Russia Today: Vienna’s Board of Education has ordered for a school owned by the Saudi government to stop operating by the end of the year, after it failed to provide a full list of its staff to authorities. The institution previously came under fire for its curriculum.
Located in the heart of the Austrian capital, the school has been educating 150 pupils since the start of this academic year. All lessons at the private institution are taught in Arabic, and comply with the Saudi curriculum. But the school has to be approved by the school board, if its students are to receive official Austrian education certificates. Supplying a full list of staff, so that they can be vetted, is a basic requirement which should have been fulfilled by December 1.
The educational authorities have refrained from handing out the harshest penalty within their power – immediate closure – which would only be enforced if the pupils were deemed to be in “physical or moral danger.”
The institution has four weeks to appeal the decision, according to Reuters.
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In Bangkok – attached to the city’s main mosque – there is an orphanage financed by Saudis. They have a school and teach only in Arabic. They however do not teach the Saudi curriculum, but only Qur’an, Hadith, Arabic. They are therefore breaking the Thai law which states that there is a compulsory Primary School law (forget until which grade). I asked them why they do not even teach the Thai language, the answer of the (Malaysian) teacher was that not all students speak Thai, as some are from Southern Thailand… The police should have interfered! (may be they did, I left there 1999)…