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Dundee's Muslim School
27/09/2005
Dundee's Muslim school - Imam Muhammad Zakariya - has made sufficient progress to remain on the Register of Independent Schools.
Education Minister Peter Peacock announced today that the school, which was served with a Notice of Complaint following a negative inspection, would not be struck off the register. However, further progress is still required.
The Minister said:
"While a number of improvements - notably in relation to the curriculum offered and qualifications of teaching staff - have been made, the progress has been limited.
"This is the start of the process - not the end. The school now has an experienced headteacher at the helm and I want these developments to be sustained and built on. I look forward to being kept informed of progress."
HM Inspectorate of Education publishes its critical report on April 27, 2004, with a follow-up report on May 10, 2005.
HMIE will now revisit the school in December. Ministers have specifically asked to be kept informed of any changes to teaching staff at the school which - as it is a boarding school - will also have to register with the Care Commission.
The school will continue to be provisionally registered on the Register of Independent Schools. The category of provisional registration will be scrapped when the School Education (Ministerial Powers and Independent Schools) (Scotland) Act takes effect on December 31. The school will, therefore, require to be fully registered and Ministers could, on granting registration, impose further conditions.
The school has been provisionally registered since August 20, 2002.