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Posted: Tue, 03 Dec 2019
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Parents have said two state-funded Jewish schools pressurised them to opt their children out of relationships and sex education.
Posted: Fri, 29 Nov 2019
Don’t remove right to withdraw from RE, NSS urges Welsh ministers
The NSS has urged the Welsh government not to remove parents' right to withdraw children from religious education.
Posted: Thu, 28 Nov 2019
NSS welcomes decision to prevent anti-LGBT protests outside school
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Posted: Tue, 26 Nov 2019
Islamic school segregating by sex despite ruling it’s unlawful
Inspectors have found an independent Islamic school segregating children by sex, two years after the practice was ruled unlawful.
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The requirement to hold collective worship in schools is crumbling and not worth saving
Posted: Thu, 05 Dec 2019
Megan Manson studies the main UK-wide parties' election manifestos – and says religion will continue to be a dividing force in UK politics during the next parliament.
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Posted: Thu, 28 Nov 2019
Politicians need to end their fetishisation of faith schools and face the fact that a religiously divided education system is unfit for the future, argues Stephen Evans.
Why the blind spot when it comes to faith schools?
Posted: Fri, 22 Nov 2019
The Welsh government is considering removing the parental right to withdraw from religious education. Alastair Lichten argues that despite potential benefits, reforms don't go far enough to justify ending...
This isn’t the time to end the right to withdraw from RE in Wales
Posted: Thu, 14 Nov 2019
A report has called into question religious control over the curriculum and ethos of Northern Irish schools. Alastair Lichten says it should prompt a re-evaluation of the segregated, inefficient system...
Education in NI shouldn’t be a tug of war between religious interests
Posted: Fri, 25 Oct 2019