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What is Religious Education For? Getting the National Framework Right

What is Religious Education for? - Event Report

As part of the "basic curriculum" RE is compulsory in state schools for all pupils whose parents do not withdraw them, as is their right. Yet, uniquely for a compulsory subject, RE has always remained outside the remit of the National Curriculum leaving syllabuses and standards to be determined locally by Agreed Syllabus Conferences (ASCs) and Standing Advisory Councils for RE (SACREs). On 20th January 2004, the Institute for Public Policy Research, with the support of the British Humanist Association, held an afternoon seminar entitled What is RE for? Getting the National Framework Right. As the Government and QCA consider the formulation of the first ever National Framework for RE, this roundtable discussion aimed to provide a space to explore some of the pertinent issues and feed into the debate. Ben Rogers, Senior Research Fellow at ippr, chaired the event. Attendees included a range of policy makers, practitioners and academics providing the opportunity for a wide array of contributions.