Tags: School admissions
Religious privilege in equality law must end, NSS tells EHRC
Equality and Human Rights Commission should focus on religious discrimination in schools and employment, says NSS.... Read More »
Segregation higher in areas with more faith schools, report finds
Worse outcomes for disadvantaged pupils due to segregation in schools, research shows
NSS raises faith-based school admissions at UN Human Rights Council
NSS calls for an end to religious selection and mandatory worship in state schools.
NSS welcomes plan to tackle unregistered schools in new bill
NSS welcomes new duties and powers to end unregistered schools in bill but says plans must go further to ensure fairness... Read More »
Scrap Tory plans for faith schools, NSS urges Government
New government should abandon plans to expand religious discrimination in admissions and faith based special academies,... Read More »
Jewish manifesto demands defence of infant circumcision
Document also calls for defence of non-stun slaughter and greater freedoms for faith schools to discriminate in admissions.... Read More »
NSS tells DfE: faith selection in schools must be ended, not extended
NSS strongly opposes plans to scrap 50% cap on faith-based admissions at free schools in response to Government consultation.... Read More »
Former Ofsted chief to speak at NSS conference
"Muscular liberalism" advocate Amanda Spielman to speak about religious interference in education at Secularism 2024.... Read More »
Religious privilege in schools fosters inequality, NSS tells Ofsted
Ofsted should recognise how faith based admissions may affect school performance, NSS says.
NSS: Catholic Church donations to minister raise "serious" concerns
Donations from Catholic Church to Gillian Keegan calls decision to remove limits on religious school admissions into... Read More »
NSS asks minister to correct statements on faith school cap
Minister's claim that plans to remove limits on faith-based admissions won't affect existing schools is inaccurate,... Read More »
NSS joins open letter against faith school discrimination
Education experts, politicians, religious leaders and public figures unite to call on Education Secretary to keep... Read More »
NSS urges PM to retain cap on faith-based admissions
Supporters of inclusive schools encouraged to tell MPs to protect the 50% cap.
NSS alarmed at plan to let new schools select all pupils based on faith
Faith-based academies could be free to select all pupils based on religion within months, sources say.
Councils say faith schools disadvantaging looked after children
Evidence increasing that faith schools disadvantage those with greatest need.
NSS address urges UN to call for government action on human rights
Religious privilege is undermining rights of UK citizens, NSS tells UN committee.
Protect human rights from religious imposition, NSS urges UN
NSS tells UN Human Rights Committee religious privilege is undermining rights in education, healthcare and around... Read More »
Faith schools “most socially selective”, report finds
Faith schools admit disproportionately fewer pupils on free school meals, says Sutton Trust.
Faith schools’ admissions criteria found in breach of regulations
Schools highlighted by the National Secular Society for coercive and controlling behaviour found to be non-compliant... Read More »
NSS urges government to keep cap on faith-based admissions
Community cohesion and rights of children must come before religious interests, NSS tells schools minister
Faith primary schools admit fewer SEND children, research finds
Study: CofE and Catholic primaries less likely than community schools to admit children with special educational needs... Read More »
NSS calls on Labour to “think again” on faith schools
Labour's plan to leave the faith school system unchanged risks perpetuating injustice, unfairness and discrimination,... Read More »
Religious selection in schools challenged in parliament
Parliamentarians have spoken out against state schools which religiously discriminate against children in their admissions.... Read More »
End faith-based selection in schools, UN committee urges
Schools in England should be prevented from religious discrimination in their admissions, a United Nations committee... Read More »
Government agrees to include NSS findings in school admissions review
The government has said it will consider National Secular Society research on faith schools as part of its next review... Read More »
