Richard Dawkins will suggest this week that David Cameron is "not really" a Christian in an open letter to the Prime Minister attacking faith schools.
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Telegraph on 12th Dec 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
Dozens of faith schools in England are preparing to switch to become academies in the next six months.
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BBCPolitics on 3rd Dec 2011 (via bbc.co.uk)
Parents face paying up to £500 to send children to faith schools as councils across England axe subsidised transport in a move condemned as a "tax" on religion.
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Telegraph on 3rd Oct 2011 (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
A CHURCH of Scotland leader has warned calls for more faith schools would "undermine" efforts to educate children of all religions.
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Scotsman on 19th Sep 2011 (via news.scotsman.com)
The government is to pick up the cost of providing security guards at Jewish faith schools in England amid concerns about anti-semitic threats to pupils.
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BBCPolitics on 9th Dec 2010 (via bbc.co.uk)
The revelation that some British Muslim kids are reading Saudi textbooks was like manna from heaven for the anti-faith schools lobby.
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Spiked on 24th Nov 2010 (via spiked-online.com)
Just to point CoffeeHousers in the direction of a trio of delights across the site. First up, is Lloyd Evans’ review of a talk by Kevin Spacey that the Spectator hosted last week, which you can read over at the Spectator Arts Blog. And we also have a web exclusive review, by Lloyd again, of a Spectator debate on faith schools, here. Then there’s our vote for The Grea...
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Spectator on 19th Oct 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
In his programme attacking faith schools recently, Richard Dawkins had some fun at the expense of a Muslim girl who believed that fresh and salt water don't mix (though he didn't show us all the atheists who don't know that...
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CentreRight on 27th Aug 2010 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
Far from being factories of conformism, many faith schools turn out youngsters with high levels of BS immunity.
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Spiked on 23rd Aug 2010 (via spiked-online.com)
How much time should MPs be given to debate the most fundamental upheaval of state education system in 60 years? The BHA is deeply concerned that by steamrollering the Bill through Parliament, the government risks significantly increasing the power of religious groups in our school system. Religious Academies, like any kind of “faith school”, are divisive and discriminatory.
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LiberalConspiracy on 20th Jul 2010 (via liberalconspiracy.org)