Is Religious Education on its way out?

New report suggests replacing RE classes with ‘Religion and Worldviews’

UK School
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Religious Education (RE) classes should be replaced with a course named Religion and Worldviews in order to incorporate beliefs including humanism, secularism, atheism and agnosticism, according to experts.

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