religious instruction in schools.....
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Children should receive "religious instruction" from
imams and other preachers in state schools as part of a
radical overhaul of faith in education, teachers have
said. The National Union of Teachers (NUT) suggested
that schools adopt flexible uniform policies and
provide private prayer facilities for pupils who want
to use them. But headteachers, secular campaigners and
the Church of England criticised the proposals, which
were launched at the NUT's annual conference in
Manchester. The union warned that the spread of
separate faith schools under Government reforms
threatened to undermine community relations, with
children taught in segregated groups. Officials said
the predominance of Christian schools in England was
"unjust and unsustainable" when growing numbers of
Muslim families wanted their own religious state
education. The NUT proposed a solution in which all
state schools offer "religious instruction" to pupils
who want it from different faiths. NUT general
secretary Steve Sinnott said: "I believe that there
will be real benefits to all our communities and
youngsters if we could find space for pupils who are
Roman Catholics, Anglican, Methodist, Jewish, Sikh and
Muslim to have more religious instruction in schools.
"You could
have imams coming in, you could have the local rabbi
coming in and the local Roman Catholic priest. If there
were opportunities where they all talked together to
the youngsters, what a fantastic example that would
be." The policy document, In Good Faith, was formally
adopted by delegates at the NUT's annual conference in
Manchester. It said "reasonable accommodations" should
be made to meet the religious needs of all pupils. The
Church of England attacked the NUT proposal. A
spokesman for the CoE said: "Religious instruction
belongs with the religious institutions, the churches,
the mosques, the temples."
School admission policies
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March 2008: Government research has uncovered evidence
of large scale cheating on the national school
admissions code. And who do you think is mainly
responsible? Those stalwart guardians of public morals…
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