Prime Minister under pressure to boost religion GCSEs

Written by Super User 13 May 2011

David Cameron is facing calls to revise exam league tables to ensure that religious education is at the heart of the secondary school curriculum. A campaign to include RE in the new English baccalaureate has won the support of 110,000 people, including faith leaders and 100 MPs. Before last year’s election, Mr Cameron said any petition with more than 100,000 signatures would be eligible for debate in the House of Commons. The RE. ACT campaign is calling on the Prime Minister to honour his pre-election pledge and allow MPs to discuss revising the school reforms. The Coalition’s new English baccalaureate was introduced in an attempt to address years of ‘dumbing down’ in which pupils have been able to opt for so-called soft courses at the expense of traditional academic subjects. (See also Prayer Alert 04 & 11-2011)

Pray: that the results of this campaign will lead our government to include RE in the baccalaureate. (Dt.32:2)

More: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/secondaryeducation/8501012/David-Cameron-under-pressure-to-boost-religion-GCSEs.html

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