Australian Islamic College

Last updated

Australian Islamic College
Location
Australian Islamic College
Perth, Western Australia and Adelaide, South Australia

Australia
Coordinates
Information
Type Independent co-educational primary and secondary day school
Denomination Islamic
Established1986;37 years ago (1986) OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
FounderAbdallah Magar
Employees400
Years K–12
Enrolment4,000 OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg  (2021)
Campuses
Website aic.wa.edu.au OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Australian Islamic College is a multi-campus independent Islamic co-educational primary and secondary day school, located in Perth, Western Australia and Adelaide, South Australia. The school was founded in 1986 by Hajji Abdallah Magar, with 50 students. As of 2021, it has 4,000 students and over 400 staff spread over four campuses, three in the Perth suburbs of Kewdale, Thornlie and Dianella, and one in the Adelaide suburb of West Croydon.

Contents

History

The school was established in 1986 by Abdallah Saad Magar as the Muslim Community School on Brisbane Street in Perth.[ clarification needed ] In 1990 a second campus was opened in Thornlie to cater for students from grades K-10, and in 1996 a third campus was opened in the northern suburb of Dianella. In 2000 Kewdale was opened on the grounds of the former Kewdale Senior High School.[ citation needed ] On 22 June 2017, the Adelaide campus was opened on the site of the former Islamic College of South Australia in the Adelaide suburb of West Croydon.

Controversies

In 2007, Australian Islamic College was raided by 28 fraud squad officers and ten investigators from the Department of Education, Science and Training investigations unit. [1] [2] Abdallah Saad Magar and the Principal Aziz Magdi were charged with fraud offences against the governments of Australia and Western Australia. [1] [3] The charges related to falsifying records to indicate that more students were attending the school than actually were and thereby obtaining money for the school to which they were not entitled. The amount that was alleged to have been obtained fraudulently was A$3.16 million. [3] [4] Both were found guilty in the District Court on 31 March 2010. [5] Abdallah Saad Magar appealed the conviction to the Supreme Court, however his application was denied. [6]

In June 2010, Australian Islamic College posted an article in Wake Up Call, issue 172, written by a year 12 student defending the misappropriation of funds. The article stated that "when a man does all this [fraud] for Islam in the western society, when he does it for the guidance of the Muslim children –I cannot call that fraud". [7]

See also

Related Research Articles

Dianella is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. It is within the local government area of the City of Stirling.

Cloverdale is a suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, 10 kilometres (6 mi) east of Perth's CBD in the City of Belmont.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Oats Street railway station</span> Railway station in Perth, Western Australia

Oats Street railway station is a Transperth suburban railway station in Western Australia, located in the Perth suburbs of Carlisle and East Victoria Park. The station is served by the Armadale and Thornlie lines and has connections to bus services as well.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thornlie railway station</span> Railway station in Perth, Western Australia

Thornlie railway station is on the Transperth network. It is the terminus of the Thornlie line, a spur of the Armadale Line, seventeen kilometres (11 mi) from Perth Station serving the suburb of Thornlie, Western Australia. Under construction is the Thornlie-Cockburn Link which will link to Cockburn Central railway station along the Mandurah line via two new stations, Nicholson Road railway station and Ranford Road railway station.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thornlie, Western Australia</span> Suburb of Perth, Western Australia

Thornlie is a large residential suburb of Perth, the capital city of Western Australia, located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south-east of the city's central business district. It is a part of the City of Gosnells local government area. The Canning River runs through the northern side of the suburb. Since the 1950s the suburb has developed in approximately five stages; north-east Thornlie (1950s–60s), south Thornlie (1970s–80s), Crestwood (1970s), Castle Glen (1980s) and Forest Lakes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Welshpool, Western Australia</span> Suburb of Perth, Western Australia

Welshpool is an inner southeastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located mostly within the City of Canning and partially within the Town of Victoria Park.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Canning Vale, Western Australia</span> Suburb of Perth, Western Australia

Canning Vale is a southern suburb of Perth, 22 km (13.7 mi) from the central business district. Its local government areas are the City of Canning and the City of Gosnells.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bedford, Western Australia</span> Suburb of Perth, Western Australia

Bedford is a suburb 6 kilometres (4 mi) north-east of the central business district (CBD) of Perth, the capital of Western Australia. Named after Frederick Bedford, the Governor of Western Australia from 1903 to 1909, the suburb is within the City of Bayswater local government area. It is predominantly a low density residential suburb consisting of single-family detached homes, with clusters of commercial buildings along Beaufort Street, Grand Promenade and Walter Road.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kewdale, Western Australia</span> Suburb of Perth, Western Australia

