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Government to keep 50% faith cap on free school admissions

Humanists are celebrating a partial victory after the Department for Education announced it will keep restrictions on faith-based admissions criteria in new state-funded free schools in England – the so-called ‘50% cap’. However, Humanists UK, which led the campaign against these proposals, has said it is certain that new schools with 100% selective admissions policies will nevertheless… Read more »

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The Tartan army: tory candidate resigns over `thick Scots` comment.
‘Thick Scots’ Tory resigns

By politics.co.uk staff A Tory candidate who reportedly branded Scots “stupid” has been forced to step down from next year’s Holyrood election. Ivor Tiefenbrun will no longer fight the Glasgow Maryhill seat after he told The Scotsman “you would have to be thick to accept that” Baroness Thatcher was an “evil force” in Scotland. The… Read more »