The Curriculum and Assessment Review for RE

17 Nov 2025

The ISRSA is pleased to publish the attached response to the recent Curriculum and Assessment Review. This document sets out our considered analysis of the review’s recommendations for Religious Education, including the proposal to make RE a national curriculum...

Proposed Statutory Guidance for RE

28 May 2025

The ISRSA are pleased to publish a new proposal for a curriculum framework for Religious Education in England The ISRSA has recently published this document, suggesting a pathway to ensuring academically rigorous and pedagogically realistic RE teaching that focuses on...

New article from Cecilia Bidie

24 Nov 2023

Ceclia Bidie is Head of Theology, Philosophy and Religion at Wetherby Prep School. She is also a member of the ISRSA Council. She has an article on the importance of Religious Studies published in the most recent issue of Prep School Magazine. You can read the article...

Keep up to date with the attempt to change RS to R&W

11 Jan 2023

Professor Philip Barnes (Kings College, London) here responds to a recent article by Trevor Cooling and Bob Bowie in which they claim that Christian Theology (alongside 24 other ‘worldviews’ listed by CoRE) can become a conversation partner with a ‘worldviews’...

Public statement

25 Oct 2022

The publication of our report ‘Religion and Worldviews (Weltanschauung)’ provoked a great deal of debate, including, from some quarters, demands that it should be withdrawn. We are issuing this public statement in response to these demands. Read the...

Background to the Religion and Worldviews debate

3 Oct 2022

Many of you will have read our report on the “Religion and Worldviews” debate. It has certainly sparked a great deal of discussion since we published it in June this year. As the dominant view in our sector continues to be challenged by those who would...