Tags: Faith Schools
Joint faith school campus brings segregation under one roof
A new £17m campus which houses Catholic and Jewish faith schools together has opened in East Renfrewshire.
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Government plans mass expansion of CofE faith schools across England
The Department for Education hopes to open at least another 140 Church of England schools in the next five years,... Read More »
100% faith-based admissions leads to increased levels of segregation, says schools inspectorate
The chief inspector of schools Amanda Spielman has criticised Government proposals to allow some faith schools to... Read More »
Ofsted head criticises segregation as Islamic school is taken over
The chief inspector of the schools inspectorate Ofsted has spoken out against gender segregation in mixed-sex schools.... Read More »
Sex education: schools’ religious ethos may ‘limit’ pupils’ knowledge of LGBT facts and contraception
More than 50 faith leaders have warned that schools' ability to teach relationships and sex education (RSE) through... Read More »
Vetting in Scottish Catholic schools 'putting off non-Catholic teachers'
The leader of Scotland's biggest teachers' union has said fewer non-Catholics are teaching in the country's Catholic... Read More »
NSS calls for end to state funded ‘religiosity inspections’ in schools
The National Secular Society has called for Ofsted to inspect religious education in faith schools after research... Read More »
Catholic Church backs down on ‘faith certificates’ for pupils
The Catholic Church has dropped plans to take the Government to court in order to give priests the right to arbitrarily... Read More »
Church to gain influence over nine secular schools in Northumberland
Concerns have been raised over plans for nine community schools in Northumberland to join with one Church of England... Read More »
New poll finds huge opposition to Government’s plans for more discriminatory faith schools
Government plans to allow new faith schools to discriminate on religious grounds by selecting all of their pupils... Read More »
Four religious representatives appointed to Hebrides education committee
The Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, the local authority for the Hebrides, has appointed four religious figures to its education... Read More »
NSS rejects Church’s call for end to RE right to withdraw, without meaningful reform
The National Secular Society has said that Religious Education must be fundamentally reformed before the existing... Read More »
New faith schools announced in latest round of free schools
A number of new faith schools have been approved to open by the Department for Education (DfE) in the twelfth wave... Read More »
“No evidence” that denominational schools are academically superior, study finds
A report by the Institute for Public Policy Research has found that there is "no evidence" to suggest Scotland's denominational... Read More »
Sadiq Khan: Imperative that pupils from different backgrounds mix at school
Sadiq Khan has hit out at the Government's plans to allow total religiously-selective admissions in new free schools... Read More »
Report confirms deep ethnic divisions in English faith schools
A new report, Understanding school segregation in England, has set out the extent of ethnic and religious division... Read More »
“Unacceptable” for Ultra-Orthodox faith schools to shun children with transgender parents, says DfE
The Department for Education is to investigate faith schools implicated in the ostracisation of children of transgender... Read More »
Keep education and religion separate to boost science attainment, study suggests
A study by academics at Leeds Beckett University and the University of Missouri has found a strong "negative correlation"... Read More »
LibDems back phasing out religious discrimination in school admissions
The LibDems have backed a series of reforms to the role of religion in the UK education system, in a motion approved... Read More »
Christian group warns of “hidden dangers” in challenging homophobia
A fundamentalist group which provides support to Accelerated Christian Education schools in the UK is hosting a discussion... Read More »
MP calls for Scotland to embrace a secular education system
Tommy Sheppard MP has called for Scotland to move towards a secular education system and expressed his hope that secularist... Read More »
Commons passes ‘mandatory’ sex education, but includes religious opt outs
The passage of an amendment to the Children and Social Work Bill means that Relationships and Sex Education will become... Read More »
Sex education reforms: faith schools to keep special exemptions
The National Secular Society has welcomed moves to make sex and relationship education statutory, but urged the Government... Read More »
Fresh ‘Trojan Horse’ claims plague Oldham schools
The Sunday Times has reported on allegations of two new cases of attempts to foist a strict Islamic ethos on non-religious... Read More »
Success! Gwynedd Council rethinks plan to impose church school on community
Plans for a new 'super school' in Bala to have a religious designation have been shelved following widespread opposition... Read More »
