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  ‘Islamophobia’ Revisited

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  Hardeep Singh, September 2023 Islamophobia Revisited by Hardeep Singh builds on a previous collection of essays on Islamophobia published by Civitas in August 2019. Hardeep Singh returns to this topic, and in Islamophobia Revisited conducts a thorough investigation into how Islamophobia is defined by local authorities describing a ‘panoply’ of different approaches and definitions. In… Read Full Article
  
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  Breaking the Care Ceiling

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  Frank Young and Daniel Lilley, September 2023 This Civitas report provides new evidence on the number of care leavers who go to university in the UK alongside the first-ever league table of care leavers at UK universities. In 2022 the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care estimated the lifetime cost of poor outcomes for children… Read Full Article
  
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  Covid Kids

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  Joanna Williams, July 2020 In response to coronavirus, schools closed to all but the children of key workers on 20 March 2020. The majority of children did not return before the end of the academic year, meaning they will have spent over five months out of the classroom. Schools remained closed to most pupils for… Read Full Article
  
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  Exploring Religious Pluralism in the Classroom

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  David Conway, May 2024 Today, tolerance between people of different faiths is often encouraged under the heading of “British values”. This is arguably misguided, as it could be taken to imply that religious tolerance is a uniquely British value, not one found in other cultures. The insinuation, therefore, is that to encourage religious tolerance in schoolchildren in… Read Full Article
  
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  Free speech and decolonisation in British universities

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  Dr Richard Norrie, October 2022 Attacks on free speech seem to be worsening, with recent examples including the attempted assassination of Sir Salman Rushdie and the Batley teacher forced into hiding by Islamist extremists. In our universities that are supposed to be bastions of free inquiry, we are seeing staff under pressure to conform to… Read Full Article
  
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  How we think about disparity

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  Richard Norrie, December 2020 A government-appointed Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities has been set up to address disparity between ethnic or racial groups in outcomes relating to health, education, employment and other areas. This follows numerous reviews conducted by various governments since 2010. Drawing on the full array of existing reviews, this report by… Read Full Article
  
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  Islamophobia

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  Emma Webb (ed.), August 2019 In November 2018, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims published a report proposing a working definition of Islamophobia which described it as ‘a type of racism’. Despite having received barely any public scrutiny or debate, the definition has already been adopted by local councils and political parties. This volume… Read Full Article
  
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  Rethinking Race:

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  Joanna Williams, April 2021 By almost all statistical measures, Joanna Williams argues, society is less racist today than at any other point in the past century – a point which is rarely celebrated. Still less is this considered a reason to leave people to negotiate inter-cultural and inter-racial relationships for themselves. Despite there being less… Read Full Article
  
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  Show, tell and leave nothing to the imagination

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  Jo-Anne Nadler, May 2023 Writer and broadcaster Jo-Anne Nadler provides a thought-provoking analysis of trends in UK schooling which she describes as a ‘Social Justice Educational Complex’ that threatens core values of impartiality and universality in our schools. Nadler argues that a ‘revolution’ delivered ‘largely by stealth’ is supported by a burgeoning industry of external providers and… Read Full Article
  
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  Social Mobility Truths

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  Peter Saunders, November 2019 Politicians of all parties repeatedly tell us that Britain’s social mobility rate is very low, much worse than in other advanced western countries, and that very few children from working class backgrounds succeed in landing good jobs.  They claim the professions and our top universities are largely closed to people from… Read Full Article
  
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  Teachers or Parents

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  Joanna Williams, September 2024 Earlier this year, Labour leader Keir Starmer announced plans for primary teachers to supervise pupils brushing their teeth during the school day, to address rising rates of dental problems in young children. Meanwhile, teachers complain that increasing proportions of pupils begin primary school still wearing nappies – so that helping children… Read Full Article
  
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  The Commission on the Future for Independent Schools

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  January 2025 The English independent schools sector, one of the most historic and well-reputed in the world, is at a fork in the road. After decades of fluctuating political pressure and public support, it has become clear that the future for the sector will not be able to look the same as its past. A… Read Full Article
  
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