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League tables overestimate faith school performance, says study
A new measure of school progress unfairly benefits faith and grammar schools by not taking into account... Read More »
Fully discriminatory Catholic schools proposed in Cambridgeshire
Two Catholic primary schools in Peterborough and another in Cambridge are among the first to be proposed... Read More »
Northern Ireland's children and families are paying the price of faith schools’ failure
The inefficiency of Northern Ireland's sectarian school system means cuts bite harder. Efforts to educate... Read More »
DfE assessment: new selective faith schools will disadvantage families
The No More Faith Schools campaign has said the government "must think again" over the funding of a wave... Read More »
Most maintained rural primary schools are faith schools, data shows
The National Secular Society has again said the government should monitor faith-based impositions on... Read More »
Academy trust warned over faith school's inadequate standards
The Department for Education has warned an academy trust it will lose its funding if a faith school it... Read More »
Faith schools significantly limit choice for many parents, NSS finds
Almost three in ten families in England live in areas where most or all of the local primary schools... 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... Read More »
New religious academy planned in Cambridgeshire
A Christian 'free school' with the slogan "Education Built on Faith" could open in the Cambridgeshire... Read More »
There’s no hypocrisy in being forced into a ‘choice’ you don’t like
As the pro-faith schools lobby rounds on campaigner Alice Roberts, Alastair Lichten says her situation... Read More »
Government commits funding to new 100% selective faith schools
The government has announced funding for a wave of new voluntary aided faith schools, which can select... Read More »
33 new faith schools proposed in latest round of academies
Thirty-three new faith schools have been included in the latest wave of free school applications in England,... Read More »