Published: August 31st 2008 - at 2:26 am

Accord challenges fight-schools funding


by Newswire    

Leading academics, authors and scientists are launching a campaign to stop state-funded faith schools from discriminating against students and teachers on the grounds of religion.

From Monday, such schools will be allowed to include faith as a selection criterion for teaching and non-teaching posts, reserving more places for people from the same religious background.

In some schools this will expand to include the headteacher while in others this would apply to non-teaching jobs, such as classroom assistants and cooks.

The new rules coincide with the launch of Accord, a coalition of Hindu, Christian and Humanist organisations, which claims that they will further restrict the employment rights of staff in state-funded faith schools and that discrimination of this kind is illegal in other state schools.

… continued at the Guardian

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Indy – Faith school discrimination ‘will fragment education’
BBC – New pressure over faith schools


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This is an outrage. How will we take on the Germans next time if our children don’t attend proper fight-schools?


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