There had been one or two disturbing cases with existing state schools, where people had been found trying to subvert them.
Wary of Islamic extremism and extremists gaining ground in the country, the British government is sending former MI5 spies into the schools to root out such menace and is contemplating freezing any move to set up Madrasas.
The government is understood to be recruiting former members of the elite spy agents MI5 with expertise in handling Islamic terrorists to send them to classrooms, Daily Express reported.
"We have been working with people who have been in the intelligence services in order to ensure that there is no-one from the wrong sort of background involved in education," the paper quoted the Education Secretary Michael Gove as saying.
Whitehall sources confirmed that a 'due diligence unit' with former MI5 staff had been set up within the Department for Education to probe for extremists in schools.
The British minister revealed that there had been one or two disturbing cases with existing state schools, where people had been found trying to subvert them.there had been one or two disturbing cases with existing state schools, where people had been found trying to subvert them.
Also for the first time, Gove came out openly to say that the new government would not allow anyone to establish free schools, an apparent reference to moves to set up schools patterned on Madrasas.
Gove said, "I've been crystal clear we should not have schools set up by extremists whether they're Christian fundamentalists, Islamic fundamentalists or any other sort of outrageous and beyond-the-pale organisation."
All applicants desiring to set up the new educational establishments, which are free from local council control and can be run by parents or voluntary groups, would be vetted by the new investigation unit.
"We've set up a unit within the department explicitly to monitor anyone who comes forward with a proposal for extremism," the minister said.
Gove charged that in the last government, money was going to extremist groups that was supposed to go to fight terrorism.
"Now we have a unit in place to prevent that," the minister stated.
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