The Equality and Human Rights Commission has criticised the laws that allow state funded faith schools in Britain to religiously discriminate in the recruitment and employment of teachers and urged that they be changed.
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has criticised the laws that allow state funded faith schools in Britain to religiously discriminate in the recruitment and employment of teachers and urged that they be changed.
A UK Government commissioned integration report has urged that changes be made to education policy to tackle segregation between schools.
A new Education Policy Institute report concludes that the difference in attainment between faith and non-faith schools can be explained by the characteristics of pupils that are admitted, and that lifting the 50% religious selection cap at faith Free Schools would undermine social mobility and not raise educational standards.
The Accord Coalition has commented on findings from the latest Catholic school census that reveal state funded Catholic schools continue to admit a fraction of pupils from a non-Catholic background.
A series of rulings from the Office of the Schools Adjudicator have found that Catholic school admission policies which reward places to children from families that have obtained the Certificate of Catholic Practice are breaking the School Admissions Code.
