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2015-04-16T18:50:10+00:00

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Learn it, live it: just make sure it conforms to British values

Last updated on: April 16, 2015 at 6:50 pm By Gill Robins

Yet another Orthodox Jewish school has just been brutally criticised by Ofsted, bringing to a total of six the number of schools within the Jewish community that have been downgraded to inadequate in recent months under new British values inspection rules. Talmud Torah Tiferes Shlomo is one of the many independent schools that educate children in the Charedi/Hassidic Jewish communities of North London. Compared with the norm, fees are minimal: some schools rely entirely on voluntary donations. Orthodox Jewish schools... Read more

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2015-04-13T14:16:03+00:00

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Training to teach, training to live

Last updated on: April 13, 2015 at 2:16 pm By Gill Robins

It’s a great pleasure to welcome Daniel Churm as a Christians in Education guest blogger. He is currently completing his PGCE in secondary RE, having first studied History and Philosophy at the University of York. Daniel grew up in the Midlands, in a Christian family and he is now an active member and worship leader in a Baptist church. You can find his personal blog at chatteringchurm.wordpress.com and follow him on Twitter @DanChurm ‘Trainee teacher’ is not a title I love. It suggests a level of... Read more

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2015-04-06T10:07:42+00:00

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Creation in the classroom – what you are really afraid of

Last updated on: April 6, 2015 at 10:07 am By Gill Robins

An interesting week in the CIE blogosphere – a week full of people with opinions. There’s nothing wrong with that, of course, except when people think that their opinion is the only acceptable truth and that what they believe, everyone else must also believe. Well, just because you have an opinion, it doesn’t make you right. On March 31, I posted a blog titled ‘Creation in the classroom – what are you afraid of?’ The footnote was quite clear –... Read more

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2015-03-31T09:15:29+00:00

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Creation in the classroom – what are you afraid of?

Last updated on: March 31, 2015 at 9:15 am By Gill Robins

I had the good fortune, as a student, to be taught by an outstanding historian. He taught me various skills that have proved useful, not least the ability to walk around an idea and consider it from every possible angle before forming an opinion. He also possessed a handy store of aphorisms, one of which was a warning never to embrace an ism. An ism, he argued, is nothing more than a dogma derived from an otherwise interesting idea; in... Read more

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2015-03-24T10:13:17+00:00

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The mark of a true ambassador

Last updated on: March 24, 2015 at 10:13 am By Gill Robins

One year on: whilst sorting through some blogs which I wrote last year, I came across the following – the key theme is still relevant. It turned out that the Prime Minister was applying for a place for his daughter in a faith school at the time, which may, or may not, have been the motivation for his public comment. Unions are again threatening strike action (this year against the unknown, soon-to-be-elected government in advance of conference season) and politicians are still making... Read more

Role of faith in education

2015-03-16T19:55:45+00:00

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CHIPS, scales and an equitable society

Last updated on: March 16, 2015 at 7:55 pm By Gill Robins

In a letter to MPs recently about the British values agenda, Nicky Morgan, Secretary of State for Education, wrote that although the agenda itself was nothing new, the inclusion of the Equality Act 2010 marked ‘a dramatic change in education policy’. Without any effective consultation, there ensued the pursuit of what one MP has described as ‘a kind of state imposed orthodoxy on certain moral and religious questions’. The issue that Ofsted chose to pursue in its no notice inspections... Read more

Respect and tolerance

2015-03-10T13:26:43+00:00

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Sending faith schools to the naughty step – again

Last updated on: March 10, 2015 at 1:26 pm By Gill Robins

Kingdom United? asks the Social Integration Commission report published recently, before further disuniting it by rapidly despatching faith schools to the naughty step (again, but we’re getting used to it). Without so much as a single shred of evidence, the blame for social segregation is laid at the door of free schools which are, apparently, dominated by single faith groups. According to a Telegraph review, faith schools are boosting extremism and stunting children’s life chances. Politically motivated from its first... Read more

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2015-03-05T16:48:25+00:00

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The politics of hope in a post secular society

Last updated on: March 5, 2015 at 4:48 pm By Gill Robins

From food banks to education, community enterprise and social welfare, faith-based organisations are playing an increasingly vital role in society. Politicians seem more than happy for this to happen, just as long as the faith which motivates the action remains a private affair. So just how should Christians respond to the secular society which they serve and on which they have such an impact? There is no doubt that religion is playing a significant role in the political debate running... Read more

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2015-03-02T13:47:03+00:00

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Moral bankruptcy in a growing economy: just what is the purpose of education?

Last updated on: March 2, 2015 at 1:47 pm By Gill Robins

‘Schools should do more’ proclaimed Prime Minister David Cameron, yet again making schools the stalking horse for every social woe. We’ve had doing more to prevent radicalisation, doing more to prevent extremism, doing more to raise standards, doing more, more, more. What this time? Schools should do more because: ‘Children need to know how money is made, about turning over a profit’. OK, so he was speaking to the Institute of Directors about how to bring children’s ambition alive by... Read more

2015-02-25T16:17:35+00:00

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Work. Play. Love.

Last updated on: February 25, 2015 at 4:17 pm By Gill Robins

It took me a while to get into this book by Mark Shaw , but once I did, I found myself mining a deep vein of Biblical thinking which yielded plenty on which to reflect. Described as a visual guide to calling, career and the mission of God, it examines a holistic approach to life in which work, relationships and faith are viewed as integrated strands of one single thread. Designed for a visually literate generation, key points are presented throughout... Read more

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