Sentences with phrase «humanist association»

The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has once again criticised the Department for Education's (DfE) stance on making personal, social, health, and economic education (PSHE), including sex and relationships education (SRE), compulsory in English schools.

A new study by the British Humanist Association (BHA) has found that Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) was mentioned in less than 1 per cent of inspection reports.

However, Andrew Copson, chief executive of the British Humanist Association (BHA), says the changes will «reduce parents» fair choice of state schools».

The agreement resulted from a meeting here attended by representatives of the National Education Association (nea), the National Council of Churches, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Humanist Association, among others.

A new report published by the British Humanist Association (BHA), entitled «An Unholy Mess», reveals that faith schools are systematically cheating the admissions system.

Proposed plans to allow faith schools to select all pupils based on religious grounds will lead to «increased ethnic and religious segregation across England», according to the British Humanist Association (BHA).

72 per cent of the public are opposed to religious selection in schools, according to a new survey conducted by the British Humanist Association (BHA).

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has urged the government to end faith - based selection in state schools.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has welcomed the leading exam board Oxford, Cambridge and RSA's (OCR) decision that schools should not be permitted to redact exam questions.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has expressed dismay at the further segregation of the state - funded education system.

http://www.humanism.org.uk/campaigns/religion-and-schools/countering-creationism The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

Last year Humanists UK its name from the British Humanist Association: https://humanism.org.uk/2017/05/22/bha-becomes-humanists-uk/

Andrew Copson is chief executive of the British Humanist Association.

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Humanists UK is the operating name of the British Humanist Association, a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales — no. 228781.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) was represented by Yogi Amin and Marcelo Masri (Irwin Mitchell), and Heather Rogers QC, Caoilfhionn Gallagher and Maria Roche (Doughty Street Chambers) on the side of assisted dying.

The symbol was chosen in a competition organised by the British Humanist Association in 1965.

In previous years, under its old name of the British Humanist Association, Humanists UK adopted a distinctive «Bendy Human» logo for its own use.

The Campaign launched in June 2013, and is also already being supported by the Accord Coalition, the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches and a number of local campaign groups.

The Defence Humanists (formerly known as the UK Armed Forces Humanist Association) is a growing body of servicemen and women, their Families, Veterans and civilian members of the Ministry of Defence who seek to represent the interests of all those who subscribe to non-religious beliefs.

The British Humanist Association (BHA), which campaigns for an end to religious discrimination in school admissions, says the move could lead to the «greatest growth in religious segregation in the history of English schools».

British Humanist Association accuses attorney general of trying to turn debate over faith into «war of words about religion»

Andrew Copson, Chief Executive, British Humanist Association and board member, Religious Education Council for England and Wales

The ruling was made last month in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request submitted by the British Humanist Association (BHA) in June 2011, and will now be considered by a judge at the Information Tribunal.

Today is the final day of the government's Review of Personal, Social, Health and Economics (PSHE) Education, and the British Humanist Association (BHA) has submitted its response.

A letter in yesterday's Observer expressing concern about pseudo-scientific Free Schools has been signed by the British Humanist Association (BHA).

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has expressed regret at the approvals, which include the first ever state - funded special needs and alternative provision «faith» schools.

Jane has had extensive experience in caring professions, with qualifications in psychotherapy, adult education, and counselling and she is accredited in non-religious pastoral support by the British Humanist Association (BHA), with whom she is also an accredited funeral celebrant.

Humanists are free - thinking individuals and the views expressed in these items are not necessarily shared by all humanists or reflected in British Humanist Association policy.

These are the hallmarks of a humanist celebrant accredited by the British Humanist Association and it is important to always check for that accreditation.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has welcomed the news that the non-religious will now be provided for in this way.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) said teaching creationism in any syllabus was unacceptable.

The letter was organised by the President of the British Humanist Association (BHA) Professor Jim Al - Khalili, theoretical physicist and science broadcaster.

The FOI request was submitted by the British Humanist Association (BHA) and asked for a copy of the investigation carried out in 2010 by the DfE's Free Schools team into whether or not Steiner schools should receive state funding.

Legal problems again arose when the Ethical Union temporarily lost its charitable status, forcing the RPA to withdraw in 1967, and the Ethical Union then changed its name to «British Humanist Association», the old umbrella BHA being wound up.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) asked members of the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG) to vote in support of the plans.

Legal reforms on assisted dying are urgently needed, including to distinguish between cases of «mercy killing» and murder, the British Humanist Association (BHA) has said today.

Today's British Humanist Association, operating as Humanists UK, is therefore the same legal entity as was founded in 1896.

In 1963 the RPA and Ethical Union decide to sponsor an «umbrella» British Humanist Association and its inaugural meeting took place in 1963 in the House of Commons with Sir Julian Huxley, A. J. Ayer, and Baroness Wootton among those present.

The British Humanist Association (BHA), who called for a broadening of the subject in its response to the Welsh curriculum review last year, has welcomed the announcement and looks forward to seeing further details as they are released.

The House of Lords is holding a debate on two key British Humanist Association (BHA) publications: The Case for Secularism: A Neutral State in an Open Society and Quality and Equality: Human Rights, Public Services and Religious Organisations.

In its briefing on why Humanism is typically studied in RE, and repeatedly in its correspondence with DfE ministers, the British Humanist Association (BHA) has pointed to the recommended study of Humanism in the 2013 guidance and the resultant inconsistency of excluding such study at GCSE and A level.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) is the national charity representing and supporting the non-religious and campaigning for an end to religious privilege and discrimination based on religion or belief.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) welcomed the withdrawing of the motion but commented that the law in relation to civil partnerships and marriage remains «far from equal» and called for further reform.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has today commented on a Court of Appeal judgment that has found the admissions criteria of the Jewish Free School (JFS) in breach of the Race Relations Act 1976.

Together with the British Humanist Association (BHA) and the Religious Education Council of England and Wales (REC), they have urged the Government to think again.

The British Humanist Association has condemned remarks made by Prime Minister David Cameron, in which he stated that Britain was a Christian country, that it was only as a Christian country that Britain could be welcoming of those of other religions, and that Christian values could reverse British society's «moral collapse».

The British Humanist Association (BHA) has welcomed the comments, which come shortly after the BHA co-founded the Fair Admissions Campaign, a campaign that has the single aim of ending religious selection by state schools in England and Wales.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) is the national charity representing and supporting the non-religious and campaigning for an end to religious privilege and discrimination.