidence and motivation, which will help them to raise their standard of education. A handful of Muslim schools with meager resources have produced good discipline and better exam results. Muslim community does not have the resources to set up schools for each and every Muslim pupil. Its number is on the increase due to high birth rate, immigration and conversion. My humble proposal is that those state schools where Muslim pupils are in majority should be handed over to Muslim Educational Trusts and Charities. They are in a better position to manage and control them. They will provide an educational system based on the needs and demands of Muslim parents as well as Muslim pupils. Muslim teachers will act as role models. Top Muslim teachers will be recruited from abroad to teach National Curriculum. It will also solve the problem of teacher shortages to some extent. Special attention will be given to the teaching of English language without which Muslim pupils cannot compete with the rest of the population in employment and in higher education and scientific research. For this purpose local English speaking teachers will be employed to teach English language, literature and poetry. At the same time teaching of Arabic language as a Quranic and religious language will be given a priority. Urdu language will be taught to the pupils from the sub- continent as a social and emotional language so that they do not find themselves cut of from their roots. Islamic atmosphere will help them to develop Islamic Identity crucial for mental, emotional and mental development. Phe Education Act of 1944 clearly emphasis that the children should be educated according to the needs and demands of the parents and my proposal is not contrary to it. I hope that it will help to raise the standard of education. They will leave with good discipline and better grades to pursue higher education to serve humanity. They will improve and enhance the social, spiritual and economic prosperity of the British society at large. It will pave a way for better understanding and respect between the host community and Muslim community. On the other hand if my proposal is not implemented than the number of private religious Madressas will emerge every where. The parents will have no choice but to send their children who will spend most of their time learning fundamentals of Islam while ignoring English language and National Curriculum, making them misfit for the British society at large. My proposal will produce a generation of young Muslims who are capable of facing and solving the challenges of dynamic and ever changing world, thus, contributing for the prosperity of the small global village. A Muslim is supposed to be a citizen of the whole world irrespective of class, creed and race who respect and understand others. Iftikhar Ahmad |
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