Tags: faith schools
NSS calls on equality body to promote inclusive education
The National Secular Society has called on the body which enforces Britain's equality laws to back an "inclusive and... Read More »
Council abandons review of discretionary faith school transport
The National Secular Society has criticised a council in north Wales for abandoning plans to review its provision... Read More »
NSS urges councils to resist religiously selective faith schools
The National Secular Society has urged councils to support inclusive schooling and not to open faith schools which... Read More »
NSS writes to councillors over discretionary faith school transport
The National Secular Society has urged councillors in Wrexham in north Wales to take a decision on transport to faith... Read More »
Independent Jewish school that censors resources warned by DfE
An independent Orthodox Jewish school in north London that prevents pupils from gaining GCSEs by censoring resources... Read More »
Most maintained rural primary schools are faith schools, data shows
The National Secular Society has again said the government should monitor faith-based impositions on school choice... Read More »
Faith schools significantly limit choice for many parents, NSS finds
Almost three in ten families in England live in areas where most or all of the local primary schools are faith-based,... Read More »
Two councils may cut preferential transport to faith schools
Councils in north Wales and Greater Manchester are considering cutting public funding for transport schemes which... Read More »
Adjudicator: faith schools may insist families are strictly religious
England's schools adjudicator has said it is "reasonable" for two state-funded Orthodox Jewish schools to expect the... Read More »
Government warnings for five failing independent faith schools
Three Islamic schools and two Jewish schools are among nine independent schools which were issued with warning notices... Read More »
Government commits funding to new 100% selective faith schools
The government has announced funding for a wave of new voluntary aided faith schools, which can select all of their... Read More »
C of E services for schools expand by 56% in four years
The National Secular Society has said a rapid rise in the number of children being taken to Church of England school... Read More »
Scottish government commits to LGBT-inclusive education
The National Secular Society has told the Scottish government that it must not allow religious groups to undermine... Read More »
Don't let faith schools distort sex education, warns NSS
The National Secular Society has highlighted the risk that faith groups will continue to distort sex education in... Read More »
Government threatens Jewish schools’ “purity”, rabbi claims
A rabbi has called on Orthodox Jewish schools to resist requirements to teach evolution and about non-traditional... Read More »
New guidance supports teaching RSE and evolution to young Muslims
Pupils should be taught about evolution, art, and sexual relationships and no child should be forced to wear a hijab,... Read More »
Three independent faith schools still open after multiple failures
The National Secular Society has questioned why three independent faith schools remain open despite failing multiple... Read More »
Ten more independent faith schools issued warnings by DfE
An Islamic school that breached the Equality Act by treating boys and girls unequally was among 10 failing independent... Read More »
Let children make their own minds up about religion, says report
The National Secular Society has welcomed an academic report which calls on English state schools to raise children... Read More »
Ireland lifts discriminatory ‘baptism barrier’ in school admissions
The Irish government has stopped Catholic primary schools and primary schools which have spare capacity from discriminating... Read More »
Scottish Catholic schools to marginalise children who don’t pray
The National Secular Society has criticised a proposal to exclude children at Catholic schools in Scotland from nativity... Read More »
Replace RE with ‘religion and worldviews’, says commission
The National Secular Society has given a "qualified welcome" to a commission's recommendations to replace RE with... Read More »
NSS welcomes Lib Dem proposal to end faith schools in Scotland
The National Secular Society has welcomed a proposal by the Scottish Liberal Democrats to end sectarian schools by... Read More »
Scottish govt commits to faith schools despite religious decline
Scotland's education minister has told the National Secular Society his government has "no plans" to roll back religious... Read More »
Jewish school may place requirements on families, adjudicator rules
A Jewish state school is not breaching the school admissions code by requiring families not to wear leather or lycra,... Read More »
