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  1. Landmark education acts in Northern Ireland gain assent
    May 18, 2022 · original
    TWO LANDMARK PIECES OF LEGISLATION that have the potential to make a real difference to education in Northern Ireland have now received royal assent. The Integrated Education Act and the Fair Employment (School Teachers) Act were both championed by people of both religious and non-religious conviction during their passage through the Stormont Assembly, including Northern Ireland Humanists. The new laws will end the religious exemption that existed for schools from employment discrimination laws, and will increase the number of integrated schools with a more mixed and diverse intake of pupils. Integrated education The Integrated Education Act will require the Northern Ireland Executive to aim to meet demand for places in integrated schools. It also changes the definition of integrated education so that it explicitly includes the non-religious and those of minority religions. Integrated sc
  2. Teachers strike for equality
    Apr 28, 2022 · original
    TEACHERS at a Catholic school in England have gone on strike over the cancellation of a talk by a children’s author whose books feature gay characters. Governors of the John Fisher School in Purley, Croydon, in south London, voted not to cancel Simon James Green’s visit, contrary to the recommendation of the Archdiocese of Southwark. Two governors subsequently resigned and the archdiocese sacked the rest, according to an Ofsted report. The teachers have been supported by the National Education Union and equalities campaigners across the country, including the Accord Coalition for inclusive education. Accord chair Simon Barrow commented: “Many will feel that the sacked or resigned governors and teachers are quite right here – and huge numbers of our Christian and Catholic friends and supporters agree.”
  3. Trailblazing schools win Accord Inclusivity Award
    Feb 18, 2022 · original
    A SCHOOL on a mission to become a fully anti-racist educational body, and another pioneering the promotion of peace and conflict resolution, have been announced as the winners of the annual Accord Inclusivity Award. Now in its twelfth year, the Accord Inclusivity Award rewards those schools which make special efforts to promote inclusion of and mutual understanding between people of different religions and ethnicities. The distinguished judging panel decided to issue a first and second place to schools at both the primary and secondary phases this time. The first-placed secondary school is Cotham School in Bristol which was praised for its multifaceted commitment to tackling racism. Ways this has been expressed include the senior leadership team writing an open letter to all students in response to Black Lives Matters protests, committing the school to becoming an anti-racist institution
  4. Thanks and warm wishes to our Coordinator
    Feb 17, 2022 · original
    Paul Pettinger, who has been the Accord’s National Coordinator since May 2010 has formally left the employ of the Coalition after nearly 12 years service – but he will be continuing to help out with its work in the capacity of a consultant. Simon Barrow, the Chair of Accord, said: “We are immensely grateful for the incredible service that Paul has given the Coalition for the majority of its existence to date. We are hugely sorry to see him go as Coordinator, and we wish him all the very best for the future. “Pleasingly, this is also au revoir rather than a final farewell, however. This is because Paul has kindly agreed to assist the campaign as a consultant, illustrating the mutual bond and commitment that has developed between us over the years. “It is clear that 2022 will be a transitional one for Accord, as we welcome on board new members to our Steering Committee and develop fresh op
  5. Teachers threaten legal action over Diocese’s forced academisation plan
    Feb 10, 2022 · original
    A group of teacher unions have this week written to the Secretary of State for Education, Nadhim Zahawi, and urged him to confirm that a direction issued to all Catholic voluntary aided schools in the Diocese of Hallam to join a multi-academy trust has no legal effect. The schools were notified they would need to join a multi-academy trust by letter from their Regional Schools Commissioner in December. However, in their letter to the Education Secretary the teaching unions observe that the only way schools can be forced to become an academy is if they are deemed inadequate by Ofsted or otherwise on the application of the school’s governing body, which has not occured in these school’s cases. In their letter the unions add ‘ The Academy Orders appear to have been made on the application of and/or at the behest of the Diocese. The Secretary of State is invited to confirm in writing that th
  6. Faith schools at the centre of school admissions cheating
    Jan 12, 2022 · original
