faith schools UK's state-run CofE schools plan to 'double number of children who are Christian disciples' The UK education system is not secular, and the Church of England is looking to schools as a recruitment pool for new believers.
faith schools Government announces more than £2 million in funding enabling religious take-over of yet more schools Man, the UK government sucks. Big time. This is from Humanists UK: Humanists UK has expressed alarm about the potential for a religious power-grab in schools with and without a religious character after the UK Government announced it is allocating more than £2 million in funding to increase the number
Education Faith Schools in the UK: An Ongoing Battle Education in the UK is very different to what it is in the US for a whole host of reasons, one being the historical ties to religion and education. Though we are culturally a far more "secular" country, institutionally, we are not. Here, I will relate three articles
Education Number of Pupils at CofE Schools more than Entire ‘Worshipping Community’ The UK education system is not secular in the way that the Us system is, even though we are a more "secular" country. Something like 37% of our primary schools are faith schools, often only nominally in name (it depends on the head teachers, Senior Leadership Teams, governors
faith schools Morals Without Religion - Alice Roberts I like Prof. Alice Roberts. She is a scientist and author who is excellent at communicating science on TV and other media and, now, humanism. She is relatively newly appointed to the President of Humanists UK. She courted controversy courtesy of the Times and other right-wing newspapers when, in an
BHA Research Busts Faith School Academic Excellence Myth I have previously written several articles laying out the problems with making the claim (particularly in the UK context) that faith schools are better for one reason or another: Are Faith Schools Better? An Issue of Correlation vs Causation Taxpayers Effectively Completely Fund Faith Schools ‘Faith’ schools three times more
faith schools Taxpayers Effectively Completely Fund Faith Schools I am going to let you into a little secret now that's is not a secret because it is public knowledge but is a secret because apparently, no one seems to know it. And when I say no one seems to know it, I mean no one seems
faith schools School admissions appeal system worsens inequalities and increases social segregation, new report finds This unsurprising news is from Humanists UK. I will be writing something connected to this later today that people are oddly completely unaware of: The chances of parents getting a child into their first choice of school via the appeals process ‘varies considerably by family background, ethnicity, and pupil attainment
Education Are Faith Schools Better? An Issue of Correlation vs Causation... I have recently been talking about faith schools here at ATP, as concerns the UK and Ireland. Ireland recently announced that they are getting rid of admissions policies that dictate access to schools based on the religious denomination of the children applying. There is this general opinion in the UK
faith schools Ireland scraps religious selection in Catholic primary school admissions This may not be a big deal for people across the pond, but this is massive for people in the UK dealing with issues concerning secularism and school admissions. This sort of policy has blighted the UK's education system for time immemorial and to see this volte-face in
faith schools New research finds pretending to be religious is most common form of school admissions cheating I quite often report on faith schooling and its effect on the education system in the UK. We have a non-separation-of-church-and-state situation in a country that is far less religious than, say, the States. Faith schools are often seen as better schools in terms of discipline and attainment, but as
faith schools Religious Discrimination: Teacher Wins Tribunal After Unfair Dismissal by Faith School This is something very close to my heart as I worked in a faith school for some 10 years and have some interesting things I would love to say on the matter (but, alas, can't). In a generic sense, it is amazing that, in this day and age,
faith schools Creationist State School Teaches ‘Universe is 5,778 Years Old,’ Forbids Male/Female Contact This is a couple of weeks ago and comes from the Humanists UK. I am surprised that such a thing has been able to happen in a state school. This is why religious schooling should be shelved. A state faith school in London is teaching its children that ‘the age
faith schools Report into England’s third largest academy chain raises fresh questions over faith ethos academies This concerns something very close to my heart, having previously worked in a faith school for almost a decade, and being heavily involved in education, including on a political and philosophical basis. Thi comes from Humanists UK: The status of ‘faith ethos’ academies has been brought back into focus this
faith schools Afua Hirsch on Faith Schools This is SPOT on. I have been directly involved with the faith school system, having worked for one for ten years at one point. I cannot agree with this more. You may need to disable ad blockers to see this...
BHA ‘Faith’ schools three times more socially selective than others, new research finds (again) This unsurprising, yet important find, is reported by the British Humanist Association: English ‘faith’ schools are the most socially selective category of comprehensive school, and more than three times more socially selective than schools with no religious character, a new report from the Sutton Trust has found. The Sutton Trust
BHA Illegal ‘faith’ schools reportedly given more than £100,000 in public funding From the British Humanist Association: Unregistered ‘faith’ schools suspected by the Government as operating illegally have received more than £100,000 in public funding, it has been reported. Freedom of information requests submitted by The Independent found that £116,750 of Big Lottery Fund money has been awarded to seven
Education Fundamentalist Christian private schools downgraded by Ofsted for failing to promote British values This is a timely piece, since I was only talking about these schools recently in sharing a articles concerning the work of fellow Patheos blogger Jonny Scaramanga. This is from the British Humanist Association: A group of fundamentalist Christian private schools in England have been criticised by Ofsted inspectors and
Education Department for Education ordered to amend ‘misleading’ faith school figures by UK Statistics Authority following BHA complaint From the British Humanist Association: The Department for Education (DfE) has been forced to amend its education green paper by the UK Statistics Authority, following a complaint made by the British Humanist Association (BHA) over the ‘misleading’ figures it presents on the impact of religious selection at ‘faith’ schools. The
Education Education Policy Institute: ‘faith schools’ academically no better; increasing them bad for social mobility The British Humanist Association: December 2nd, 2016 In a new report published today, the Education Policy Institute has found that there is no academic difference between state religious schools (‘faith schools’) in England and others once pupils’ backgrounds are taken into account. It also found that faith schools take significantly
BHA Peers accuse Government of ‘playing with fire’ over plans for unlimited religious selection in schools From the British Humanist Association: Members of the House of Lords have strongly criticised the Government’s plans to remove the 50% cap on religious selection in new English ‘faith’ schools, as part of a parliamentary debate about the Government’s new grammar schools proposals. Peers raised serious concerns about
Education Government approves yet more religious free schools just days after faith school admissions announcement From the BHA: Take action! The principle of integrated education is under attack like never before in this country following the Government’s announcement that it will introduce a new generation of state schools that can religiously discriminate against children for all of their places. We are encouraging everyone to
BHA UK Govt Looking to Give Faith Schools 100% Selection on Faith Theresa May is turning out to be a really bad PM, regressively appealing to the fringe right in the party, some of whom she has put into leadership positions in her cabinet (Liam Fox and David Davis, anybody?). She has decided that social mobility is just something for liberal lefties,
Education 70 Rabbis challenge Chief Rabbi over religious selection in school admissions School admissions have been a bone of contention of mine for a long time, especially having once worked in the faith school sector for about a decade. The UK is very different to places like the US. Here, in certain sectors, some 40% of our state schools are faith schools.
BHA BHA: Childhoods stolen, adulthoods ruined: we expose illegal 'faith' schools in London The BHA reports (which has been taken up in the UK by national media outlets): An investigation carried out by the British Humanist Association (BHA) has revealed that a number of unregistered strictly Orthodox Charedi Jewish schools in north London – which the Government is aware are operating illegally – are nonetheless
