Sentences with phrase «religious education council»

Dr Joyce Miller, Chair of the Religious Education Council (REC), said: «The REC Board has agreed unanimously that the optional systematic study of a non-religious worldview should be introduced at GCSE level.

His comments follow concerns from the Religious Education Council of England and Wales that a removal of short courses from the Department for Education (DfE) performance tables is «having a serious and negative impact on the number of pupils choosing to take religious studies at GCSE level, with an increasing number of schools having no pupils at all taking the subject».

Commenting on the figures, Rudolf Eliott Lockhart, chief executive of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales, said: «While it is fantastic to see increasing numbers of students opting to take the full course GCSE in Religious Studies, a reflection of the attraction of an academically rigorous subject that helps prepare students to understand an increasingly diverse modern world, we should not ignore the troubling news that declining entries for the short course mean that more than 100,000 fewer young people have studied the subject at GCSE level this year than in 2010.

The Religious Education Council of England and Wales has praised the rise in entries, which has been achieved despite RS being left out of the Ebacc performance measure.

3) refers to the current report by the Religious Education Council - on a suggested Curriculum content for RE.

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

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.

This follows on from the news in January that Fiona Bruce MP, who took over as chair of the APPG following the 2015 general election, has sacked the Religious Education Council of England and Wales (REC), the highly respected umbrella body for those who teach or have an interest in RE, as the secretariat to the group.

Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson added, «Humanists UK is a founding member of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales, and humanists have always advocated in the strongest terms for the importance of good quality, inclusive education in schools about religious and humanist beliefs.

Most religious groups, teaching unions, and the Religious Education Council are concerned about the law on collective worship.

This meeting was held nearly two months after the election, by which time, I am not aware of any attempts by the Religious Education Council to approach me, as vice-chair, to help with these arrangements.»

Chief Executive, Religious Education Council of England and Wales said: «It is troubling that there is a decline in the number of pupils receiving a solid grounding in Religious Education at Key Stage 4.

The Department for Education's decision to reintroduce the bursary has been welcomed by the Religious Education Council of England and Wales (REC) and the National Association of Teachers of RE (NATRE).

According to figures from the National Association of Teachers of RE and the Religious Education Council, take up of the GCSE RS short course has also fallen by 53 % from 211,269 in 2012 to 99,601 in 2014

Rudolf Eliott Lockhart, Chief Executive, Religious Education Council of England and Wales said: «It's fantastic to see how popular Religious Studies A level remains.

Not exact matches

The following fall, I repeated the seminar at Yale Divinity School, and for this I wrote a paper on «Linguistic Models and Christian Education,» which I later read at the Professors and Research Section of the National Council of Churches and published in Religious Education for July - August 1966.

The danger, and one that has not been absent in the years since the Council, not least in Religious Education and Catechetics, is superficially to caricature one side of an aspect of Catholicism (eg.

In the course of the examination, five papers: English Language 2, Religious and Moral Education 2, Integrated Science 2, Social Studies 2 and Mathematics 2 leaked, compelling the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to cancel them for the candidates to rewrite those subjects.

A council in Wales has withdrawn its decision to exclude a humanist representative from the local body responsible for overseeing religious education (RE), following a legal challenge by a local humanist parent.

«The NSCIA demands that the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Justice, call the Council for Legal Education and the Nigerian Law School to order so that they will not stoke religious crisis in the country.

Department spokeswoman Emily DeSantis said the new guidance was «still a work in progress» but that Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia had met with an advisory council that includes some of the larger independent and religious school stakeholders.

Various religious groups, including the Christian Council of Ghana have for sometime now been calling for the reversal of a 1984 take - over of their schools which was basically set up to provide Christian education.

Even with an increase in unaffiliated adults, most Americans are religious, said Eugenie Scott, chair of the National Center for Science Education advisory council.

Members of the National Council on Religion and Public Education said at the three - day conference that in the years since the Supreme Court decided the cases of Abington v. Schempp and Murray v. Curlett, the U.S. and other countries have entered a period of religious revival.

Griffiths was backed by Kim Knappett, the vice-president of the ATL and a member of a local authority standing advisory council on religious education, which produces the syllabus for RE in maintained schools.

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A London council's education authority destroyed evidence of children being educated in illegal faith schools at the request of religious institutions, The Independent can reveal.

The five - page document produced by the Council for National Policy calls for a «restoration of education in America» that would minimize the federal role, promote religious schools and home schooling and enshrine «historic Judeo - Christian principles» as a basis for instruction.

Grades K to 8, AdvancED Accredited, Departmental Grades 5 to 8, Fully - equipped science lab materials, Interdisciplinary instruction, Differentiated Instruction, Promethean Boards and computers in every classroom, iPads, Enrichment instruction includes: Art, Library, Computer, Music, and Physical Education, Remedial services, Religious instruction, Sacramental preparation, Children's choir, Altar Servers, Student Community Service projects, Extra-curricular activities include: Girl Scouts, Yearbook, Student Council, Dance, Cheerleading, Dance, Chorus, and Soccer.

She was also the lead officer for Somerset Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education (SACRE) and for the schools involvement in Community Cohesion.

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