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In recent years, education in Britain as well as India has been in the news over issues of religious policy. The British debates arose in connection with a minor clause in the Education Act of 2002,80 which in popular discourse appeared to open the gates to novel entities known as ‘faith schools’, one that opponents felt would exacerbate the ongoing fragmentation of British society along religious and racial lines. The faith schools would potentially be organized by non-traditional (read non-Christian) educational agencies, with substantially greater financial support from the state in order to make such enterprises reality. In addition to the nature of management, such schools, actual or proposed, are to be distinguished by their admission policies (the use of faith-based criteria to rank applications for places) and by the nature of faith education they may provide.81
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Chatterjee, N. (2011). Religion and Public Education: The Politics of Secularizing Knowledge. In: The Making of Indian Secularism. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230298088_2
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