Policy pages

The theme for this issue of REtoday is ‘visions’, and this complements the first key finding in a recently published report on RE teachers (Arthur et al. 2019). This report, freely available online from the Jubilee...

Chris Boxley, of the RE Today Editorial Team, has a warning about diversity.

Working as part of the NATRE Executive over the last six years has allowed me to see first hand the terrific work that goes on for the benefit of RE. I have met some outstanding people; people with wisdom, experience,...

As reported by NATRE, based on the REC, NATRE and RE Today’s ‘The State of the Nation’ report (2017), workforce data shows that 28 per cent of schools are failing to allocate curriculum time for RE. RE is a...

This subject is often debated in the RE community. Why should parents have the right to withdraw their children from RE and not any other subject? The original withdrawal clause stems from the 1944 Education Reform Act,...

How can we raise the performance of pupil premium children within RE, such that they achieve as well as other pupils nationally? Can these findings have a positive effect on the performance of pupil premium children...

I wrote this short piece after a talk from the brilliant Mary Myatt about the new inspection framework. See what you think. The new Ofsted framework will use, from this year, three key ideas about the curriculum,...