Discussion about the Turkish “Matura”

June 11, 2014 Austrian gymnasiums are going to establish Turkish “Matura” (general qualification for university entrance). Apart from the rightwing party FPÖ there is no resistance against that effort. The FPÖ opinion in that case is, that a Turkish Matura will negatively affect the integration process of the Turkish migrants.

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Troubled Islamic free school in Derby to close its secondary school

February 9, 2014   A troubled free school is to stop teaching pupils of secondary school age from September. Schools Minister Lord Nash, the man responsible for free schools and academies, announced that the Al-Madinah free school in Derby would close its secondary school because of the poor quality of teaching. In a letter to

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France-Qatar Agreement

January 28, 2014   France and Qatar signed an agreement to regulate problems that had emerged in the Lycée Voltaire in Doha. The agreement stipulates that Islamic studies and Arabic will be implemented in the school, and separation between male and female students will be reinforced in its future secondary school. The president of the

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Islamic Secondary School in Rotterdam to Close

10 September 2013 Ibn Ghaldoun School, the Rotterdam secondary school which was the focus of an exam theft earlier this year, is to lose its government funding and close down. According to Sander Dekker, the Netherlands’ Junior Education Minister, the closure is based on a recommendation from school inspectors. The school has financial difficulties, and

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Islamic Secondary School in Rotterdam to Take on Christian School Association Management

The Islamic secondary school in Rotterdam which has been involved in a scandal over unauthorized early access to final exams, now faces different management.  There had been calls for the school, which also faces financial problems, to close down. Rather, NOS reports that the school is to be run by a Christian secondary school association

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