Thanks to new research by Richard Dawkins and John Pritchard which will be presented at this debate, we now have a good idea of the place that religion actually has in UK schools today. But what place should it have? And is there still a place for ‘faith schools’, old and new?

Date: Wednesday 22 February 2012
Time: 5.30-7pm
Venue: RUSI, 61 Whitehall, London SW1A 2ET
Speakers: Robert Jackson and Jim Conroy

Registration required. If you would like to take part in the debate, please email p.ainsworth@lancaster.ac.uk.
When registering, please let us know which of the following categories best describes you 'Academic', 'Faith-based Organisations and Voluntary Sector', 'Media', 'Policy', 'Religious Communities' or 'Other'.

This event is part of a series called Faith Debates: Debating the latest research on religion in public life, organised by Linda Woodhead, Charles Clarke and Rebecca Catto: http://www.religionandsociety.org.uk/faith_debates.
Funded by the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme in partnership with Theos.

For biographies of the researchers and speakers referred to above, please follow the links at http://www.religionandsociety.org.uk/faith_debates/people/faith_in_schools.