Tags: Faith Schools

Comprehensive sex and relationship education delayed till at least 2020

Comprehensive sex and relationship education delayed till at least 2020

Following mounting equivocation from DfE officials, and growing rumours, it has been confirmed that compulsory relationships... Read More »

Head of faith school that hired terrorist banned from teaching

Head of faith school that hired terrorist banned from teaching

The head of an Islamic faith school that hired the London Bridge terrorist attack ringleader has been banned from... Read More »

Church lobbies to make closing rural schools easier

Church lobbies to make closing rural schools easier

Secular school campaigners have called for the Church of England to "give up some control" where flexibility may save... Read More »

Study: faith schools’ entry policies are complex and inconsistent

Study: faith schools’ entry policies are complex and inconsistent

Faith schools' admissions policies are complex and difficult to navigate and the problem hurts parents from poorer... Read More »

Eleven inadequate independent faith schools facing closure

Eleven inadequate independent faith schools facing closure

Seven Christian and four Islamic schools were among 26 private schools served with warning notices in the latest round... Read More »

NSS welcomes plan to restrict LGBT ‘conversion therapy’

NSS welcomes plan to restrict LGBT ‘conversion therapy’

The National Secular Society has welcomed a government announcement that it will bring forward proposals to end the... Read More »

Mixed-sex schools shouldn’t segregate children, says DfE

Mixed-sex schools shouldn’t segregate children, says DfE

Mixed-sex schools in England should not generally separate pupils by sex or faith, the government has said.

In new... Read More »

Ofsted: Jewish school failing on safety, curriculum and tolerance

Ofsted: Jewish school failing on safety, curriculum and tolerance

Ofsted has deemed a state-funded Jewish school inadequate after finding it deliberately undermined pupils' safety,... Read More »

Scottish education union calls for entitlement to paid religious leave

Scottish education union calls for entitlement to paid religious leave

Scotland's oldest teaching union has passed a motion calling for teachers from non-Christian faiths to be given paid... Read More »

British public opposes religious influence in education, poll finds

British public opposes religious influence in education, poll finds

British adults are strongly opposed to religious influence in school admissions, assemblies and the teaching of Religious... Read More »

NSS says integration efforts should focus on common citizenship

NSS says integration efforts should focus on common citizenship

The National Secular Society has called on the government to treat citizens as individuals and to clamp down on the... Read More »

Parents protest imposition of religious status on Norfolk school

Parents protest imposition of religious status on Norfolk school

The National Secular Society has backed parents who are protesting against the merger of a non-religious school into... Read More »

Welsh faith schools will keep distorting sex education, NSS warns

Welsh faith schools will keep distorting sex education, NSS warns

Allowing Welsh faith schools to teach sex education through a religious lens will distort the subject and teach children... Read More »

NSS: guidance for independent schools “strikes the right balance”

NSS: guidance for independent schools “strikes the right balance”

The National Secular Society has broadly welcomed revisions to the Independent School Standards (ISS) which brings... Read More »

Ofsted: curriculum at Jewish school restricted pupils’ development

Ofsted: curriculum at Jewish school restricted pupils’ development

An independent faith school in north London is facing deregistration and may close after inspectors said it was reducing... Read More »

NSS: joint campus rows show need to secularise Scottish education

NSS: joint campus rows show need to secularise Scottish education

The National Secular Society has said calls for children to be segregated on joint campuses have "shown the need to... Read More »

Gov’t drops proposal to scrap 50% admissions cap – but plans discriminatory faith school expansion

Gov’t drops proposal to scrap 50% admissions cap – but plans discriminatory faith school expansion

The government has abandoned plans to lift the 50% cap on faith-based admissions to new free schools – but will... Read More »

DfE warned 12 more private faith schools over failures in one month

DfE warned 12 more private faith schools over failures in one month

The Department for Education warned 12 independent faith schools that they were failing to meet the standards expected... Read More »

Government plans to create 36 new religious free schools in England

Government plans to create 36 new religious free schools in England

The government plans to create 36 new faith schools in England as it rolls out its latest round of new free schools,... Read More »

NSS renews call to end faith schools’ ‘religiosity inspections’

NSS renews call to end faith schools’ ‘religiosity inspections’

The National Secular Society has asked the government to stop funding religious inspections of faith schools after... Read More »

Church forces school to close rather than join secular academy trust

Church forces school to close rather than join secular academy trust

A primary school in Surrey is to close after the local Church of England diocese refused to allow it to join a secular... Read More »

Most faith schools distorting sex education, NSS study finds

Most faith schools distorting sex education, NSS study finds

More than three-quarters of state-funded secondary faith schools in England are failing to teach Sex and Relationships... Read More »

NSS: government must listen to Greening on faith-based admissions

NSS: government must listen to Greening on faith-based admissions

The National Secular Society has said the government must "urgently rethink" plans to allow more discriminatory faith-based... Read More »

Lords committee: respect the law before “the values of others”

Lords committee: respect the law before “the values of others”

Public policy must put "respect for the law" before "respect for the values of others" and defend "the shared values... Read More »

NSS urges ‘no more faith schools’ as it launches national campaign

NSS urges ‘no more faith schools’ as it launches national campaign

The National Secular Society has launched a new national campaign dedicated to ending state-funded faith schools,... Read More »