A man jailed for his support for terrorist group Islamic State has been banned from being involved in running schools.
Mohammed Mizanur Rahman is now barred from holding management positions in private schools and being a state school governor under a prohibition direction issued by the education secretary Damian Hinds.
Rahman, an associate of radical preacher Anjem Choudary, was previously a proprietor of an unregistered school, Siddeeq Academy in east London, which closed in 2015 following his arrest and an Ofsted inspection. He was jailed in 2016 for inviting support for ISIS and a string of other offences.
He is understood to be the third person ever to banned from being a school governor.
The order, made on January 21 but only published today, states that Rahman has been blocked from the roles because he was convicted of inciting racial hatred, solicitation to murder and inviting support for a proscribed terrorist group. [Schools Week] Read more
