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Shadow Minister for Faiths; Janet Daby MP asks the Minister for Education Nick Gibb MP a question about RE

14/10/2020

NATRE, the REC and RE Today had a very productive meeting with the Janet Daby MP in October 2020. They learned that the Shadow Minister, who is the MP for Lewisham East, had served on Lewisham SACRE and was fully conversant with the issues surrounding the subject.

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Removal of the bursary for those training to be secondary teachers of RE

14/10/2020

NATRE was very disappointed to read that bursaries for teacher training are to be severely cut for 2021-2022.

Success for persistent parent in complaint about RE at an academy

13/10/2020

NATRE was approached by a parent who was dismayed that discrete lessons in RE were being replaced by a combined life skills style programme and wanted to challenge the academy about it.

What are worldviews and why should schools teach them?

12/10/2020

Theos launches latest report ‘Worldviews in Religious Education’. In celebration of the launch of Theos’s latest report, ‘Worldviews in Religious Education’, join Theos and Culham St Gabriel’s Trust on 21st October at 7.30pm for an evening of panel discussion and Q&A, as we consider the concept of “worldview” and how it can enhance religious literacy in the UK – with particular implications for how Religious Education is taught in schools.

Farmington Scholarships now open!

08/10/2020

Open to Head teachers and UK secondary and primary school teachers, teachers of RE to children with Special Educational Needs. Academic Year 2021-22