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Faith schools top latest primary league tables
Close to two-thirds of the UK’s best performing primary schools have a religious ethos, according to the latest league table results. The tables showed that out of the 693 schools in which all pupils achieved the…
GCHQ to help tackle 'dark net' child abuse images
Intelligence experts and organised crime specialists will join forces to tackle child abuse images on the ‘dark net’, David Cameron has said. The prime minister said a joint GCHQ and National Crime Agency unit would hunt…
No room at the inn for baby Jesus in school nativities
As annual school nativity play season gets under way, survey shows baby Jesus being edged out to make room for Elvis, spacemen, footballers and Lord Sugar. Christianity is being banished from school nativity plays as the…
Do kids know the true meaning of Christmas?
Roger Bolton writing in the Radio Times asks the question: ‘Do British schoolchildren know what Christmas is?’ In some schools in this country, little is taught about the true meaning of Christmas, possibly because secular staff…
