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  • 2 Jun
    2009
    Religious call to halt faith school discrimination

    A letter from members of nine religious traditions calling for an end to religious discrimination in schools has been published in the Times. The plea coincides with the first day of the Equality Bill’s committee stage.

  • 31 May
    2009
    The Equality Bill 2008-9 and church responses to it

    The Equality Bill 2008-2009, which will extend both to England and Wales, and to Scotland, covers age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. It also requires public authorities to do more to tackle the effects of socio-economic disadvantage. The Bill has received a hostile response among some religious groups, while the response of the large churches (including the Church of England) has been to welcome its principal aims while contesting aspects of its detail - particularly in terms of lobbying for opt-outs and provisions which would allow continued discrimination on grounds of sexuality and gender by faith bodies on grounds of 'upholding beliefs'. In this paper, Savitri Hensman assesses the issues and suggests that the churches need to move forward positively, on theological and practical grounds, in affirming comprehensive equalities in the public sphere. She also tackles the harm that discrimination and inequality causes, not least to the most vulnerable and those suffering prejudice.

    Savi Hensman
  • 15 May
    2009
    On not being idiotic about church schools

    Dismissing those who want to reform faith schools as 'useful idiots' for a 'secularist conspiracy' misrepresents the facts, feeds absolutism and undermines sensible debate, say Simon Barrow & Jonathan Bartley. It also shows how weak the anti-reform case really is.

  • 14 May
    2009
    Christian values in schooling means ending discrimination

    The Church of England has at last set out what is means by a "Christian ethos" in schooling, says Jonathan Bartley. Its espoused values are very positive. So now is the time to end discrimination in schools run by the church but funded by the general taxpayer.

  • 8 May
    2009
    Church of England's values raise questions about its schooling policies

    The Church of England is planning rapid expansion of publicly-funded schools in its control, but it faces a challenge from parents, teachers, unions, academics, clergy and many others who want to end discrimination in admissions and employment.

  • 19 Apr
    2009
    Academic research on faith school policies

    Commenting on a new study by academics at the London School of Economics and the Institute of Education, both part of the University of London, to be published in full at the Royal Economic Society

  • 6 Apr
    2009
    Accord backs union calls for end of faith discrimination in schools

    The Accord coalition for inclusive schooling has welcomed plans by the National Union of Teachers to campaign for an end religious discrimination in school admissions.

  • 28 Mar
    2009
    Global conference puts human face to Dalit struggle

    Speakers at the Global Ecumenical Conference on Justice for Dalits last weekend gave a human face to the 3,500-year-old system of institutional caste-based discrimination.

  • 10 Mar
    2009
    Why church schools can be less than Christian

    If we are to have publicly funded faith schools, then they must serve the whole community, says Anglican vicar Jeremy Chadd. They mustn’t exist to prop up one community, nor to offer escape routes from a more diverse real world to those who already have all the advantages in life.

  • 8 Mar
    2009
    Liberal Democrats vote to demand fairness from faith schools

    The Liberal Democrats have become the first mainstream political party in Britain to admit that many faith schools currently pursue unnecessary discriminatory practices in admissions and employment, and to pledge to challenge them.

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