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Tag Archives: Department for Education
Counting Religion in Britain, July 2020
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 58, July 2020 features 17 new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link: No 58 July 2020 … Continue reading
Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, church attendance, Covid-19, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, Religious Census, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged Aidan Connaughton, Aisha Phoenix, Alison Scott-Baumann, Allchurches Trust, Annual Population Survey, anti-Semitic incidents, Anti-Semitism, Ariana Monique Salazar, Aston University, attendance at religious services, biologists, black and minority ethnic groups, Brandon Vaidyanathan, British citizenship, children and young people, Christian Aid, Christine Tamir, Church of England, Clergy Discipline Measure, climate change, community needs, Community Security Trust, coronavirus, Covid-19, David Johnson, Deltapoll, Department for Education, Di Di, Elaine Howard Ecklund, ethnicity, Faith schools, focaldata, Gallup, gay conversion therapy, God, good values, Hope Not Hate, importance of religion, Institute for Jewish Policy Research, Ipsos-MORI, Islam, Islamic State, Islamophobia, Jews, Kirstin Matthews, Mathew Guest, morality, mortality, Muslims, Office for National Statistics, Opinium Research, Oxford University Press, Ozanne Foundation, Pew Global Attitudes Project, Pew Research Center, physicists, places of worship, prayer, racial inequality, racism, Religious Affiliation, religious census, religious prejudice, Robert Thomson, Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Savanta ComRes, science, Shamima Begum, Sheldon Community, Shuruq Naguib, Sikh Federation UK, Steven Lewis, Sunday Times, Tarek Al-Baghal, Templeton World Charity Foundation, The Observer, Yenn Lee, YouGov
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Counting Religion in Britain, July 2019
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 46, July 2019 features 17 new sources of British religious statistics. The contents list appears below and a PDF version of the full text can be downloaded from the following link: No 46 July 2019 … Continue reading
Posted in church attendance, Historical studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion in public debate, Religion in the Press, Religious beliefs, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged active Christians, admired living public figures, Amy Unsworth, anti-Semitic incidents, Anti-Semitism, armed forces, Ben Clements, British Social Attitudes Survey, Cabinet Office, Centre for Media Monitoring, Channel 4, charitable giving, Christian Aid, civil service, climate change, Community Life Survey, Community Security Trust, compatibility with British way of life, ComRes, Conservative Party, Countryside Alliance, Dalai Lama, David Voas, Department for Digital Culture Media and Sport, Department for Education, diet, European Values Study, Faisal Hanif, Faith schools, Hope Not Hate, International Social Survey Programme, Islam, Jeremy Corbyn, Jews, Kantar Public, Labour Party, media, mental health problem, Ministry of Defence, Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, money management, Muslim Council of Britain, National Centre for Social Research, Nick Spencer, ORB International, political party members, Pope Francis, Populus, Religious Affiliation, religious beliefs, religious hate crime, religious prejudice, science, Scotland, Scottish Government, secularization, Steve Bruce, The Times, Theos, volunteering, YouGov
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Counting Religion in Britain, August 2018
Counting Religion in Britain, No. 35, August 2018 features 22 new sources. It can be read in full below. Alternatively, you can download the PDF version: No 35 August 2018 OPINION POLLS Boris Johnson and the burka The debate over the … Continue reading
Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, church attendance, Ministry studies, News from religious organisations, Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Religion in public debate, Religious beliefs, Religious Census, Religious prejudice, Survey news
Tagged A Levels, Allan Vint, Anti-Semitism, apology, Asian elephants, attendance at religious services, BBC Asian Network, BMG Research, Boris Johnson, Brexit, British Asians, Burka, census of population, Censuswide, Charity Awareness Monitor, Church of England, Church of Scotland, church schools, ComRes, Conservative Party, criticism of Christianity, dating apps, Deltapoll, Department for Education, discipline, division and conflict, Donald Trump, England, ethnicity, European Union, evangelicals, Faith schools, Fraser Sutherland, GCSEs, Greg Smith, Hindus, Humanist Society Scotland, Humanists UK, Immigration, importance of religion, inter-faith relationships, Ipsos-MORI, Islamophobia, Israel, Jeremy Corbyn, Jewish News, Jews, Joint Council for Qualifications, Labour Party, lifestyle, Linda Woodhead, local politicians, Matthew Weldon, ministry, Muslims, National Records of Scotland, National Secular Society, Newsbeat, nfpSynergy, Opinium Research, personal identity, populism, Populus, Radio 4, Rafaela Dancygier, Religion State and Society, Religious Affiliation, religious beliefs, religious broadcasting, religious prejudice, Religious Statistics, religious studies, school admissions, Scotland, Scottish Government, Sikhs, Sky Data, social integration, Sun on Sunday, Sunday Express, Survation, Tell MAMA, The Observer, Thought for the Day, tourism, Tunisia, uniformed organizations, volunteering, YouGov, Young People in Scotland Survey, Youth United Foundation
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Religion, Identity, and Other Issues
Church of England and Britishness Although only a tiny minority attends its services, and very many are critical of its stance on diversity issues, the majority of Britons (51%) still consider the Church of England to be important in defining … Continue reading
Posted in Historical studies, Official data, Religion and Ethnicity, Religion and Politics, Religion in the Press, Religious Census, Survey news
Tagged abortion, Action for Happiness, BBC, Ben Clements, bibliometrics, British Social Attitudes Surveys, Britishness, Buddhism, census of population, Church of England, David Gellner, Department for Education, European Values Studies, happiness, Hinduism, InFuse, multiple religious identities, Nepalis, Opinion Research Centre, personal identity, Religion [journal], Religious Affiliation, religious education, religious leadership, religious newspapers, religious/spiritual life, Sociology [journal], Sondra Hausner, Steven Engler, Sunday Times, teachers, The Tablet, The Times, YouGov
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Inclusivity of Faith Schools
‘England’s faith state schools are on average failing to mirror their local communities by shunning the poorest pupils in their area, an analysis by The Guardian of the latest government figures shows’, Simon Rogers wrote on the newspaper’s datablog on … Continue reading
Catholic School Statistics, 2011
A higher proportion of pupils at Roman Catholic schools come from the 10% most deprived areas than those attending English schools as a whole, the Catholic Education Service for England and Wales (CESEW) claimed in a press release on 30 … Continue reading
English Baccalaureate and Faith Schools
A Government press release on 31 August trumpeted that its controversial introduction of the English Baccalaureate (or eBacc) has had an immediate impact on reversing the historic decline in pupils taking ‘traditional’ or more ‘academic’ GCSE subjects. And nowhere does … Continue reading
Posted in Official data, Religion in public debate, Survey news
Tagged Department for Education, EBacc, English Baccalaureate, Faith schools, GCSEs, General Certificate of Secondary Education, NatCen, National Centre for Social Research, religious education, religious studies, Sam Clemens
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