    A new survey conducted by the property search website Zoopla has today revealed that parents misrepresenting their religious beliefs is the most common way families cheat school admission rules. The company found that 24% of parents of school age children admitted to cheating admission arrangements and, of these parents, 27% confessed to having exaggerated their religious beliefs to get their child into a faith school. The survey presents a fresh blow to state funded faith schools religiously selecting pupils and corresponds with earlier findings. Back in 2015 a survey commissioned by ITV found that of parents of primary school aged children, 12.6% admitted to having pretended to practice a faith in which they did not believe and 13.7% reported that they had baptised their child so that their child could access a desirable faith school. In 2018 meanwhile the education charity, The Sutton
  7. Accord welcomes Simon Barrow as its new Chair
    Jan 4, 2022 · original
    Accord’s interim Chair, Simon Barrow The writer, commentator, public policy analyst and practical theologian, Simon Barrow, has today been announced as the Accord Coalition’s new interim Chair. Simon becomes the organisation’s third Chair, and his appointment follows decades of work promoting diversity and freedom of religion and belief. Since 2005 Simon has served as co-director (and since 2016, director) of the beliefs, ethics and politics think-tank, Ekklesia . Active in the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the author of a wide range of books on public issues, his previous roles include being an assistant general secretary of the ecumenical body, Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (2003-2005). In Spring 2022 his next book, Against the Religion of Power: Telling a Different Christian Story , will be published. As well as bringing a wealth of experience to the role of Chair
  8. Diocese frustrates parents seeking to access secondary schools outside of the faith
    Dec 9, 2021 · original
    The Accord Coalition for Inclusive Education has strongly criticised the Diocese of Nottingham for seeking to frustrate parents whose children already attend a Catholic primary school from sending their children to a non-Catholic secondary school. The oppressive attitude of the Diocese has been highlighted yesterday by the education news website, Education Uncovered. The website’s report reveals how earlier this year the Diocese succeeded in getting the Office of the Schools Adjudicator to stop a local non-faith community school listing one of its primary schools as a feeder school. The Diocese explained its position by telling the Adjudicator that: “ The position of the Diocese of Nottingham, as it is in all other Catholic dioceses in England, [is] that where there is a local Catholic secondary school, we will not approve a Catholic primary school being named as a feeder school for any
  9. Guernsey maintains teacher discrimination laws after pressure from local Catholic Diocese
    Nov 13, 2021 · original
    Efforts in Guernsey to extend religious discrimination protections to teachers working and applying for jobs at faith schools have been dashed after the local Catholic Diocese threatened to close it local schools. In response the Accord Coalition has urged Catholic Church of England and Wales authorities to desist from coercing public servants. A proposal to in five year’s time end the ability of faith schools to religiously discriminate in the recruitment and employment of their teachers had been advanced by a Committee of Guernsey’s combined governmental and unicameral legislature, the States of Guernsey. Under the island’s political system, executive functions are carried out using a committee system. However, plans by the Committee for Employment and Social Security to protect faith school teachers was rejected last week at a full States of Guernsey meeting. The local Diocese had pre
  10. Church of England Diocese supports inclusive admissions for its Voluntary Controlled schools
    Nov 12, 2021 · original
    The Diocese of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich has lent its support to a Suffolk County Council proposal to set religiously inclusive admission arrangements for local faith based Voluntary Controlled schools. Voluntary Controlled faith schools are fully state funded and – unlike other types of state funded faith school, which all determine their own pupil selection criteria – have their admissions policy set by their local authority responsible for education. Sometimes local authorities, like Suffolk County Council, permit their Voluntary Controlled faith schools to select pupils by faith when oversubscribed. Research undertaken by the Accord Coalition in 2011 revealed that of the then 137 local authorities in England and Wales responsible for education with one or more Voluntary Controlled faith school, 43 permitted religious discrimination of some kind in the oversubscription criteria of thes

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