Accord has highlighted evidence showing the difference in the social and ability profile of pupils at faith and non-faith schools and its relationship with school standards.
Accord has highlighted evidence showing the difference in the social and ability profile of pupils at faith and non-faith schools and its relationship with school standards.
The Church of England’s education division has labelled compelling new research showing the extent to which its religiously selective schools are skewed towards serving the affluent, rather than the poor, as ‘wilful misrepresentation'.
Chair of the Accord Coalition, Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, has written a comment piece in this week’s Times Educational Supplement calling for an end to the legal exemptions that allow state funded faith schools to select pupils by faith.
The Fair Admissions Campaign has made available today a pioneering new online tool, mapping how religiously selective individual faith schools are and the social and ethnic inclusiveness of schools.
A survey from the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education has confirmed the decline in provision of Religious Education in schools in England.
