Tag Archives: Faith schools

Senior Staff Recruitment in Faith Schools

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Recruitment to senior staff posts in Anglican and – especially – Catholic faith schools continues to be more problematical than average according to the sixteenth annual report on The State of the Labour Market for Senior Staff in Schools in … Continue reading →

Posted in Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Almut Sprigade, Church of England schools, Education Data Surveys, Faith schools, head teachers, John Howson, recruitment, Roman Catholic schools, schools | Leave a comment

Roman Catholic School Statistics

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Roman Catholic schools have long formed a key part of the state school system in Great Britain, accounting for about one in ten of all maintained school places in England and Wales. These schools receive 100% of their running costs … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations | Tagged Catholic Education Service for England and Wales, Faith schools, Newman Demographic Survey, Pastoral Research Centre, Roman Catholic schools, Tony Spencer | 1 Comment

Daybreak Surveys Religion

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Clive D. Field

Daybreak is the new breakfast television programme for the ITV network, anchored by Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley and launched on 6 September. It has made an early entry into surveying public opinion by commissioning YouGov to run a poll on … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged attendance at religious services, child abuse, Christianity, church weddings, Citizenship Survey, Daybreak, Faith schools, inter-faith marriage, ITV, paedophilia, papal visit, Pope Benedict XVI, Religious Affiliation, religious leaders, respect, Roman Catholic Church, sexual abuse, YouGov | Leave a comment

Papal Visit – More Surveys

Posted on September 4, 2010 by Clive D. Field

We recently reported (http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=517) on an opinion poll conducted in Scotland on attitudes towards the forthcoming (16-19 September) state and pastoral visit of Pope Benedict XVI to England and Scotland. Today (4 September) two surveys conducted among representative samples of … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Act of Settlement, Caritas in Veritate, Catholic social teaching, Christian culture, Church of England, ComRes, economics, Elena Curti, environment, Faith schools, human rights, Ipsos-MORI, morality, paedophilia, papal encyclical, papal visit, Paul Woolley, Pope Benedict XVI, Queen, Richard Norman, Roman Catholic Church, Rowan Williams, sexual abuse, sexuality, state visit, The Tablet, Theos, women priests | 3 Comments

Faith Schools

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Clive D. Field

ICM Research has just posted on its website the results of a ‘faith schools survey’ undertaken by telephone between 25 and 27 June 2010 among a representative sample of 1,003 adult Britons aged 18 and over. They were randomly selected from the … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Barnes Hassid Productions, Channel 4, Faith schools, government, ICM Research, Muslim schools, religious education, Richard Dawkins | Leave a comment

Attitudes to new academy faith schools

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Siobhan McAndrew

The Academies Act 2010 is well underway, having received its Second Reading in the House of Commons on Monday 19 July, and with Committee days due this week. A number of private and state religious schools have indicated interest in becoming state-funded academies, among about 1500 schools overall so far.
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Posted in Religion in public debate | Tagged Academies, BHA, British Humanist Association, Creationism, Denominational Schools, education, Faith schools, ICM Research | Leave a comment

Christian Schools and Social Selectivity

Posted on April 17, 2010 by Clive D. Field

A new report from the Sutton Trust suggests that Christian state secondary schools in England are more socially selective than their secular counterparts. Entitled Worlds Apart: Social Variation among Schools, it has been prepared by Alan Smithers and Pamela Robinson … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Alan Smithers, Christian schools, Faith schools, IDACI, income deprivation, Pamela Robinson, social selectivity, Sutton Trust, University of Buckingham | Leave a comment

Jewish Schools in Redbridge

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The current issue (12 March 2010) of the Jewish Chronicle includes an article by Simon Rocker on the results of a survey of parents of Jewish pupils attending the three Jewish schools (two primary, one high) in the London borough … Continue reading →

Posted in Survey news | Tagged Admissions policies, Faith schools, Jewish Leadership Council, Jewish schools, Redbridge | Leave a comment

Examination Performance of Muslim Schools

Posted on February 28, 2010 by Clive D. Field

The current issue (No. 250, 26 February 2010) of The Muslim News, the independent monthly newspaper for Muslims in the UK, features a league table of the 2009 GCSE (and equivalent) examination performance of 1,683 students attending 63 Muslim schools … Continue reading →

Posted in News from religious organisations | Tagged Faith schools, Muslim schools, public examinations | Leave a comment

Thanks for your query. There are no recent British data on these topics which spring to mind, at least so…

Is there any data on the number of converts to Christianity from Islam and vice versa in the UK?

The census of population (2001, 2011, 2021) is the main statistical source for non-Christian and other faiths and groups. Jews…

Very interesting

Where are the statistics for other religious groups? In addition, analysis on the differences between 1st to 3rd generation migrant…

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