Tags: Faith schools
Bill submitted to Scottish Parliament that would abolish religious representatives on education committees
An independent Member of the Scottish Parliament, John Finnie, has given his support to a campaign to remove the legal... Read More »
Secularists urge Scottish Government to remove non-elected religious reps from school boards
Edinburgh Secular Society (ESS) has lodged a petition with the Scottish Parliament calling for an end to the legal... Read More »
Ofsted report finds Al-Madinah school “dysfunctional”
A damning Ofsted report has found the Al-Madinah Muslim free school in Derby to be "dysfunctional" and "inadequate"... Read More »
Jewish faith school caught censoring questions on science exam papers
A state funded Jewish faith school has been caught blacking out questions on science exam papers.
The Oxford, Cambridge... Read More »
Al-Madinah Muslim free school threatened with closure
Derby's Al-Madinah Muslim free school has been ordered to take "swift action" to address concerns over the way it... Read More »
Controversial Muslim free school closed by Ofsted
The Muslim free school at the centre of controversy over the past few weeks has been closed after school inspection... Read More »
Somerset council proposing to end bus privileges for children attending faith schools
Somerset County Council is proposing to reduce subsidies for transport to faith schools in order to bring them into... Read More »
Opinion poll shows big opposition to faith schools
A new, large scale opinion poll shows that a majority of people in Great Britain are against Government funding of... Read More »
More revelations about the Derby Muslim free school
More revelations have been revealed by The Sunday Times about the Al-Madinah school in Derby — Britain's first... Read More »
Non-Muslim women teachers being forced to wear hijabs at Derby free school
The Derby Telegraph is reporting that a Muslim free school that was set up as being "based on Muslim principles, but... Read More »
Thurrock is latest council to charge for transport to faith schools
Thurrock Council in Essex is the latest to decide that it will no longer fund transport for pupils attending faith... Read More »
Schools adjudicator rejects religious discrimination complaint over community school admissions
The Office of the Schools Adjudicator has rejected a complaint concerning a non-religiously designated academy in... Read More »
Mother-of-two furious as one son gets free transport to Catholic school while the other doesn’t
The mother of two boys attending a Catholic school in Durham says she was told by the council that the younger of... Read More »
Belgium: State funding to be withdrawn from religious schools that fail to teach mandatory curriculum
New Belgian regulations that compel religious schools to teach the country's mandatory curriculum in full have been... Read More »
Leeds Council’s decision to cut free transport to religious schools survives challenge
Leeds City Council has seen off an attempt by opposition councillors to derail its plans to cut free transport for... Read More »
Oldham Council ordered to hand over land to ‘faith sensitive’ free school
Councillors in Oldham have reacted angrily to a ruling from the Department for Education ordering them to hand over... Read More »
Edinburgh secularists challenge religious interference in schools
Edinburgh Secular Society has published full details of all 91 unelected religious representatives sitting on the... Read More »
Extremism fears prompt Government to scupper plans for Islamic free school
The Department for Education has scuppered plans for an Islamic free school in Halifax after alarm was raised over... Read More »
Wirral latest council to cut free transport to religious schools
Wirral council is the latest to make cuts to free transport for pupils attending religious schools.
The Council hopes... Read More »
Government has a “duty” to provide Catholic Education, says Archbishop
One of the Vatican's most senior clerics has used a visit to Scotland to reinforce the message that the provision... Read More »
US President criticises faith schools during Northern Ireland visit
The US President, Barack Obama, has condemned 'faith schools' as 'divisive'' during a speech to an audience of young... Read More »
Evolution “problematic” for Orthodox Jewish ‘faith schools’
Government plans to place greater emphasis on evolution in biology classes as part of its proposals to reform GCSE... Read More »
Rethink ordered over discriminatory school transport cuts
A controversial plan by Flintshire Council to cut funding for transport to faith schools for pupils unable to prove... Read More »
Religious discrimination against teachers challenged in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland's biggest employer of teachers in Catholic schools has called for the scrapping of legislation that... Read More »
Hull council latest to scrap free pupil transport to religious schools
Hull City Council is to cease discretionary funding transport for pupils attending "faith schools" from September... Read More »
