Mr Rammell added that Dr Siddiqui's review, as well as other reports and conferences on Islam in higher education, suggested Islamic studies departments were concentrating too much on a Middle Eastern focus and ignore the realities of Islam in modern multi-cultural Britain.

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The DfES cannot say how many people are studying Islam at university, but currently there are 44 higher education courses with Islamic studies in the title being taught.

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She says students with a financial stake in their education are often more serious about their studies and may graduate with higher grades.

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It's time for parents and students to look at the entire enterprise of higher education and ask -- how, when, where, for whom, in what studies and at what cost is a college education appropriate?

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