Updates

What will students learn?

The proposed National Entitlement to an education in Religion and Worldviews would ensure that all pupils in all schools are entitled to high-quality education in the subject and that the curriculum is structured so that it is fit for purpose and relevant for today’s pupils and their lives in a modern and multi-religious and multi-secular world.

The proposal says:
Pupils are entitled to be taught, by well qualified and resourced teachers, so that they gain knowledge and understanding about:

What religion is and worldviews are, and how they are studied.
The impact of religious and non …

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Role of RE in schools debated on BBC One

There has been extensive media coverage since the Telegraph misrepresented NATRE’s anti-racist RE materials in an article on 15 June. NATRE were invited to take part in a discussion on BBC1’s Sunday Morning Live on 27th June.

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Archive

September 2024 – A national plan for Religious Education, we need your help

January 2024 – Beyond the bursary success

September 2023 – Government must back RE

September 2022 – Exam results strengthen the call for a National Plan

March 2022 – Parliamentary Roundtable sees call for National Plan for RE

September 2021 – Nearly two thirds of Brits see RE as an important subject

November 2020 – Opening up the conversation on the future of RE

September 2019 – Ofsted inspection framework gives new hope for future of RE

November 2018 – RE must change for modern Britain

September 2017 – 800,000 secondary pupils lose out on religious literacy

Summer 2016 – RE teacher trainee applications soar

Spring 2015 – New drive to attract RE teachers

Autumn 2014 – A new dawn for RE

Spring 2014 – Pressure mounts on Ministers over RE

November 2013 – New RE review to reverse subject’s decline

June 2013 – Primary teachers under-prepared to teach RE

May 2013 – Government stats highlight lack of qualified RE teachers

March 2013 – RE teachers lack training and support, say MPs

February 2013 – One cheer for Mr Gove