Sentences with phrase «new faith schools»

The majority of the general public want new faith schools to maintain their current selection cap which limits schools from not selecting more than half of their pupils on religious grounds.

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

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

«Labour has always recognised that faith schools are an important part of the educational landscape and under a Labour government applications for new faith schools will still be considered.»

Humanists UK will be doubling down on its efforts for a fully inclusive education system, challenging new faith schools applications as they arise.

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In my area the Labour Council has actively connived, away from public view, with religious groups to found new faith schools thinking that it will prop up its gradually declining support from minority ethnic groups.

Hinds also told The Sunday Times that he would abolish a ban on new faith schools taking in more than 50 per cent of pupils on the basis of their religion — a policy which has prevented the Catholic Church opening any free schools.

Grammar schools in England will receive # 50m to create new places - and a route has been opened to create new faith schools, Education Secretary Damian Hinds has announced.

The new poll finds that Roman Catholics favour new faith schools having to operate under the 50 % cap by 67 % to 33 %.

The government plans to spend # 50 million a year expanding existing grammar schools and also hopes to allow other schools to select based on ability, while also introducing a raft of measures to make it easier for new faith schools to open, and force universities and private schools to play a bigger role in the running of local schools.

The majority of the general public want new faith schools to maintain their current selection cap which... More

• No new faith school allowed to discriminate in its admissions • No existing faith school allowed to discriminate in admissions in the future • No faith school allowed to discriminate against teachers (including hiring, firing, and refusing promotion) on religious grounds

With competition for school places set to intensify over the next decade, the government's recent proposal to relax admissions rules for new faith schools has been met with mixed responses.

While the move to allow new faith schools to select all of their pupils by religion has been welcomed by many religious schools, others have expressed fears that allowing schools to select their entire intake by faith will lead to increased segregation.

In 2016, the government proposed scrapping the rule that new faith schools can only apply their faith - based over-subscription criteria to the first 50 per cent of places when they are over-subscribed.

Last September, the government said that new faith schools would no longer have to offer 50 per cent of their places to those of other religions or none.

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

The highest levels of immigration from Catholic countries are to the capital and East Anglia — so the Catholic Education Service expects the demand for new faith schools will be most acute there.

Around # 50 million a year is expected to be spent on the expansion plans while the government will also introduce new measures making it easier for new faith schools to open, and force universities and private schools to play a bigger role in the running of local schools.

Since 2010, new faith schools in England have had to abide by an admissions cap - which prevents them selecting more than half of their pupils on the basis of faith.

A new opinion poll has found that four out of every five voters prefer that new faith schools should continue to operate under the current cap which limits the schools from not selecting more than half of their pupils on religious grounds.

The government pledges # 50m for grammar school expansion and gives councils funding for new faith schools.