Religious Education Network

Working Together for Outstanding Religious Education

The Religious Education Network Conference 2024 Saturday 23rd November 2024

The dynamic and exciting inaugural conference is a must for thinking educators!

Keynote speakers

Sir Anthony Seldon AI and the Future of Education
Msgr Dr Michael Nazir-Ali The Role of Religion in Modern Society
Dr Richard Kueh Knowledge-rich RE [by video link]

There is a choice from NINE workshops covering these topics:

Leading a successful RE department
Teaching Islam
Theology, Philosophy & Religion curriculum
What’s wrong with ‘worldviews’
Constructing an Outstanding Agreed Syllabus
Teaching Hinduism
A Catholic Education
Understanding Islam in the Classroom
The Disciplines of RE Learning

All at The Broadway Academy, The Broadway, Perry Barr, Birmingham, B20 3DP, refreshments 10am, conference starts at 10.30am and concludes at 4pm, lunch provided.

Click here for the profiles of all speakers

Applications should be made here

Deep and meaningful? The Ofsted religious education subject report, April 2024

The Religious Education Network welcomes this Ofsted Report, and we hope that its Recommendations can now form the basis for positive action by Government ministers. Some 50 schools agreed to be surveyed from 2021 – 2023, half primary and half secondary (of which 15 had sixth forms). This might be considered unrepresentative granted the 25,000+ schools and colleges in the country, but readers will find the Report’s conclusions do reflect the wider picture well.

Religion and Worldviews. REALLY?

Do you know that the current extensive promotion of Religion and Worldviews by major resourcers and providers of RE has no Government support and it is not a part of Government policy?

The Department for Education does not advise schools on what the content of their RE curricula should be, nor does it endorse the National Content Standard and views it in the same way as any other curriculum-related document produced by a non-statutory body i.e. it is a view shared by some key RE stakeholders which schools may form their own opinions of, but the NCS requires no particular action by the DfE.

See the REN response to the National Content standard on the News and What’s On page, and Professor Keith Ward’s article.

Check the new list of upcoming events on the News and What’s On page

Latest news

Personal Knowldeged analysed

Richard Coupe gave this talk at the June conference of the Association of University Lecturers in RE and the Assocaition of RE Inspectors, Advisors and Consultants

Hinduism and Worldviews

Seeta Lakhani blasts the approach to Hinduism taken in Religion and Worldviews.

Religion and Worldviews

Have you got your copy yet? If you are a thinking and reflective teacher of RE you need to read this book: Religion and Worldviews: The Triumph of the Secular in Religious Education

See links and resources

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