Kewdale is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia within the City of Belmont. Kew Street was one of the first roads in this district, hence the naming of the suburb.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Floreat, Western Australia</span> Suburb of Perth, Western Australia

Floreat is a residential suburb 8 kilometres (5 mi) west-northwest of the central business district of Perth, the capital of Western Australia. It is bordered on Underwood Avenue, Selby Street, Cromarty Road and Durston Road. It is the head of the Town of Cambridge, which has its municipal offices and library in the suburb. The name of the suburb stems from the Latin word for "flourish" or "prosper", which is also the motto of the City of Perth, of which Floreat was a part when it was first built.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Roe Highway</span> Highway in Perth, Western Australia

Roe Highway is a 35-kilometre-long (22 mi) limited-access highway and partial freeway in Perth, Western Australia, linking Kewdale with the city's north-eastern and south-western suburbs. The northern terminus is at Reid Highway and Great Northern Highway in Middle Swan, and the southern terminus is with Murdoch Drive at the Kwinana Freeway interchange in Bibra Lake. Roe Highway, in addition to Reid Highway, form State Route 3, a partial ring road around the outer suburbs of the Perth metropolitan area. Roe Highway also forms part of National Highway 94 from Great Eastern Highway Bypass to Great Eastern Highway, and National Highway 95 from Great Eastern Highway to Great Northern Highway.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Belmont City College</span> Public co-educational high school in Australia

Belmont City College is a comprehensive independent public co-educational high school, located in Belmont, 6 kilometres (4 mi) east of Perth, Western Australia. Opening in 1957, the school's catchment area covers most of the City of Belmont and the eastern part of the Town of Victoria Park. As of Semester 1, 2020 the college had an enrolment of 929 students between Year 7 and Year 12. In Semester 1, 2011, 69 students enrolled were Indigenous Australians.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">West Croydon, South Australia</span> Suburb of Adelaide, South Australia

West Croydon is an inner western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wesley College, Perth</span> Independent, day & boarding school in South Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Wesley College, informally known as Wesley, is an independent, day and boarding school for boys and girls, situated in South Perth, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Islamic College of South Australia</span> School

The Islamic College of South Australia was in West Croydon, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is now a campus of the Australian Islamic College and renamed Australian Islamic College, Adelaide.. It offered classes from kindergarten to year 12.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dianella Secondary College</span> High school in Perth, Western Australia,

Dianella Secondary College is a public co-educational high day school, located in Dianella in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. It teaches years 7 to 12 in the Australian education system, and has around 600 students.

Lesmurdie Senior High School is a public co-educational high school in the Perth suburb of Lesmurdie, Western Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lynwood Senior High School</span> School in Australia

Lynwood Senior High School is an independent public co-educational specialist high day school in the City of Canning, located in the Perth suburb of Parkwood, Western Australia.

Al-Ameen College is an independent Islamic co-educational primary and secondary day school, located in Langford, a southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bob Hawke College</span> School in Perth, Western Australia

Bob Hawke College is a public high school in the City of Subiaco and situated in the suburb of Subiaco, Western Australia. The school opened on 3 February 2020 with 250 Year 7 students, and is scheduled to expand to 1,500–2,000 students from Years 7 to 12 in 2025.

References

  1. 1 2 Taylor, Paige; Gosch, Elizabeth (31 January 2007). "Police raid leading Islamic college". The Australian . Archived from the original on 20 December 2018. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  2. ↑ "Police raid Islamic college following allegations of serious fraud against the federal government". Australian News Commentary. 19 October 2013. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  3. 1 2 Buckley-Carr, Alana (28 June 2008). "Islamic school on fraud charges". The Australian . Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  4. ↑ Sonti, Chalpat (27 June 2008). "Islamic College trio charged over $3m fraud". WAtoday. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  5. ↑ Campbell, Kate (31 March 2010). "Islamic college leaders guilty of fraud". The West Australian. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  6. ↑ Taylor, Belle (27 May 2011). "College fraud appeal denied". The West Australian. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  7. ↑ Mowlavizada, Husna (28 July 2010). "Speech by Current Year 12 Student". Wake up Call. Australian Islamic College (172): 6. Retrieved 4 May 2021– via Issuu.

Further reading

Map all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap

Download coordinates as:

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.