New poll shows more parents than ever lying about faith to manipulate school...
A new poll commissioned for ITV’s ‘Tonight’ programme has revealed the shocking extent to which parents are lying about their religion in order to get their children into the local ‘faith’ school. The...
View ArticleGovernment urged to maintain religious selection cap
The Fair Admissions Campaign has called for the cap on new Academy faith schools not selecting more than half their pupils by faith to be maintained following public urging by Catholic Bishops to have...
View ArticleFair Admissions Campaign welcomes Council’s stand against religious selection
The Fair Admissions Campaign (FAC) has today welcomed the stand taken by Cambridgeshire County Council against proposals for a raft of new religiously-selective schools in the area. Meeting to discuss...
View ArticleEthnic ghettoisation of English schools revealed
A new study for the think tank Demos has revealed that schools in England are not keeping pace with the changing ethnic profile of society and are a major source of segregation. The detailed search...
View ArticleHow religious selection in schools unfairly limits parental choice
Every week, the Fair Admissions Campaign receives calls and emails from parents who are unable to get their children into their local schools due to the religiously-selective admissions criteria that...
View ArticleChurch of England Dioceses that encourage their schools to not select pupils...
New findings have revealed that a group of Church of England Dioceses have embraced calls for change from Anglican clergy who have recommended that their schools move away from selecting any pupils by...
View ArticleParents fail in bid to overturn Church of England school’s decision to scrap...
A group of parents who opposed the decision of a Church of England school in Kingston upon Thames to end selection by religion have failed in their attempt to reinstate faith-based admissions criteria....
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Faith schools and socio-economic selection: When comparing schools to their...
The Fair Admissions Campaign’s map rates every mainstream state secondary school in England based on how socio-economically inclusive it is. It does this by comparing the number of pupils in the school...
View Article‘An Unholy Mess’: New report reveals ‘near-universal noncompliance’ with...
As many as hundreds of thousands of children have been unlawfully denied access to religiously selective state schools in England, almost all of which are failing to comply with the School Admissions...
View ArticleJewish state school ordered not to select children based on details of...
Following an objection submitted by the Fair Admissions Campaign, a Jewish state school in north London has been told by the Office of the Schools Adjudicator that it must remove from its admission...
View ArticleFaith schools undermining Government integration and anti-extremism policies...
A new report by the Accord Coalition for Inclusive Education on behalf of the Fair Admissions Campaign, has issued a warning about how religious selection in faith school pupil admissions has become a...
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Government moves to ban organisations from exposing law-breaking schools...
Landmark report revealed near-universal non-compliance with School Admissions Code among religiously selective schools Following a report published by the Fair Admissions Campaign (FAC) last year...
View ArticleCatholic Archdiocesan report highlights religious cheating in admissions
An Archdiocese of Dublin commissioned report has drawn attention to a link between the number of baptisms that the Church conducts and it schools rewarding pupil places on these grounds. In a frank...
View ArticleParliamentarians and wider public denounce Government move to ban FAC from...
Following an announcement made by the Education Secretary Nicky Morgan last month that she plans to ban charities and other civil society organisations from formally raising concerns about the...
View ArticleDepartment for Education acknowledges 87% of objections to school admissions...
In response to a parliamentary question tabled in the House of Lords, the Department for Education (DfE) has at last conceded that the overwhelming majority of objections submitted to school admission...
View ArticlePriority for school places on basis of parents helping with ‘flower...
On secondary national offer day, and in the week by which schools must have determined their admission arrangements for 2017, the Fair Admissions Campaign (FAC) and British Humanist Association (BHA)...
View ArticleSutton Trust report urges limits to religious selection in faith school...
A new study commissioned by the education charity, The Sutton Trust, has called for religiously selective faith schools to make places available to local children without recourse to faith after...
View ArticleReligiously selective schools that shun poorer pupils celebrated on DfE award...
The Department for Education (DfE) has named three religiously selective schools on its shortlist of schools that are in the running for this year’s Pupil Premium Award, despite the fact that all three...
View ArticleCross-party group of MPs call for further limits to faith school’s ability to...
A cross-party group of MPs have this week tabled an Early Day Motion urging for the current limit restricting faith free schools from selecting no more than half of their pupils by faith to be extended...
View ArticlePeers critical of Government ban on FAC helping parents challenge unlawful...
In a debate in the House of Lords yesterday afternoon, parliamentarians once again voiced their opposition to the Government’s proposed ban on civil society organisations raising concerns about...
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