Tags: Faith Schools
Don’t ban women drivers – ban faith schools
In a pluralist and diverse society, it's an invitation to ignorance for children to be segregated by their parent's... Read More »
Let’s stop confusing education with religious inculcation
The blurring of the distinction between education and religious inculcation in British schools is preventing young... Read More »
Even the chief architect of the expansion of religious schools is now having doubts
With the public, of all faiths and none, increasingly recognising the problems caused by faith schools, NSS president... Read More »
GP Taylor: Why faith has no place in our schools
Many principled people of faith oppose religious privilege in state schools. Former Anglican priest GP Taylor makes... Read More »
Operation Christmas Child
Every year the National Secular Society is contacted by parents upset to discover that a festive charitable project... Read More »
Transport to faith schools: Local authorities shouldn't be subsidising religious segregation
A "hideous form of discrimination" or the justifiable removal of a religious privilege? NSS campaigns manager Stephen... Read More »
A contested subject: religious education and faith schools
Reports of a Cabinet row over plans to require faith schools to teach more than one religion at GCSE level show that... Read More »
Teachers shouldn’t be the victims of religious discrimination
The degree to which we tolerate discrimination against teachers in state-funded faith schools would be totally unacceptable... Read More »
It’s not only Islamists who have Trojan Horses
Those with a vested interest in the continuation of 'faith schools' have started their fight back against the growing... Read More »
A “religious ethos” is not why faith schools succeed – it’s selection that does it
Rather than a faith-based ethos, Terry Sanderson argues that it's selection that allows faith schools to outperform... Read More »
Yes, “faith schools” really are the problem
Politicians are in denial over the problems caused by "faith schools" and religious influence in education, argues... Read More »
Religious schools are the problem, not the answer
One could almost be tempted to say "Hallelujah" to the news that Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, has at last... Read More »
Government funding to creationist nurseries has to stop
The Government may prohibit schools from teaching creationism as scientific theory, but as Jenna Scaramanga argues,... Read More »
We must give up our faith in religious schools
If social integration is the aspiration, we should start in schools and remove faith schools' right to religious selection,... Read More »
Faith schools: whose education is it anyway?
Education policy and practice should focus more on children's independent interests and building a shared society... Read More »
The God question: A tale of two adverts
Alistair McBay examines the PR campaign behind an educational resource that seeks to bring creationism and intelligent... Read More »
The God Question – a Trojan horse for Intelligent Design
Intelligent Design is back in shiny new packaging, labelled as 'evidence based and balanced' and getting into the... Read More »
The Church of England’s unrelenting exploitation of the nation’s schools
The Church of England's intention is clear. State funded schools will be regarded as churches – and serve as... Read More »
A search for truth, or a trojan horse for religion in schools?
Alistair McBay questions the objectivity of a new educational resource that claims to "review, objectively and dispassionately,... Read More »
Job applications should not be a matter of faith
A teacher's perspective on why faith schools should not be able to select staff and students based on their religion.... Read More »
Research or propaganda? How the apologists for faith schools are fighting back
Faith schools have been getting a bit of a bad press lately. Despite the fact that successive Governments have encouraged... Read More »
Why is the state funding the indoctrination of children in schools with dangerous ideologies?
The Prime Minister, David Cameron, made a statement last week about the Nairobi shopping mall massacre which almost... Read More »
A secular society is the key
Teaching science to Jewish children is not the enemy of knowledge but the prerequisite of it, declared the Jewish... Read More »
Why are children being forced into faith schools?
By Stephen Evans, Campaigns Manager, National Secular Society
When primary school places were allocated in England... Read More »
Why so little openness in the establishment of these Sikh schools?
Guest post by John Hunt
Last month the local press reported that a Sikh free school "remains on course to open in Hounslow... Read More »
