The Government's proposal announced today to scrap the faith selection cap at faith free schools provides a green light to ethnic ghettoisation, warns Accord.
The Government's proposal announced today to scrap the faith selection cap at faith free schools provides a green light to ethnic ghettoisation, warns Accord.
Birmingham City Council's Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education (SACRE) has been accused of buckling to sectarian pressure by excluding a Muslim group from joining its number.
Rabbis from a Hasidic Jewish sect in the United States have instructed its schools to help uphold a prohibition on its women members attending university.
The databank of research into policy and practice of faith schools that the Accord Coalition maintains has been updated today with a range of new and rigorous pieces of information.
Developments in the last few weeks have provided a microcosm of some of the tensions that currently exist between those who misapply religious arguments to try and deny or delay when schools teach Sex and Relationships Education, and the popular support that exists for the thorough provision of the subject.
