Category Archives: Official data

Chaplaincy to the Armed Forces

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is spending £22 million annually on employing 280 Christian chaplains across the three armed services, according to the MoD’s reply to a request under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act made by the National Secular … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Religion in public debate | Tagged armed forces, chaplaincy, Freedom of Information Act, Ministry of Defence, National Secular Society, public expenditure | Leave a comment

UK Defence Statistics, 2011

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Clive D. Field

UK Defence Statistics, 2011, published online by the Ministry of Defence on 28 September 2011, shows that, compared with the Integrated Household Survey (IHS) for 2010-11, our armed forces remain nominally more religious than the rest of the population (doubtless, … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data | Tagged Army, civilian personnel, Ministry of Defence, Religious Affiliation, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy | 1 Comment

Farewell to the Citizenship Survey

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Clive D. Field

Headline findings from the 2010-11 Citizenship Survey for England and Wales were published by the Department for Communities and Local Government on 22 September 2011 in the form of Cohesion Research Statistical Release No. 16, comprising a textual report and … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Religion and Politics, Religion and Social Capital, Survey news | Tagged Belonging, Britishness, Citizenship Survey, Civic Engagement, cohesion, decisions, Department for Communities and Local Government, Home Office, Ipsos-MORI, neighbourhod, places of worship, religious harassment, religious prejudice, social mixing, TNS-BMRB, violence, volunteering | 1 Comment

Scottish Social Attitudes Discrimination Module

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Clive D. Field

The level of religious prejudice in Scotland in 2010 was much the same as in 2006, notwithstanding significant legislative and other activities to counter it by both the UK and Scottish Governments during the intervening years. Moreover, Scottish attitudes to … Continue reading →

Posted in Attitudes towards Religion, Official data, Survey news | Tagged acquaintances, banks, Christians, crucifixes, discrimination, employment, Equality and Human Rights Commission (Scotland), headscarves, Hindus, identity, Islamophobia, Jews, John Curtice, marriage, Muslims, primary school teachers, Rachel Ormston, relationships, religious dress, religious prejudice, ScotCen, Scotland, Scottish Centre for Social Research, Scottish Government, Scottish Social Attitudes Survey, Sikhs, Susan McConville, Susan Reid, turbans, veils | Leave a comment

English Baccalaureate and Faith Schools

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Clive D. Field

A Government press release on 31 August trumpeted that its controversial introduction of the English Baccalaureate (or eBacc) has had an immediate impact on reversing the historic decline in pupils taking ‘traditional’ or more ‘academic’ GCSE subjects. And nowhere does … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Religion in public debate, Survey news | Tagged Department for Education, EBacc, English Baccalaureate, Faith schools, GCSEs, General Certificate of Secondary Education, NatCen, National Centre for Social Research, religious education, religious studies, Sam Clemens | Leave a comment

Taking Part, 2010-11

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Clive D. Field

My colleague Siobhan McAndrew introduced BRIN users to the Taking Part surveys in her post on 12 April 2010. See: http://www.brin.ac.uk/news/?p=172 These studies have been running continuously in England since 2005, with fieldwork by TNS-BMRB on behalf of the Department … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Survey news | Tagged culture, Department for Culture Media and Sport, heritage, leisure, Religious Affiliation, Religious Practice, sport, Taking Part, TNS-BMRB | Leave a comment

Religious Studies GCSEs, 2011

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Clive D. Field

There was a 17.6% increase in the number of candidates sitting the full course GCSE in Religious Studies (RS) in June 2011, compared with the summer before, according to results released today by the Joint Council for Qualifications, and covering … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data | Tagged GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education, Joint Council for Qualifications, public examinations, qualifications, religious studies | Leave a comment

Religious Studies A Levels, 2011

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Clive D. Field

There were 4.9% more UK candidates sitting A Level Religious Studies (RS) in June 2011 than in 2010, but the proportion of them getting A* and A grades was 2.1% down, according to data released today (18 August) by the … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data | Tagged A Levels, AS Levels, Joint Council for Qualifications, public examinations, qualifications, religious studies | 2 Comments

National Student Survey

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Clive D. Field

There is a very wide variation in the satisfaction of full-time final-year undergraduate students with the quality of the teaching of first degrees in theology and religious studies at UK universities. This is according to results from the National Student … Continue reading →

Posted in Official data, Survey news | Tagged higher education, Ipsos-MORI, National Student Survey, Research Assessment Exercise, student satisfaction | Leave a comment

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Category Archives: Official data

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