29 April 2011- Canberra, Melbourne and now Sydney's turn for new ...

The President of Muslims Australia  (AFIC), Mr Ikebal Patel  accompanied by the Vice President, Mr Hafez Kassem proudly opened two new schools in Sydney, the Malek Fahd  Beaumont Hills campus  and Malek Fahd Hoxton Park campus on the first school day of second term. The two new schools will cater for the ever-increasing demand for enrolment as evident in the extremely long waiting lists at the prestigious  Malek Fahd Islamic School in Greenacre.

 Mr Patel said, “Muslims Australia’s goal is to  provide students access to best practice educational resources .  A balanced education is the  first step in equipping our children to maximise their educational abilities and talents to become  useful, productive, contributing  members of the Australian society. Graduates of our schools are now serving as Engineers, plumbers, doctors, nurses, lawyers and pharmacists and many other  trades and professions. The continued and  exemplary high achievements of students at our existing schools is an incentive for prospective students to emulate at the new schools.”

 Mr Patel further stated that Muslims Australia’s commitment to excellence in education is second to none as evidenced by the consistent position of Malek Fahd Islamic School amongst the top nine to fifteen schools in NSW and ACT over the last six years  and similar standing of the Islamic College of Brisbane and now emulated by the Islamic Colleges of South Australia and Langford Islamic College. The NAPLAN results of all the schools were outstanding with the Islamic School of Canberra being the stand out performer in Canberra topping most subjects with only six years of operations.

 “My team and I are humbled and honoured to the see the fruits of our labour, in terms of not only the academic  and professional achievements of our past students of Muslims  Australia (AFIC) schools but also their sporting and community involvement, both at school and on graduation. We now look forward to similar successes at the Islamic School of Canberra, the Islamic College of Melbourne which commenced classes in January this year and our two newest schools, Malek Fahd Beaumont Hills and Malek Fahd Hoxton Park”. The community of Blacktown and Liverpool are encouraged to take advantage of early enrolment before “No Vacancy” signs start appearing at the school as has been the case for the last eight years in the Malek Fahd Islamic School Greenacre campus, said Mr Patel.

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