33% of British Muslims Have no Qualifications for Working
Warner emailed us the following with his reply to the question posed at the end of the article:
Why do too many Muslims leave school unqualified?
More than a third of British Muslims have no qualifications – why is the education system apparently failing?
April 1, 2008 – blogs.guardian.co.uk
Also see: education.guardian.co.uk
According to the Office for National Statistics, around 33% of British Muslims of working age have no qualifications — the highest proportion for any religious group in this country — and Muslims are also the least likely to have degrees or equivalent qualifications.
A group of theologians and educationalists are due to meet this weekend to discuss the underachievement of Muslim pupils and consider ways to remove the barriers to better achievement. Only a fraction of the estimated 500,000 Muslim school-aged pupils in England and Wales receive a private Islamic education: most are in the state system.
Of the 127 Muslim schools in England and Wales only a handful are state-aided; the rest are fee paying. There are at least 700 supplementary schools, or madrasa, attached to mosques. These have no regulation or Ofsted checks. Classes are held after school or at weekends and teach children about the Qur’an and how to speak Arabic.
Muhammad Akram Khan-Cheema, who has more than 30 years’ experience as a teacher and school inspector in the UK, says low achievement needed to be researched on educational and social levels. He believes there are up to 27 factors at work — from housing to health — that will affect a child’s performance at school. Parental apathy is one.
While debate rumbles on, tell us what you think. Why is the education system apparently failing so many people, and what can be done?
“Low IQ from cousin breeding coupled with a poor grasp of logical reasoning might be worth investigating” – Warner
1 April, 2008 at 12:16 am
For the female 50%, education is a waste of time and money.
You don’t have to even be capable of writing your own name to be a locked indoors, slapped-about, chapatti rolling, baby factory dressed like a bee-keeper.
Educate them and they might just get big headed ideas above their lowly chattel station and want to fly the coop and become their own person……cant have that, dontchaknow.
1 April, 2008 at 12:47 am
* Parental apathy is one.
Islam wouldn’t be a factor, by any chance?
1 April, 2008 at 3:14 am
“Low IQ from cousin breeding coupled with a poor grasp of logical reasoning might be worth investigating” – Warner
I think it’ more like what Matamoros says, above. They don’t bother teaching girls, so schools are just holding pens, like what they are becoming for everyone here in the states.
And that’s probably why their men aren’t too bright either, because kids who are raised by moms who haven’t developed their brains won’t know how important it is for the next generation. Since a great deal of “learning” is done, or should be, from birth to when the kids are sent to school, what they loose then will probably never be made up.