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| Open Circle for Open Minds |
The City Circle promotes the development of a distinct British Muslim identity. It seeks to assist the process of community cohesion and integration by building bilateral strategic alliances between Muslim and non-Muslim communities and harness and channel the skills and resources of Muslim professionals into practical projects thereby facilitating and empowering young Muslim women and men to 'put back in' to the wider British community.
The City Circle is an open circle for open minds. The City Circle provides an atmosphere where individuals are pushed to think outside the box. The City Circle hosts weekly events where ideas develop, the soul is nourished and issues highlighted. It seeks to promote practical and progressive solutions to community problems. The City Circle runs targeted community based projects and highlights social and welfare causes as well as servicing third party initiatives. The City Circle is a registered charity.
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Why are our kids failing? |
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Tahir Alam and Abdullah Trevarthen |
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Abrar House, 45 Crawford Place, London W1H 4LP |
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Friday 3th July 2009, 6.45pm - 8.30pm |
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According to the Office of National Statistics, in 2004 a third of Muslims of working age in Great Britain had no qualifications – the highest proportion for any religious group. They were also the least likely to hold university degrees or equivalent qualifications (12 per cent). Muslim pupils, especially those of Pakistani and Bangladeshi descent are amongst the lowest achievers, have below-average reading ability and are over-represented in lower sets in schools. The City Circle is pleased to be joined by panelists – Tahir Alam and Abdullah Traverthen, who will explore what factors may be contributing to this crisis and ways ahead.
Tahir Alam is an advisor for The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB). He has participated in many policy consultation forums and debates on educational issues relating to education of British Muslim children and wider educational issues. He is the lead author of the MCB school guidance document on ‘Meeting the Needs of Muslim Pupils in State Schools’. He is the executive committee member of the Association of Muslim Schools (AMS) and regularly advises on Muslim education and facilitates training workshops on 'Islam and Muslim Cultural Awareness' and 'Meeting the Needs of Muslim Pupils in Schools'. He presents the 'Education Talk' programme on a community radio station (Unity Radio) in Birmingham and has contributed to many radio and television programmes on the theme of Muslim Education in particular. He is currently a trustee of Birmingham Central Mosque and the Al-Hijrah Trust.
Abdullah Trevarthen was born in New York in 1954. He spent formative years in Puerto Rico, Greece. Germany and Morroco. In the spirit of the 70's he set out for the East in a spiritual quest which eventually deposited him in North Africa. In his early twenties, he was engaged in organic farming and goat husbandry for a proverbial seven years in the Netherlands where he entered Islam in 1976 through the auspices of Moroccan migrant workers. Abduallah Trevathan was formerly Headmaster of Islamia School, the first state funded, voluntary muslim school in the UK and was also the retreat leader on BBC2’s ‘The Retreat’. He currently lectures in education at Roehampton University.
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For more information, please contact Sid Djerfi on sid_djerfi@yahoo.co.uk or 07786 212 486
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