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A
letter has been sent to Sir Michael Wilshaw, newly appointed Chief Inspector (HMCI) at Ofsted, regarding the
new Ofsted framework and our concerns about RE. The letter has gone jointly
from the RE Council and NATRE.
Click here to download a copy of the letter. |
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Report on RE Community Weekend |
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The full conference proceedings of
the Wokefield Park RE Community Weekend on 1 - 2 October 2011 are now
available. Click here to access the full report. |
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The Times | Thursday 22 December 2011 | Letters
If the Prime Minister is serious about
religious values, he should ensure that RE stays on the curriculum at all
levels.
Having underlined the significance of the religious
dimension in underpinning personal and communal values, David Cameron is in the
ironic position of having an Education Secretary who appears to be dismantling
the very school subject committed to teaching about these issues.
Already Michael Gove has left RE out of the English
Baccalaureate; last week he put two-thirds of the secondary RE university
teacher training courses at risk of closure, and has so far failed to include
RE in the review of the school curriculum.
A new year's resolution by Mr Gove to reverse the downward
spiral in RE would still be in time.
John Keast
Chair of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales |
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A Strategic Plan for the next five years was adopted by the REC Board at its meeting on 21 September 2011,
to help it address some of the issues now facing
RE as a subject. The REC's purpose in taking this forward will be:
1. To promote high quality teaching, learning and assessment in RE
2. To influence the development of public policy and public understanding of RE
3. To promote a coherent professional development strategy for RE
4. To secure adequate and sustainable resources for the REC
5. To secure effective structures and operation for the REC
To see the full plan, click here
To download the PDF, click here |
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Religious Education in England - A Unique Opportunity and Challenge |
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John Keast, Chair of the Religious Education Council, October 2011
Three previous papers have described the critical situation which RE
in England has faced over the past eighteen months, and outlined the threats to
RE arising from the contextual, legal, curriculum and qualifications changes
taking place in English education. This paper argues that the critical issues
RE faces actually present it with a unique opportunity to develop a new and
positive way forward for the subject that is both exciting but challenging.
Failure to grasp this opportunity will set RE back by decades; a co-operative
endeavour will provide the basis for future stability and greater success.
A critical but not fatal
situation for RE in 2011 |
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