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Islamophobic and anti-semitic parents are removing children from school RE lessons.
There needs to be an urgent debate on the education of Muslim pupils in British schools, but this seems impossible in the current climate.
Allowing new faith schools to religiously select 100% of their pupils is not only problematic in terms of social integration, it is simply unfair.
Good results and issues of identity drive attendance of Jewish schools – it’s not all down to religious beliefs.
Local education authorities have mediated the RE syllabus for decades. Now, there might be a free-for-all.
A new report has set out a vision of diversity for British schools – including repeal of the law for compulsory Christian assembly.
Dubbing Islamic supplementary schools as incubators for extremism and intolerance could be counter-productive.
Including faith schools as part of a broader network is a surer way of bringing communities closer together.
On BBC Question Time on February 5, Labour’s shadow education minister Tristram Hunt made a remark appearing to link weak, unqualified teachers to religious education, specifically Catholic schooling provided…
The Durham Free School is to have its government funding removed in a snap decision made by Nicky Morgan, the secretary of state for education. The move comes after a damning Ofsted report which found…
The results of seven school inspections in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets have brought a fresh wave of allegations that some schools are not providing a broad and balanced curriculum for their pupils…
The Trojan Horse extremism affair that hit a group of Birmingham schools this summer and the ongoing inquiries into it, have raised suspicions among Muslim parents, teachers, and pupils in the UK. News…
The relationship between religion and education is a crucial issue for the UK. Historically, the British school system owes a lot of its shape and purpose to early work by churches and religious groups…
It would take a “bold secretary of state” to argue for more faith schools in Britain, wrote Newsnight’s policy editor Chris Cook commenting on the so-called Trojan Horse storm about Islamist extremists…
Recent reports have suggested that Section 28-style bans on the promotion of homosexuality are on the rise in UK schools, causing concern among teachers’ unions. Based on research by the British Humanist…
It is believed that at least 25 schools in Birmingham are now being investigated in response to allegations of what the media and city council are routinely describing as “takeover” bids by “hardline Muslims…
The closure of the secondary section of the Al-Madinah free school in Derby will be celebrated by those who oppose free schools and what are euphemistically labelled “faith” schools. Whatever the stated…
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Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University
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Emeritus Professor of Education, University of Derby
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Professor in Public Policy and Management, The Open University
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SOLSTICE Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Religious Education, Edge Hill University
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Professor of Sociology, University of Nottingham
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Professor of the History of Religion and Education, University of Worcester
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Reader in Education, University of Leicester
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Professor of Sociology, Aston University
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Associate Professor, School of Criminology, University of Leicester
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Associate Dean for Postgraduate Research and Deputy Director of the University of Exeter Doctoral College, University of Exeter
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Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, University of Navarra and Associate Fellow, Religions and Education Research Unit, University of Warwick
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Professor of Education, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and Founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, University of Bristol
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Research Fellow, Faith Schooling: Principles & Policies, University of Warwick
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Associate lecturer, The Open University
