There are between 3,000 and 5,000 Saturday (or complementary) schools in the UK catering for people from a specific nationality.
Organised through cultural groups and associations, they offer supplementary education in core curriculum subjects, languages, culture and religious topics to children in mainstream education.
Emma Padner, a Glasgow-based freelance journalist who specialises in migration and gender, visited three of them.
Saadi Glasgow Iranian School
* Eight years after coming to Scotland as an asylum seeker, Shahnaz Kaiedpour jumped at the opportunity to be back in a classroom, teaching young…
There are between 3,000 and 5,000 Saturday (or complementary) schools in the UK catering for people from a specific nationality.
Organised through cultural groups and associations, they offer supplementary education…