Leaders of Church of England schools are planning rapid expansion and have hit back at critics who say that their superior academic performance is the result of covert social selection.
In the News
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May 8th, 2009
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May 8th, 2009
The Rev. Katherine Ragsdale will soon become the first female president of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Openly lesbian, the outgoing chief of a liberal think tank that monitored the Religious Right, and best known for her abortion rights advocacy through the Washington-based Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC), Ragsdale maybe the perfect icon for untrammeled liberal Episcopalianism.
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May 8th, 2009
The row over the Government's proposed new blasphemy law rolls on, with liberals effectively crying out 'blasphemy!' in protest. Ironic, isn't it?
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May 8th, 2009
A multiple sclerosis sufferer killed herself after watching a BBC drama starring Julie Walters about assisted suicide, an inquest heard.
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May 8th, 2009
At the end of April, "L'Osservatore Romano" surprised everyone a little with the admiration it expressed for Barack Obama after his first hundred days as president of the United States.
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May 7th, 2009
Scotland Yard is to scale down its controversial stop-and-search anti-terrorism powers over fears the 'blanket' weapon could be alienating Muslims.
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May 7th, 2009
A Dutch euthanasia expert who helped a depressed woman die is to host a ?suicide? workshop in London.
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May 7th, 2009
Those aged 16 to 24 account for 10% of all new diagnoses in the UK and young men who have sex with men are most at risk, a report said.
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May 7th, 2009
MSPs were split yesterday over the controversy surrounding gay minister Scott Rennie as the number of people supporting an online petition demanding he be barred from taking up a post at Queen's Cross Church in Aberdeen rose to over 7000.
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May 7th, 2009
Speaking at the PepsiCo annual shareholders meeting yesterday, Greg Quinlan of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX) asked PepsiCo to stop using shareholder profits to fund anti-heterosexual groups.