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Tag Archives: ethnicity
Participation in Higher Education and Religion
‘Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs more likely to go to university than their Christian classmates’, proclaimed the headline to Richard Vaughan’s article in The TES for 22 July 2011. The story was subsequently picked up by the Daily Telegraph on 23 … Continue reading
Posted in Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Survey news
Tagged A Levels, Christians, Department for Education, educational attainment, ethnicity, GCSEs, higher education, Hindus, Longitudinal Study of Young People in England, LSYPE, Muslims, Richard Vaughan, sex, Sikhs, Steve Strand, TES, Times Educational Supplement
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Muslims in Prison
In December 2008 there were 9,975 Muslim prisoners in England and Wales, equivalent to 12% of the prison population. This represented a considerable increase on the 5% in 1994 and 8% in 2004 and was more than four times the … Continue reading
Posted in Official data, Survey news
Tagged ethnicity, extremism, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons, Muslims, prison, prisoners, terrorism
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Zion’s People: Profile of English Nonconformity
Protestant Nonconformity, formerly known as Religious Dissent and latterly as the Free Churches, has made a major contribution to all walks of British life, not just the religious. The movement had its origins in the puritans and separatists of Elizabethan … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, Measuring religion
Tagged Age, Baptists, British Social Attitudes Surveys, Clive Field, Congregationalists, ethnicity, Free Churches, gender, marital status, Methodists, Nonconformity, occupation, Protestant Nonconformists, Quakers, Religious Society of Friends
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