The Latest Breaking News from Michaela

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 · Jan 17, 2025

The threat to BTec courses in England is the educational scandal no one’s talking about

Snobbery and a lack of transparency around Labour’s review may be why there isn’t more outrage, says Guardian journalist Susanna Rustin

The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2024

Faith groups want more say in secular Britain. Labour should tell them to go to hell

Most Britons don’t identify as religious, and would prefer to keep worship out of schools

The Guardian - UK · May 12, 2024

'A victory for all schools': Britain's 'strictest headteacher' Katharine Birbalsingh hails High Court prayer ban ruling

Michaela Community school is ‘a joy to be in’ thanks to strict rules, says Katharine Birbalsingh

Evening Standard · Apr 16, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Apr 16, 2024

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

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

Evening Standard · Apr 16, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Jan 26, 2024

OPINION - Katharine Birbalsingh is right and the High Court now agrees: a school is not a church

Where education is concerned, everything is about leadership. My family and I live in Tyburnia, just off Edgware Road. Twenty-two years ago we (well, my wife) started looking for a primary school for our two daughters. My wife soon found out about a Church of England state primary, Hampden Gurney,…

Evening Standard · Jan 22, 2024

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

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

The Guardian - UK · Jan 19, 2024

Katharine Birbalsingh defends ban on school prayers in high court

Headteacher of London school Michaela says policy is vital to ensure ‘children of all races and religions can thrive’

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2024