DATE : 14 May 2025 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster
Bridgend council in Wales has been heavily criticised for last year commissioning a PowerPoint presentation for use in schools endorsing, among other things, strangulation during sex. Seemingly tackling the problem of consent, one of the slides stated baldly, ‘It is never OK to start choking someone without asking them first.’. Thankfully, the draft guidance was dropped after […]
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DATE : 28 March 2025 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster
Please sign our petition: NO to Hamid Patel as Chair of Ofsted Before taking on the role of chief executive of Star Academies, a Muslim faith-based network of 36 schools, Sir Hamid Patel was headteacher of Tauheedul Islam Girls’ High School in Blackburn, where he encouraged pupils to recite the Koran at least once a week, […]
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DATE : 25 March 2025 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster
Hot on the heels of the announcement of Sir Hamid Patel as interim chairman of Ofsted, comes news that, in the interests of inclusivity, Norwood Primary School in Eastleigh, Hampshire, is this year cancelling its popular Easter Bonnet Parade and Easter service. Never let it be said that the South of England is lagging behind […]
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DATE : 19 March 2025 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster
News came in the press last week of the appointment of an interim chairman for Ofsted, the schools’ regulatory body for England, pending the permanent appointment of a successor to Dame Christine Ryan, who resigned last year following a damning review highly critical of Ofsted’s response to the suicide of Ruth Perry. In announcing the […]
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DATE : 10 January 2025 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says she wants to make education ‘more diverse’. She wants to decolonise subjects which have been branded too ‘mono-cultural’. And she wants to get rid of the stranglehold of ‘dead white men’, replacing white writers and playwrights with ‘more diverse authors reflective of multi-cultural Britain. These changes will brainwash children and destroy our culture. […]
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