Amanda Spielman says the education system has a vital role in upholding values of tolerance and fairness, while countering extreme viewsSchools should not be afraid to promote British values because some children are being brought up in environments “actively hostile” to them, the head of Ofsted has said. Trojan Horse affair: remaining disciplinary proceedings dropped Read moreIn a speech to the Birmingham Education Partnership conference, she argued British values should be at “the very heart of the curriculum”. “So the education system has a vital role in inculcating and upholding them. Spielman linked the failure to promote British values to schools caught up in the Birmingham Trojan horse scandal. “Not only were there issues with promoting British values in many of those schools, but in some cases, members of the community were attempting to bring extreme views into school life,” she said.

Source: The Guardian September 22, 2017 21:45 UTC