Educating Young People about Islamophobia

According to a May 2018 report, ‘Many young Muslim people say abuse is so commonplace it is normalised, but teachers feel ill-equipped to tackle issues of Islamophobia in the classroom.’ Ofsted expect outstanding tutors to have the knowledge and confidence to take advantage of what is going in the world to help prepare learners for life in Britain’s complex multicultural society. Are your tutors confident to tackle this issue and to facilitate conversations around Islamophobia? Would new resources help?

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Promoting British values – what key challenges remain?

Equality, diversity and British values continue to feature highly in the April 2018 inspection handbook update. Many organisations have made good progress in integrating and promoting Equality, diversity and British values to help prepare learners as responsible citizens in society. But inspection outcomes show that there are still key challenges for colleges and workplace learning providers. Do you know what these are? And more importantly, what are you doing about them? Interested in finding out what others are doing to tackle these challenges?

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Removing labels at Ramadan

Did you know that it takes just seven seconds to build a prejudice based on someone's appearance? This year at Ramadan, Coke invited six strangers to meet in the dark. See what they discovered and how it changed the way they see the world. And while we are reflecting on this year’s Ramadan, how well did you support your staff?

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Dates for your diaries

By popular demand, I am delivering two intensive, interactive national workshops on behalf of the AoC. Updated with the very latest findings from Ofsted, these are:

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Promoting British values, facilitating controversial discussions

Outstanding organisations are expected to place the promotion of fundamental British values ‘at the heart’ of all that they do. Are you confident that inspectors will judge your work to be outstanding? And in particular, how are teaching staff in different curriculum teams contributing to the Prevent Duty by promoting fundamental British values? Do they have the knowledge and confidence to discuss sensitive or controversial topics? Do they take advantage of what is going on in the world? Are they preparing learners thoroughly for life in Britain's complex, diverse and multicultural society?

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