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faith schools

November 27, 2020

Church of England warned that religious selection of pupils can be racially discriminatory

Indirect racial discrimination leads to marginalised families accessing poorer performing schools and thus inhibits the life chances of their children, says the Accord Coalition.
October 2, 2020

Equality law failing to protect people from faith-based discrimination, says report

A new report has warned that equality law is failing to protect the non-religious and members of religious minorities from discrimination.
March 12, 2020

First fully selective faith school in nearly a decade to be fully state funded

The school in Peterborough , which is due to be the first new state funded school in England in over a decade that can operate a fully discriminatory admissions policy, is set to be entirely funded by the taxpayer.
November 1, 2019

New research 'busts faith school academic excellence myth'

Researchers find religious schools’ performance scores reduce substantially once the background of their pupils is taken into account.
June 14, 2019

Government warns independent faith schools over sex segregation

Two independent faith schools which segregate children by sex and one which encourages girls to enter "caring professions" have been warned by the government.
January 28, 2019

League tables 'punish and reward wrong schools', new analysis shows

Secondary school league tables "punish and reward the wrong schools" by failing to take pupil background into account, according to new research from the University of Bristol.
January 10, 2019

Humanists UK urges Government to stand firm on LGBT teaching

A father has said that teaching his children about LGBT issues is a breach of his human rights.
December 29, 2018

Government criticised for 'trying to brush over inequality caused by faith school discrimination'

The Accord Coalition for Inclusive Education has criticised the government for the partiality of its equality impact assessment and its consequent decision to go ahead with financial support for the creation of new voluntary aided faith schools.
October 17, 2018

Study fnds reform of faith schools would better serve pupils and society

A new investigation has concluded the legal and policy framework around faith schools in England is overly deferential towards parental choice and gives too little consideration to the interests of individual pupils and wider society.
October 11, 2018

Coalition of academics calls for end to collective worship in state schools

A coalition of leading UK academics has called for an end to collective worship in English state schools, arguing that all children need to be given the freedom to make up their own minds on the merits of particular religious beliefs.