{"id":13889,"date":"2014-11-25T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/11\/25\/pupils-will-study-two-religions-in-new-uk-program\/"},"modified":"2014-11-25T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T12:00:00","slug":"pupils-will-study-two-religions-in-new-uk-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2014\/11\/25\/pupils-will-study-two-religions-in-new-uk-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Pupils Will Study Two Religions in New UK Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/education-29950854\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ENGLAND, November 19, 2014 (BBC): Pupils in England will have to study two faiths under government proposals for a new &#8220;more academically rigorous&#8221; religious studies GCSE. The aim is to ensure pupils have a strong understanding of the central role of religion on British culture, says the government. The Department for Education says it has worked closely with experts from &#8220;all the major faith groups&#8221; to develop the qualification which is due for first teaching in September 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposals, pupils will study &#8220;the beliefs, teachings and sources of wisdom&#8221; of at least two religions for the first half of their GCSE. The second half of the syllabus will allow pupils to study one or both in depth: looking at religious practice, religious texts and how faiths tackle philosophical and ethical issues.<\/p>\n<p>Students may choose from Buddhism, Christianity, Catholic Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism and Sikhism. The option to study a humanist or non-religious world view is not included in this list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source ENGLAND, November 19, 2014 (BBC): Pupils in England will have to study two faiths under government proposals for a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}