By Daily Mail Reporter The controversial Al-Madinah free school is to stop teaching secondary pupils from this summer. The Government has stepped in after an Ofsted report warned that the Muslim faith school in Derby was in chaos, with concerns over teaching quality and the curriculum, amid claims that it was imposing strict Islamic practices such as forcing women to wear headscarves. Schools minister Lord Nash said: ‘It would simply not be in the interests of parents or pupils at the secondary school to continue to fund provision which has failed them in the manner now apparent.’ He said the move would allow the trust in charge to focus on the primary school.

'We have monitored

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- Al-Madinah very closely since problems came to light last year.
- Daily Mail very closely since problems came to light last year.
- Department for Education very closely since problems came to light last year.
- Derby very closely since problems came to light last year.
- Islamic very closely since problems came to light last year.
- Lord Nash very closely since problems came to light last year.
- Muslim very closely since problems came to light last year.
- Ofsted very closely since problems came to light last year.


Al-Madinah very closely since problems came to light last year.