General Article Faith schools

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Many of those concerns centre on the role of all schools to promote social cohesion against a backdrop of increasing government interest and investment in faith schools. Government policy perceives faith schools as a vehicle for delivering higher academic achievements, increased parental choice and coherent morality systems for pupils. As the evidence on whether current faith schools actually deliver these objectives is mixed, it is highly questionable that their expansion will do so, and the...

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