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The Times: Poorer pupils learn to benefit from Classics
The Times: Poorer pupils learn to benefit from Classics

Latin and the works of Sophocles are no longer the preserve of public schools thanks to a project that links professors with underprivileged teenagers.

An initiative between King’s College London (KCL) and Newham Sixth Form College in east London offering lessons in Classics to bright sixth-form pupils is now in its second year.

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Charity, Education, Higher Education, Languages, Media ArticleSarah NorrisLando EducationLatin, The Times, media article, Sophocles, public schools, state schools, Kings College London, KCL, Newham Sixth Form College, classics, sixth-form, students, education, lectures, ancient literature, religion, theology, Persian History, philosophyComment
Guardian: Humanists UK launch religious-free assembly materials for schools
Guardian: Humanists UK launch religious-free assembly materials for schools

British schools are being offered a programme for morning assemblies that are entirely secular and free of religion for the first time.

All state schools in the UK are currently required to provide an act of daily worship of a “broadly Christian character” under the 1944 Education Act.

But Humanists UK, the campaign group for secularism and non-religious belief, has drawn up an alternative model that takes God out of daily school assemblies, focusing instead on respect for the individual, the environment and justice for the developing world.

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Family, Education, Media Article, ReligionSarah NorrisLando Educationeducation, religion, schools, faith, 1944 Education Act, Humanists UKComment