Senior church figures have told the Education Secondary that secondary schools are restricting students’ spiritual and moral development by failing to organise regular collective worship. Representatives of the Anglican, Baptist, Methodist and Roman Catholic churches also asked Alan Johnson to introduce training in running religious assemblies and remind schools of their legal obligations. The joint statement said collective worship helped “equip young people to understand more about themselves, foster a sense of the aesthetic and to cope with life-changing moments”. Ofsted admits that only 17 per cent of secondary schools comply with the law in holding a daily “broadly Christian” assembly. Meanwhile, Oxford University has announced it is to revive its RE training to meet a national shortage of teachers of RE which has become the fastest-growing subject at GCSE and A-level.
Sources: The Guardian (13/6); Times Educational Supplement (16/6)
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,1796232,00.html
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