Education Secretary told HET event with Yehuda Bauer that higher education institutions backing the international definition of antisemitism is ‘not optional’
Distinguished scholars have accused the University of Glasgow of undermining academic freedom after senior staff apologised for the publication of an article critics claimed was antisemitic.
Proposals to scrap the requirement for daily collective worship in non-faith schools, and replace it with inclusive assemblies, won the backing of the former Bishop of Oxford the Rt Revd Lord Harries of Pentregarth, in the House of Lords.
A law from 1944 that mandates Christian worship in non-religious state schools in England is coming under challenge in Parliament today, as peers debate replacing it with a requirement for inclusive assemblies for all.
