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English schoolchildren will be taught “British values” in the wake of a report that some schools had been taken over by Islamists.

Michael Gove, the education minister, said that in future all of England’s 20,000 elementary and high schools will have to promote British values of tolerance and fairness.

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The announcement came in the wake of the “Trojan horse” scandal which found that some schools in the central city of Birmingham had been taken over by Islamists.

Regulator the Office for Standards in Education said Monday it had found a “culture of fear and intimidation” at a minority of the 21 schools it inspected. Five were found to have failed to protect students from extremism.

The review found that one of the schools had been funding a Madrassa from its own budget; at another school only Muslim children had been taken on trips to Saudi Arabia; a third school regularly broadcast a call to Muslim prayer over the school’s loudspeaker in the playground, while another school taught in biology that “evolution is not what we believe.”