Faith school campaigners have appealed to the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales and the Church of England to issue guidance for its schools to not select pupils by faith to ensure they better serve children from deprived backgrounds.
Faith school campaigners have appealed to the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales and the Church of England to issue guidance for its schools to not select pupils by faith to ensure they better serve children from deprived backgrounds.
Accord has reaffirmed its call for greater safeguards to ensure that schools do not operate in narrow and exclusive ways after a week when politicians from the largest three Parties at Westminster have signalled a reconsideration of aspects of the current direction in education policy.
The winner of this year’s Accord Inclusivity Award has pioneered an approach to RE which improve pupils understanding of the nature of faith and belief as a real life experience
The Church of Scotland and the Humanist Society of Scotland have issued an historic joint call for the law requiring Religious Observance in Scottish schools to be replaced with a ‘Time for Reflection’ to make school assemblies ‘more inclusive and clearly not gatherings where one faith or belief system is promoted over another’.
The Avanti House School in Harrow, an all-through school which is the only Hindu school in Britain that teaches pupils at the secondary stage, has revealed plans this week for its secondary school section to relocate to a new site and massively expand. The proposal for the new 1,260 pupil capacity school is being...
