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June 2016

June 28, 2016

Pastor jailed for stealing over £4-million from UK schools

Nigerian pastor Sam Kayode, above, has begun a nine-year jail sentence for stealing millions from...

June 22, 2016

Jewish school in London slammed for promoting sexism

A Jewish boys’ school in London has been criticised by education watchdog Ofsted after it...

June 19, 2016

Texas voters reject deranged education board candidate

Mary Lou Bruner, above, a 69-year-old former schoolteacher, this week lost her bid to for...

June 08, 2016

Education Minister vows to act over Christian propaganda

Australia's Minister for Education, Kate Jones, above, yesterday confirmed that the Department of Education would...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

Swiss ruling: Muslim pupils must shake teachers' hands

Muslim schoolboys in Switzerland have been told they must shake their female teachers’ hands or see...

May 23, 2016

Faced with a lawsuit, Ohio school bans 'The Lord's Prayer'

Thanks to an intervention by the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF), the East Liverpool High...

May 22, 2016

New website exposes dangers of a 'faith-based' education

Launched earlier this month, Faith Schoolers Anonymous sets out to to document the experiences of...

May 16, 2016

'Illegal' schools are unsafe and provide sub-standard education

Following a report earlier this month that New York rabbis are strongly resisting official attempts...

May 06, 2016

Addicted to debauchery: jail for deputy head of Catholic school

Peter Allott, 37, above, a respected deputy head at a prestigious London Catholic school, has...

May 02, 2016

Head Teachers' union wants RE lessons opt-out scrapped

Parents in the UK currently have the right to pull their children out of religious...

May 01, 2016

C of E faith schooling edged me towards atheism

I had the misfortune of going to a Church of England first school. Christianity was...

April 2016

April 28, 2016

Male and female teachers segregated at Muslim schools

Last year Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw, above, wrote to the Education Secretary Nicky Morgan...

April 27, 2016

Bangladesh: two teachers jailed for insulting Islam

Invoking an arcane law from British colonial rule that makes insulting any religion a crime,...

April 17, 2016

School accused of persecuting 'Jesus Lunch' providers

Every Tuesday, in a park near Middleton High School in Wisconsin, a bunch of faith-heads...

April 05, 2016

Muslim handshake exemption sparks uproar in Switzerland

Swiss Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga, above, is among a number of politicians and educators who...

March 2016

March 21, 2016

More young folk in Singapore are proving resistant to religion

The Catholic Church, along with other denominations, have apparently hit a brick wall in Singapore,...

March 19, 2016

Gender segregation: breaking the law to appease Islamism

Students and staff at the London School of Economics (LSE) are accustomed to being in...

March 16, 2016

Tory plan could vastly increase religious influence in schools

Last Thursday, the British Humanist Association reported that, 'in further signs of the creeping influence...

March 08, 2016

Scottish Humanists: 'Rid us of these unelected religious reps'

A report published by the Humanist Society of Scotland reveals that 88 religious representatives have...

February 2016

February 19, 2016

Muslim teachers banned for immersing pupils in Islam

Two teachers involved in the 'Trojan Horse' scandal in Birmingham schools have been banned for...

February 19, 2016

Rabbi slams 19th-century mentality Jewish faith schools

Reacting to damning Ofted reports about two orthodox Jewish schools in north London, Rabbi Charley...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

Schools have a duty to promote evolution far more robustly

Atheist headteacher Tom Sherrington, above, earned praise from Richard Dawkins and others after he went...

January 18, 2016

Be fruitful and multiply

Genesis 1.28 goes on to command that the Earth be subdued and to give dominion...

January 17, 2016

Set for closure: London school that refuses to teach English

Britain’s Department for Education has ordered a haredi Orthodox Jewish school in north London to...

January 15, 2016

In Iceland, no young people believe God created the world

A new study conducted by the polling firm Maskína on behalf of Siðmennt, the Icelandic...

January 14, 2016

Exposed: schools that abuse kids and keep them ignorant

Documents, submitted to a government consultation on the threat of radicalisation within British schools and...

January 11, 2016

Please help fund an atheist nursery school in Uganda

Today I learned that a California-based organisation called the Brighter Brains Institute has just launched...

January 09, 2016

Hundreds abused at boys' choir school run by Pope's brother

For 30 years Pope Benedict’s 'sadistic' elder brother, Georg Ratzinger, 91, above, ran a famous...

January 07, 2016

Muslims and Christians grovel to the same god. Or do they?

An evangelical college near Chicago found itself at the centre of a row after it...

March 2010

March 19, 2010

Muslims targeted head teacher

A HEAD teacher who was hounded out of her job by a pair of Islamic...