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By Jo Cairns, Roy Gardner, Denis Lawton

Until relatively lately the separation of students in keeping with faith used to be felt to be suitable with a entire schooling. That consensus now not holds and there's a powerful optimistic foyer both to absorb religion colleges altogether in the nation approach or at the least to dilute their club making sure they comprise teenagers from different faiths, or no religion at all.

This ebook addresses the present matters, questions and curiosity surrounding the legitimacy, aid and meant enlargement of religion colleges. Divided into 5 sections, it contains chapters on:

* the felony frameworks for religion colleges and the rights of the kid * faith-based colleges within the united kingdom, Northern eire, France and america * the impression of religion colleges on student functionality * religion colleges, non secular schooling and citizenship * political and learn issues.

Faith colleges: Consensus or clash? is of curiosity to educators, policymakers, researchers and scholars of schooling, faith and sociology.

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Although some degree of public accountability has existed since the beginning of public education, the Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) and Welsh equivalent Arolygiaeth Ei Mawrhydi Dros Addysg A Hyfforddiant yng Nghymru/Her Majesty’s Inspectorate For Education and Training in Wales (ESTYN) inspection regimes and reporting requirements have been more systematically pursued since the 1992 Education Act (revised 1996). Two complementary inspections were required of voluntary aided schools: a ‘Section 9’ (11 in 1996) inspection covering the National Curriculum and other aspects such as Equal Opportunities and Health and Safety, plus a ‘Section 13’ (23 in 1996) inspection covering the RE under the control of the governors and foundation bodies.

Because it predated the NS, and had royal patronage, it was well supported by Anglicans—both evangelicals and broad church. 2 Whatever they ‘earned’ under the 1862 Revised Code, which remained in force, up to half the total expenditure. 3 That said, not all those projected were actually built. The last grant was not paid until 1881. 4 Nonconformist evidence submitted to the 1888 Cross Commission, which was appointed to review the workings of the 1870 Act following complaints from both RCs and the CofE about the position of church schools.

In fact the public purse has over the years ended up paying the overwhelming proportion of the costs. It might equally be argued that, notwithstanding the guise of theological argument, the real driver from the churches for school and collège provision was institutional self-interest— maximising their ‘ownership’ and range of contacts. There is no shortage of examples where behaviour can be interpreted in this way. Collectively, there were remarkable scrambles to put down additional territorial markers in the early 1870s, as again in the immediate aftermath of the 1944 Act.

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