Sentences with phrase «faith schools»

The enduring popularity of faith schools despite a national decline in church attendance could be put down to their academic record.

Plans to lift the 50 - per - cent admissions cap on new faith schools have been abandoned, almost two years after they were first proposed.

Only 30 per cent had no objections of any kind to state funding for faith schools.

It was released following proposals in the «Schools that work for everyone» green paper that suggested removing restrictions on faith schools which currently limits faith based admissions to 50 per cent.

It has failed to make minority faith schools more diverse, because parents of other religions and none do not send their children to those schools.

The 50 % cap was introduced by Government to make sure that new state faith schools could no longer select 100 % of their pupils by religion.

Faith schools by their nature discriminate against those of other faiths.

But one idea in the ether is that we should open more Muslim faith schools.

As with other faith schools in the state sector, they will be allowed to recruit 100 % of pupils from particular faith groups.

A smaller number of respondents felt that making faith schools twin with other schools of different faiths would give pupils exposure to other teaching, but others said that approach would be too expensive.

In her report published this week she remarked that some independent faith schools are «deliberately choosing» not to meet standards, due to the tensions between legal requirements and community expectations.

More schools are predicted to sign up to longer commitments, including faith school linking schemes, which help children engage with people in the same communities they might otherwise not meet.

The schools in question are not faith schools, or «schools with a religious character», but a combination of academies and council - run schools.

One can not help drawing comparisons with the struggle today to maintain Catholic faith schools in our own country.

There are many good examples of existing faith schools to choose from.

The mainstream view is now against state - funded selective faith schools.

The current cap stops new faith schools admitting more than 50 per cent of children on the basis of religion.

It's actually very difficult to discover how many faith schools there are.

In addition, the majority of faith schools appeared to request unnecessary information from parents.

This would allow religious free schools to give priority in admissions in the same way as existing local authority and academy faith schools.

When discussion of faith schools comes to the fore, we are still largely talking about church schools.

Faith schools insisting that their teachers come from a specific religious background could leave the government open to discrimination claims.

We would like a debate on what initiatives can be taken to enable faith schools to foster community cohesion.

But instead of making it easier for religious groups to open free schools, ministers will invite councils to open faith schools jointly with religious groups, as they have done in the past.

Most parents want their children to be brought up in the same faith as they hold and faith schools acknowledge and support parents in this matter.

Instead faith schools will have to prove that parents of other faiths, and none, would be prepared to send their children to that school.

The prime minister's proposals also included expanded selection for faith schools and new conditions placed on universities and independent schools.

He's worried about funding for schools from local authorities, and its impact on faith schools and school choice.

Allowing new faith schools to religiously select 100 % of their pupils is not only problematic in terms of social integration, it is simply unfair.

So what if state - funded faith schools were banned?

Increasing the number of faith schools could lead to «increased social segregation, with a risk of lower social mobility», according to a new report.

«That is a legitimate view, if you hold that, but at the moment people are really using faith schools as «back - door grammar schools».»

Allen is a patron of Humanists UK (formerly British Humanist Association) and has campaigned against faith schools in the United Kingdom.

The head of the Catholic Education Service has said it will be «dreadful» if faith schools exploit new... More

New Schools Network director Nick Timothy said faith schools were «delivering exceptional education for many pupils» but there needed to be choice for parents wanting a «non-religious alternative».

But Prime Minister Theresa May argued that the cap was stopping more good faith schools opening and the «Schools that work for everyone» green paper included proposals to remove this cap.

First children's secretary Ed Balls got a roasting for allowing faith schools an exemption from equality requirements in the curriculum.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and renowned atheist Richard Dawkins have signed a letter in the Daily Telegraph along with over 60 others, arguing that the cap on the number of religious students at faith schools should stay.

If you would like to watch the full interview between Becky Allen and school leader Keziah Featherstone — where they discuss everything from faith schools and social mobility, to teacher training and how schools use data — you will need to log in as a member.

The Department for Education (DfE) has announced that the new rules will stop «secularist campaign groups» from targeting faith school admission «as part of a particular agenda».

A primary Islamic faith school for 4 - 11 year olds in Bolton.

Despite Britain's multi-faith society, schools are still required to include a collective act of worship of a Christian nature, while faith schools and religious academies have raised fears about community cohesion and covert selection.

The news comes after The Independent launched an investigation, which revealed thousands of children are currently attending illegal faith schools in the UK and are at risk of abuse.

Speaking to the BBC's Today programme those morning, Secretary of State for Education Damian Hinds said that he expects few faith schools to open under the new scheme.

The head of the Catholic Education Service has said it will be «dreadful» if faith schools exploit new rules to take children from only their religion.