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  • 30 Aug
    2008
    A chance for more fairness in faith schools

    Simon Barrow, co-director of Ekklesia, says that the Christian think-tank "is delighted to be a founding member of the new coalition, Accord, which seeks to reform faith schools through fair admiss

  • 30 Aug
    2008
    New coalition for inclusive schooling to be launched

    A new coalition called Accord, which will be launched officially on Monday 1 September 2008, is calling on Children, Schools and Families Secretary of State Ed Balls to stop publicly-funded faith schools from discriminating against students and teachers on the grounds of their beliefs.

  • 30 Aug
    2008
    Coalition to issue challenge on faith schools policy

    The government is being urged to reform faith schools to ensure they cannot discriminate against pupils and teachers on religious grounds and to give a clear commitment to inclusive, community-wide education for all Britain's pupils.

  • 4 Jul
    2008
    Discrimination in religious schools

    Responding to the broader concern attached to a high court judgement issued on 2 July 2008 (see 'Faith Schools judgment fails to consider human rights angle'), Simon Barrow, co-director of the UK r

  • 4 Jul
    2008
    Faith school judgement fails to consider human rights angle

    Supporters of inclusive schooling have expressed disappointment at a high court judgment that fails to consider seriously religious discrimination under the European Convention on Human Rights.

  • 30 Jun
    2008
    Comment on 'Bad Faith' faith schools report

    Responding to today's report 'Bad Faith' by Cristina Odone for the Centre for Policy Studies, Jonathan Bartley, director of the religious thinktank Ekklesia said:

  • 30 Jun
    2008
    Report on faith schools 'fails to address issues of inclusion'

    The British Humanist Association (BHA) and the religious thinktank Ekklesia are amongst those who have today criticised as 'misguided' a report on faith schools published today by the Centre for Policy Studies

  • 16 May
    2008
    Faith bodies should end discriminatory practices

    Responding to the decision by an employment tribunal that a Christian charity constructively dismissed a former employee, himself a Christian, when he refused to discriminate against non-Christians

  • 28 Mar
    2008
    Teacher's proposals on religion in schools provoke big debate

    The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has caused a heated debate with a proposal that instead of single-faith schools funded by the public, all schools should become practising multi-faith institutions.

  • 18 Mar
    2008
    Inquiry ordered into faith schools admissions

    An inquiry has been ordered following claims that some schools - most notably faith schools - have been breaking laws aimed at making admissions fairer. Schools Adjudicator Philip Hunter has been given until July for his probe.

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