More students take religion at A-level

More schoolchildren are both sitting and passing Religious Studies (RS), as the government prepares to exclude it from the new Baccalaureate. This year, 18,463 teenagers chose to take A-level RS – 4.3 per cent up on last year. Nearly a third more pupils now take the subject than in 2005. The pass rate is up too: 80.4 per cent gained a grade A*-C, 2.2 per cent more than 2010. It was expected that GCSE RS results would also show a similar improvement this week. But Premier Christian Media’s Peter Kerridge, a key player in the RE.ACT campaign to include RS in the new Baccalaureate qualification, said: ‘All this good work could be undermined following the exclusion of RS from the English Baccalaureate.’
Source: Christian Today (23/8)

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