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Katharine Birbalsingh

April 2024

  • Michaela Community School in Brent

    Prayer rituals in schools remain a divisive issue

  • Michaela Community School school front

    High court upholds top London school’s ban on prayer rituals

January 2024

  • Polly Toynbee

    Banning prayer rituals in school? Just get religion out of education completely

    Polly Toynbee
  • Nadeine Asbali

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

    Nadeine Asbali

November 2023

  • Sophie Ellis-Bextor holds a blowtorch to marshmallows on a gingerbread house

    M&S advert ‘puts two fingers up to spirit of Christmas’, says headteacher

    Katharine Birbalsingh tells retailer its Christmas ad featuring celebrities’ seasonal peeves will stifle children’s happiness

September 2023

  • Katharine Birbalsingh

    Private schools wanting to opt out of GCSEs ‘unable to produce the results’

    Former social mobility tsar Katharine Birbalsingh says proposals come amid fears English state sector is catching up

July 2023

  • Jess Phillips in a pale olive-coloured coat

    Labour could investigate any claim of Jess Phillips ‘racism’, says shadow minister

    Bridget Phillipson says party has process to look into headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh’s complaint against frontbench colleague

January 2023

  • Members of the Royal College of Nursing on the picket line outside Belfast City Hospital in Belfast on 15 December, 2022.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Sunak invites unions to talks on Monday as senior Tory calls on government to improve pay offer to nurses – as it happened

  • Katharine Birbalsingh says her outspoken views were causing ‘more harm than good’.

    Katharine Birbalsingh quits as UK government’s social mobility chair

September 2022

  • Katharine Birbalsingh

    Social mobility tsar casts doubt over grammar school revival in England

    Katharine Birbalsingh says disadvantaged pupils with few resources struggle to win places

July 2022

  • Diane Abbott and Katharine Birbalsingh at a restaurant table

    Celebrity dining across the divide
    Diane Abbott and Katharine Birbalsingh dine across the divide: ‘Kids thanking teachers for detention? That’s a bit extreme!’

    In our celebrity Dining across the divide special, the Labour MP and the headteacher debate education, discipline and their shared Jamaican heritage

June 2022

  • ‘Ministers appointed Katharine Birbalsingh as chair of the Social Mobility Commission because they believe she is unlikely to make life difficult for them.’

    The Guardian view on the Social Mobility Commission: a string of broken promises

  • Teacher Writing Maths Problem on Blackboard

    Girls do like hard maths, says children’s commissioner for England

  • Boris Johnson during his speech at Blackpool and The Fylde College in Blackpool, Lancashire

    Boris Johnson a bad role model for children, says social mobility tsar

  • Katharine Birbalsingh at Michaela community school last month

    UK social mobility tsar wants focus on ‘small steps’ not giant leaps

May 2022

  • Katherine Birbalsingh standing in a classroom at Michaela community school

    UK’s ‘strictest headmistress’ fears schools will stop teaching Shakespeare

    Katharine Birbalsingh says move to decolonise English curriculum could mean Shakespeare replaced with black and female authors

March 2022

  • Katharine Birbalsingh, head teacher at Michaela school in London.

    Restrict phones to improve child social mobility in UK, says commission chair

    Katharine Birbalsingh tells school leaders’ conference ‘all the problems start on smartphones’

October 2021

  • Close up of woman holding glass of water while using laptop.

    Brief letters
    Eight glasses of water a day is an urban myth

  • Katharine Birbalsingh

    The Guardian view on social mobility: don’t turn it into a culture war

August 2021

  • Katharine Birbalsingh

    ‘Super-strict’ London headteacher in running to be social mobility champion

    Right-leaning Katharine Birbalsingh criticised ‘chaotic’ state schools at Tory party conference in 2010
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