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Posted: Thu, 24 Jun 2021
Northern Ireland's High Court has allowed a challenge to laws requiring confessional RE and collective worship in all schools.
Posted: Tue, 09 Mar 2021
Legislation which will substantially reform the teaching of religion and belief has passed its final parliamentary vote in Wales.
Posted: Wed, 09 Dec 2020
A bill which would replace religious education with a more pluralistic alternative in Wales will proceed to the next parliamentary stage....
Posted: Wed, 09 Dec 2020
The C of E's theological approach to RE has come to dominate the subject amid a lack of government leadership, research has found.
Posted: Thu, 03 Dec 2020
A majority of adults in Britain don't consider it important to teach religious studies at secondary school, according to a new poll.
RE has become a subject in search of a purpose. There are better approaches to learning about the diversity of beliefs, and better uses of time than using outdated legislation to perpetuate it, says Keith...
Posted: Tue, 17 Aug 2021
The Church of England's new evangelical missional strategy should lead us to question its entitlement to proselytise in schools, argues Stephen Evans.
Posted: Thu, 22 Jul 2021
Comments from Ofsted's chief inspector highlight the need to help schools resist efforts to shut down teaching which reactionary religious groups deem controversial, says Alastair Lichten.
Posted: Wed, 07 Jul 2021
A review has highlighted significant problems with the way RE is taught. Alastair Lichten argues that it shows the need to ask fundamental questions about the purpose of education about religion.
Posted: Wed, 02 Jun 2021
A new study of a widely-used set of RE resources illustrates the way powerful groups control the subject to accommodate the evangelical mission of the Church of England, says Chris Selway.
Posted: Thu, 17 Dec 2020