Tags: Admissions
Petition calls for end to religious selection at Lancashire school
Campaigners in Lancaster have started a petition calling on a Church of England secondary school to end religious discrimination in its admissions policy. Read More »
DfE plans to keep cap on faith-based discrimination in admissions
The government has said it has no plans to lift a 50% cap on faith-based admissions to new faith schools in England. Read More »
NMFS campaign opposing new selective Catholic school
The NMFS campaign is resisting plans to open a religiously selective Catholic school in Peterborough in Cambridgeshire. Read More »
Adjudicator can’t stop Jewish school’s impositions on families
A Jewish state school may continue enforcing strict religious observance criteria on children and their families. Read More »
Faith based selection sends a damaging message to our children
Joanne Bartley, a campaigner with the group Comprehensive Future, argues that a comprehensive education system should also be free of religious selection. Read More »
Campaigners sign major letter against fully selective faith schools
Campaigners have urged the government not to fund new faith schools which can choose all their children on a religious basis. Read More »
Faith schools under-represent disadvantaged children, report says
Faith schools under-represent the rates of social disadvantage in their catchment areas across Britain, a study has found. Read More »
Derbyshire parents forced to send children to Catholic school
Parents are being forced to send their children to a Catholic school that belittles non-Catholic families in its official policy. Read More »
Adjudicator: faith schools may insist families are strictly religious
England's schools adjudicator has said it is "reasonable" for two state-funded Orthodox Jewish schools to expect the families of applicants to observe strict religious practices. Read More »
Children refused school places due to discriminatory policies, complaints reveal
A girl of Muslim background and a girl with autism were among those refused places at state-funded faith schools in September because of discriminatory policies, complaints to an ombudsman have revealed. Read More »
Report: Parents attending church services to improve school choice
More than three in 10 parents know someone who attended religious services to get their children into a specific faith school, according to the educational equality charity the Sutton Trust. Read More »
‘Church schools’ less likely to admit black or poor pupils
Black and disadvantaged pupils are significantly less likely to gain places at 'church schools' than their white or better-off counterparts, a study has found. Read More »