Katharine Birbalsingh

Prayer rituals in schools remain a divisive issue | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to a news report and an article by Nadeine Asbali on a prayer ban at Michaela community school in London

22, Apr, 2024 @5:27 PM

High court upholds top London school’s ban on prayer rituals

Muslim pupil loses case against Michaela community school, run by former government social mobility tsar Katharine Birbalsingh

Sally Weale Education correspondent

16, Apr, 2024 @6:18 PM

Banning prayer rituals in school? Just get religion out of education completely | Polly Toynbee

Many who praise a headteacher for preventing Muslim prayers are oddly sanguine about the number of faith schools in Britain, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Polly Toynbee

23, Jan, 2024 @8:00 AM

This ban on Muslims praying in school is a dystopian, sinister vision of Britishness | Nadeine Asbali

The decision by ‘Britain’s strictest head’ reflects a wider culture with a myopic view of what multiculturalism should look like, says teacher Nadeine Asbali

Nadeine Asbali

19, Jan, 2024 @12:20 PM

M&S advert ‘puts two fingers up to spirit of Christmas’, says headteacher

Katharine Birbalsingh tells retailer its Christmas ad featuring celebrities’ seasonal peeves will stifle children’s happiness

Nadeem Badshah

03, Nov, 2023 @10:52 PM

Private schools wanting to opt out of GCSEs ‘unable to produce the results’

Former social mobility tsar Katharine Birbalsingh says proposals come amid fears English state sector is catching up

Richard Adams Education editor

14, Sep, 2023 @1:21 PM

Labour could investigate any claim of Jess Phillips ‘racism’, says shadow minister

Bridget Phillipson says party has process to look into headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh’s complaint against frontbench colleague

Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

02, Jul, 2023 @9:03 PM

Sunak invites unions to talks on Monday as senior Tory calls on government to improve pay offer to nurses – as it happened

PM offers no hint he will compromise on pay offers as former cabinet minister says nurses key to dealing with NHS pressures

Andrew Sparrow

06, Jan, 2023 @5:07 PM

Katharine Birbalsingh quits as UK government’s social mobility chair

Britain’s strictest headteacher admitted her outspoken views meant she was ‘doing more harm than good’

Patrick Butler Social policy editor

06, Jan, 2023 @3:57 PM

Social mobility tsar casts doubt over grammar school revival in England

Katharine Birbalsingh says disadvantaged pupils with few resources struggle to win places

Richard Adams Education editor

23, Sep, 2022 @3:18 PM

Diane Abbott and Katharine Birbalsingh dine across the divide: ‘Kids thanking teachers for detention? That’s a bit extreme!’

In our celebrity Dining across the divide special, the Labour MP and the headteacher debate education, discipline and their shared Jamaican heritage

Sam Wollaston

30, Jul, 2022 @12:00 PM

The Guardian view on the Social Mobility Commission: a string of broken promises | Editorial

Editorial: Under Katharine Birbalsingh, the body has moved as far as possible away from its initial remit of child poverty

Editorial

27, Jun, 2022 @5:28 PM

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