Zahawi was born into a Kurdish family in Baghdad, Iraq. When he was eleven years old, during Saddam Hussein‘s early years in power, he and his family fled to the UK. His father, Hareth, is a businessman and a director of Balshore Investments. His grandfather Nadhem Abdel-Jalil al-Zahawi was the governor of the Central Bank of Iraq from 1959 to 1960 and Minister of Trade from 1960 to 1963...
Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi to consider plans to extend the school day
The new education secretary has pledged to look at lengthening the school day. Nadhim Zahawi told MPs there are some “excellent examples” of longer school hours that he will examine, before he urged all schools to ensure they move to the average school day length of 6.5 hours. It has been suggested an extension to the school day will help children prosper after the coronavirus pandemic and catch...