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The Independent UK

Britain’s ‘strictest teacher’ says middle class parents shun her school

‘People imagine I am walking along the corridor with whips and chains, but I can be quite funny,’ the strictest headmistress in Britain insists

The Independent UK

Top London private school shakes up English curriculum with drag queen memoir and non-binary writers

Staff at Alleyn’s School in Dulwich say the authors were introduced as part of a ‘genuine diversification’ of the curriculum

Evening Standard

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‘They are making young people ill’: is it time to scrap GCSEs?

They have shaped the fortunes of young people in the UK for four decades. But now even the former education secretary who introduced these exams wants to see them abolished ...

The Guardian - UK

Britain's strictest headteacher claims transgender children more likely to be 'white' and 'privileged'

Katharine Birbalsingh also says that ‘victimhood is admired’ in interview with the Standard

Evening Standard

Katharine Birbalsingh: 'Our education secretary? A patronising, cultural marxist'

Britain’s ‘strictest headteacher’ says it straight. At her Wembley school Dylan Jones meets a powerhouse waging a one-woman war against the Government’s education reforms

Evening Standard

Protesters rally against Government’s ‘insane’ Schools Bill

Speeches were delivered by representatives from home education groups, religious organisations and children’s charities.

Evening Standard

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Salman Rushdie out, Dan Brown in: why it’s time to detoxify our middle-class bookshelves

Drop the pretence: instead of parading a love of highbrow literature, just enjoy the books you want to read

The Guardian - UK

The dogma of ‘Britain’s Strictest Headmistress’ is a con as old as time - gentle parenting produces happier kids

Disciplinarians claim a stern approach is best, but there’s a lot of evidence to dispute this, says the Observer parenting columnist

The Guardian - UK

Education Secretary says Birbalsingh’s account of meeting ‘not as it was’

Bridget Phillipson met Katharine Birbalsingh, who has been commonly described as Britain’s strictest headteacher, earlier this month.

The Independent UK

‘Strictest head’ warns Government ‘about to totally destroy academies’

‘I wasn’t lecturing her,’ Katharine Birbalsingh said when asked about her meeting with Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson.

The Independent UK

Bridget Phillipson ‘told high-profile headteacher to lower her tone’ in meeting

The Education Secretary met with Katharine Birbalsingh – who has been commonly described as Britain’s strictest headteacher.

Evening Standard

London headteacher criticises Labour proposals to limit logos on uniform

Katharine Birbalsingh says school-branded trousers and skirts can help prevent pupils from sexual exploitation

The Guardian - UK

London headteacher says 'private school families' facing higher fees looking for places at her state school

Katharine Birbalsingh, headteacher at Michaela Community School in Wembley, said this interest from these families had not happened before at her school

Evening Standard

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Ofsted grading change is putting 'feelings' above 'facts', says Britain's strictest headteacher

‘Abolishing judgments because of leaders feeling bad is a nod in the wrong direction. It is an indulgence of the tyranny of feelings being more important than facts’ - Katharine Birbalsingh

Evening Standard

Schools have role to play in helping country 'manage' multiculturalism says strictest headteacher following riots

Multiculturalism must be ‘managed’ for it to succeed, says Katharine Birbalsingh

Evening Standard

OPINION - Rachel Johnson: We're in the Battle of Britain 2.0 and the Michaela school case proves it

It’s not exactly the Cabinet War Rooms in Whitehall, but another Battle of Britain is being waged almost unaided from a shabby Sixties-era former office block in the shadow of Wembley Stadium.

The Guardian - UK

Michaela school will keep its prayer ban – but as a Muslim teacher I know it doesn’t have to be this way

I’ve seen the richness that religious diversity brings to school life, says Nadeine Asbali, a secondary schoolteacher in London

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Evening Standard

Headteacher’s prayer ban ‘lawful’ & London primary school places: The Standard podcast

A high court judge has ruled that a prayer ban at one of the highest-performing state schools in England run by ‘Britain’s strictest headteacher’ - was not unlawful.

Evening Standard

Muslim student loses High Court challenge against ‘prayer ban’ at Michaela Community School

The Muslim pupil brought a legal challenge against the north London school over its allegedly discriminatory policy

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

Who is ‘Britain’s strictest headteacher’ Katharine Birbalsingh?

Michaela Community School in London is at the centre of a legal challenge

The Guardian - UK

Tory party must face up to Islamophobia in its ranks

Letters: Paul McGilchrist, George Duoblys and Toby Roddham on the racist rhetoric that is now commonplace among Conservative members

Evening Standard

Prayer ban row headteacher is 'fantastic' says education secretary

Gillian Keegan backs headteachers' right to make policies for their own schools

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: splits emerge in Tory party’s latest splinter group

Liz Truss’s new Popular Conservatism movement appears to be divided before it’s begun. Plus, why culture wars are very tiring

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