Accord has welcomed comments from Pope Francis warning of the risk of education serving to distance groups from each other, and urging Catholic educators to avoid social selection.
Accord has welcomed comments from Pope Francis warning of the risk of education serving to distance groups from each other, and urging Catholic educators to avoid social selection.
Accord has highlighted a range of problems that are being caused to the supply of teachers by the current arrangements for Religious Education (RE), and faith schools religiously discriminating in the employment of their staff.
Another high profile report has questioned the arrangements around assemblies and daily worship in schools.
Catholic secondary schools in England have be required to teach Judaism as the non-Christian religion they must study in Religious Education at GCSE, meaning schools will undertake the least change necessary to comply with a new stipulation that schools study two religions in detail.
New findings about the pioneering Waterhead Academy have added further to the evidence base showing that ethnically mixed schools make a very strong contribution towards promoting better community cohesion.
