Sentences with phrase «faith schools admitting»
Taking into account the fact that the average faith school admits fewer pupils from poor backgrounds than the average non faith school, the EPI concluded that increasing the numbers of faith schools «would come at the price of increased social segregation».
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In the future, faith schools will be able to selectively admit all of their pupils on the basis of their faith.
Currently, faith schools are limited in the number of pupils they can admit who share the religious ethos of the school.
If denominational schools were so divisive, why do so many people who do not share our faith want to be admitted?
Back in 2015, a survey commissioned by ITV revealed that 12 per cent of parents of primary school aged children admitted to having pretended to practice a faith in which they did not believe to get their child into a desirable faith school.
In Humanists UK's view, any attempt to boost integration in the education system is likely to be a non-starter if new and existing faith schools can still religiously discriminate in admitting all of their places.
Programs are charged with ensuring that candidates work with «diverse» higher education and school faculty, peers, and students, and must demonstrate «good - faith efforts» to admit candidates and hire faculty from diverse cultural backgrounds.
The report found that socially selective schools tended to be faith - based, admitting religious families from higher social groups.
In fact, the cap was only enforced when schools were oversubscribed: undersubscribed faith schools were allowed to admit 100 per cent of pupils from the same religious background.
Sierra admits the school's fund - raising might have «tapped out» the local faith community, and it will be seeking more national grants.
It was suggested this week that the new education secretary Damian Hinds plans to remove the 50 - per - cent cap on pupils of the same religion being admitted to faith schools.
Damian Hinds, the education secretary, pledged to lift the cap — which prevents free schools in areas with a shortage of places from admitting more than 50 per cent of pupils on the basis of faith — in an interview with The Sunday Times last week.