Education & Children

Free to teach creationism?

Free to teach creationism?

Under the government's education reforms, 15 per cent of groups applying to open academies are religious. How would those schools handle evolution? James Gray investigates

Count yourself out

Count yourself out

Winston Fletcher warns that the question asking your religion, included again in this year’s census, is designed to distort

It’s the faith, stupid!

It’s the faith, stupid!

Social scientist Olivier Roy has been tracking religion for three decades. Caspar Melville talks to him about his new book Holy Ignorance

Faith in schools?

Faith in schools?

Thanks largely to immigration, religious belief is making a comeback in our schools. Should we be concerned? Jim Mulligan visits Ed Miliband’s old school to find out.

Don’t fall into the faith school trap

Don’t fall into the faith school trap

Responding to Francis Beckett's proposal for a humanist school, Rabbi Jonathan Romain of the Accord Coalition warns of the risks of endorsing religious segregation in education

Mark Say

Mint on the breath

A corrupt priest, an abused child, a knife. The dreadful consequences of clerical child abuse unfold in a specially written short story by Mark Say

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