Response to Queens Speech by BHA on Academies, faith schools, Admissions & Curriculum

The British Humanist Association responds to the following paragraphs in The Queen’s Speech, 25th May 2010:-

• Academies “Legislation will be introduced to enable more schools to achieve academy status, give teachers greater freedoms over the curriculum.” 
• Faith Schools “Legislation will be introduced to…give teachers greater freedom over the curriculum and allow new providers to run state schools.” 

In Conservative-LibDem Coalition Agreement:-

• Admissions the Government states that it wants to ‘facilitate inclusive admissions policies in as many [faith] schools as possible.’
• Curriculum In its more general education programme, the Government has announced that it will ensure ‘all schools have greater freedom over the curriculum’.