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  • 17 Mar
    2008
    Review of admissions in church schools desperately needed

    Following the news that Secretary of State Ed Balls has ordered a review of admissions policies in faith and church schools, Jonathan Bartley, co-director of the religious thinktank Ekklesia, who h

  • 12 Mar
    2008
    Faith schools are breaking the law on admissions

    Faith schools appear to be the main offenders when it comes to breaking new rules on admissions, a Government survey has found.
    Ed Balls, schools secretary, announced that his Department had randomly picked three authorities to examine

  • 4 Mar
    2008
    Court case to hear charge of discrimination against faith school

    A potentially landmark faith schools court case for alleged racial discrimination is now underway, involving the JFS (formally the Jewish Free School). It is being brought by parents whose child was denied a place at the school.

  • 26 Nov
    2007
    Cheapside Debate on church schools
    27/11/2007 - 13:00
    27/11/2007 - 14:00

    Jonathan Bartley, co-director of Ekklesia is debating church schools with John Hall (ex-head of C of E Board of Education, now Dean of Westminster) and Jeremy Craddock, Dean of Emmanuel College Cambri

  • 16 Nov
    2007
    Education minister expected to reaffirm Government commitment to faith schools

    The Government’s chief minister for standards in schools, Lord Adonis, is expected to emphasise the government’s commitment to faith schools at a conference today. He will address head teachers and governors of Church of England schools in Harrogate.

  • 14 Nov
    2007
    Understanding 'the faith agenda'

    Among a vocal minority of those for whom religion is at best irrelevant and at worse an anathema, there is confusion about why government pays so much attention to faith groups.

  • 5 Nov
    2007
    Government adviser says schools should not select on the basis of faith

    Plans being considered by a senior government education adviser may see church and other faith-based schools lose their power to select pupils - something which has led to widespread accusations of discrimination against them.

  • 30 Oct
    2007
    Churches need to face the challenge of change

    From an interview in the latest issue of SCM's 'Movement' magazine with Ekklesia co-director Simon Barrow, examining the challenge to the churches of post-Christendom, the current era in which thei

  • 23 Oct
    2007
    Faith schools should be community oriented, agrees archbishop

    Publicly-funded schools sponsored by the church do not set out to indoctrinate pupils or promote a particular philosophy, says the Archbishop of Canterbury. But critics say they can still discriminate and inhibit social mixing.

  • 25 Sep
    2007
    Gordon Brown and religious rhetoric

    One of the more intriguing aspects of Gordon Brown's first Labour party conference speech as serving prime minister was his decision to use consciously biblical language

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