UK court: non-religious views should be part of curriculum

  25 November 2015    Read: 683
UK court: non-religious views should be part of curriculum
Britain`s High Court has ruled that the nation`s education secretary erred in failing to include non-religious views in the curriculum on religious studies.
The ruling came after three families supported by the British Humanist Association sued for a judicial review. Some 28 religious leaders, including the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, urged the government to reconsider the decision to leave humanism out.

Judge Mark Warby ruled that Education Secretary Nicky Morgan should have taken care to make sure the religious studies curriculum conveyed the pluralistic nature of the U.K.

Changes to the content of the curriculum were announced in February. Those changes led to complaints that priority was given to religious views including as Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism.

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