Reading Time: 4 minutes During a recent interview on Liberty Counsel’s “Liberty Pastors” show, the hate-group’s president Mat Staver explained that Christian schools should ban children with gay parents. Why go after the kids? Because exposing other students to well-adjusted and kind classmates with gay parents might lead students to think gay people are well-adjusted and kind… and that […]
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Faith statements admit that Christianity can’t compete
Reading Time: 4 minutes Faith statements (doctrinal statements) constrain Christian scholarship by defining beforehand the acceptable conclusion.
Posted inEducation, The Secular
Government announces more than £2 million in funding enabling religious take-over of yet more schools
Reading Time: 3 minutes Man, the UK government sucks. Big time. This is from Humanists UK: Humanists UK has expressed alarm about the potential for a religious power-grab in schools with and without a religious character after the UK Government announced it is allocating more than £2 million in funding to increase the number of schools in faith academies […]
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Faith Schools in the UK: An Ongoing Battle
Reading Time: 7 minutes Education in the UK is very different to what it is in the US for a whole host of reasons, one being the historical ties to religion and education. Though we are culturally a far more “secular” country, institutionally, we are not. Here, I will relate three articles from Humanists UK (I have permission to […]
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Op-ed: Government & Religion
Reading Time: 5 minutes IN November the UK Government launched an Independent Faith Engagement Review, headed by the Director of the Conservative Christian Fellowship, Colin Bloom, above. The review into ‘how best the government should engage with faith groups in England’ concluded on December 11. The consultation prompted Professor John Radford, Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of East London, […]
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Number of Pupils at CofE Schools more than Entire ‘Worshipping Community’
Reading Time: 3 minutes The UK education system is not secular in the way that the Us system is, even though we are a more “secular” country. Something like 37% of our primary schools are faith schools, often only nominally in name (it depends on the head teachers, Senior Leadership Teams, governors and dioceses of the school), but sometimes […]
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Morals Without Religion – Alice Roberts
Reading Time: < 1 minute I like Prof. Alice Roberts. She is a scientist and author who is excellent at communicating science on TV and other media and, now, humanism. She is relatively newly appointed to the President of Humanists UK. She courted controversy courtesy of the Times and other right-wing newspapers when, in an interview, she explained that she […]
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Research Busts Faith School Academic Excellence Myth
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have previously written several articles laying out the problems with making the claim (particularly in the UK context) that faith schools are better for one reason or another: Are Faith Schools Better? An Issue of Correlation vs Causation Taxpayers Effectively Completely Fund Faith Schools ‘Faith’ schools three times more socially selective than others, new […]
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Taxpayers Effectively Completely Fund Faith Schools
Reading Time: 4 minutes I am going to let you into a little secret now that’s is not a secret because it is public knowledge but is a secret because apparently, no one seems to know it. And when I say no one seems to know it, I mean no one seems to know this at all, whether they […]
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School admissions appeal system worsens inequalities and increases social segregation, new report finds
Reading Time: 2 minutes This unsurprising news is from Humanists UK. I will be writing something connected to this later today that people are oddly completely unaware of: The chances of parents getting a child into their first choice of school via the appeals process ‘varies considerably by family background, ethnicity, and pupil attainment at primary school,’ according to […]