Challenges and Opportunities in Religious Education: Re-Considering Practitioners’ Approaches in Scottish Secondary Schools

Where grief education goes to die? A response to making learning about grief, death, and loss mandatory in Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence

“…The provision of RME is an excellent case study of the challenges that befall a vital aspect of learning despite legal prescription. In short, a combination of legal statutes and government guidance means that all state-funded non-denominational schools should offer RME to all learners (even those in the later stages of secondary, where qualifications are the usual priority (Scholes, 2020). As I have shown elsewhere, there is a considerable lack of provision in RME, questions over the quality of existing provisions and significant inconsistencies in official oversight from HM Inspectors of Education concerning the legislative demands (Scholes, 2022).…”

Using Scottish School inspection documentation as a primary source for research dissertations

“…Denominational schools are usually Roman Catholic in Scotland, but there are three Episcopalian primary schools and one Jewish. Non-denominational schools do not have an explicit religious affiliation (Scholes, 2020). Researchers will also note that the term 'inter-denominational' is used for a small number of special schools in Glasgow (Scottish Government 2022b).…”