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  • What are they teaching my kids?

    Rob Deering is unimpressed by his local primary school's reliance on lazy, default Christianity

  • Dawkins' new book impresses the kids

    With his new book The Magic of Reality, Richard Dawkins wants to introduce children to the wonders of science. He gets a resounding thumbs up from Manjit Kumar's resident young experts

  • Is it over for Catholic Ireland?

    The deteriorating relationship between the Vatican and the Irish state is good news for the Republic, says Padraig Reidy

  • Editorial: School for scandal

    Education is a fundamental concern for humanists – so it's no surprise that AC Grayling's New College is dividing opinion

  • Trouble at Grayling Hall

    Its difficult not to see the New College of the Humanities as misguided and anti-humanist, says Sally Feldman

  • Just say 'No' to Nadine Dorries

    The Conservative MP Nadine Dorries is pushing abstinence and attacking abortion rights. What young people really need is proper sex education, argues Zoe Margolis

  • Different angle

    Andrew West's photos of the Mustard Seed Secular School, Uganda

  • Changing course

    The 'Arab Spring' has changed how we teach Middle East politics forever, says Kerem Oktem

  • Stuart Hall

    Stuart Hall talks to Laurie Taylor about race, relativism and revolution

  • Editorial: Creating confusion

    Far from being an atheist straw man, Biblical fundamentalism poses a real threat to British schools