As reported in today’s The Telegraph, a sikh teenager who was excluded from school after refusing to take off a religious bangle has won her discrimination case at the High Court.
Sarika Watkins-Singh, 14, was reprimanded for breaking the “no jewellery” rule at Aberdare Girls’ School in South Wales last year.
In court, she said wearing the [...]

Thanks to Black Sun for alerting me to this example of wingnuttery on my doorstep.
From the AP (via MSNBC):
EDINBURGH, Scotland - Donovan, famous for ’60s pop hits such as “Hurdy Gurdy Man” and “Mellow Yellow,” has announced plans to open the Invincible Donovan University, where students will adhere to the principles of transcendental meditation [TM].
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Donovan [...]

Professor Michael Reiss, scientist, priest and head of science at London’s Institute of Education, has written a new book aimed at encouraging teachers, who it seems are avoiding the teaching of evolution in schools for fear of the “controversy” and not wanting to dismiss creationist pupils’ beliefs out of hand.
This could leave pupils with gaps [...]

Atheist Ethicist has written an interesting and thoughtful article about the idea of faith hospitals.
I wonder if/when the UK government, to back up it’s proclivity to support faith-based institutions (as demonstrated in it’s increasing promotion of faith schools), will begin introducing the concept of faith hospitals. We’ll need something to replace the many hospitals [...]

In the most recent of The Times Higher Education Supplement, an article by Rowan Williams, the Archibishop of Canterbury, entitled It is not a crime to hold traditional values argues that the recent arguments over Christian Union (CU) organisations within various universities should be able to associate freely, and should look at their attitudes and [...]

In today’s The Independent there is a feature about zoologist Richard Dawkins and his new foundation, the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science.
Professor Dawkins will also be the subject of You Ask the Questions in The Independent next Monday.
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A Muslim classroom assistant suspended by a school for wearing a veil in lessons has been sacked.
Aishah Azmi, 23, was asked to remove the veil after the Church of England school in Dewsbury, West Yorks, said pupils found it hard to understand her.
More at BBC News
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