More on Education

To read our Diocesan Director of Education's measured and helpful response to the Bishop of Oxford's recent remarks on church schools, see
http://www.riponleeds.anglican.org/news_341.html

To understand the Bishop's advice, it is necessary to grasp that while a small number (less than a third) of all church schools are voluntary aided and therefore eligible to set their own admissions policy, many of these are secondary schools and their policies have a very influential effect on educational opportunity in the areas they serve. (See my post  22nd April Education; the Bishop of Oxford's Advice on Church Schools) for earlier comment and for a link to the Bishop of Oxford's own words on the matter.)