News: Education
Meditation at the Leeds Metropolitan University
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Saturday, 26 November 11 - 10:43 AM (GMT) By Chris Ward in Education |
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The Leeds Met is including Buddhist meditation in its Psychology degrees: http://www.lmu.ac.uk/about/leeds-met-students-first-to-master-buddhist-meditation21112011.htm demonstrating the continued spread of Buddhist inspired practices into psychology, psychotherapy and neuroscience. Transpersonal ...
Buddhist Educational Materials
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Wednesday, 01 December 10 - 10:20 AM (GMT) By TG Staff in Education |
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I am posting some recent publicity from Clear Vision Trust providing links to free Buddhist materials for young people. Clear Vision appears to be the only significant UK provider of modern Buddhist educational material for young people and needs our support. FREE Buddhist materials for children ...
Helping Children - The Rahula Trust
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Thursday, 21 January 10 - 09:49 AM (GMT) By Chris Ward in Education |
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There are a lot of charities run by Buddhists. Often they are run on a shoe-string with little publicity. One that I am personally aware of, and that does good work, is the Rahula Trust. From its website the Rahula Trust explains what it does: 'The Rahula Trust--a fully-registered charity in the...
All Faiths and None
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Friday, 09 January 09 - 01:36 PM (GMT) By TG Staff in Education |
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All Faiths and None (AFAN) is aimed at providing resources on religion and belief for colleges. AFAN is composed of a group of people with different worldviews, both religious and non-religious who are exploring some of the big questions in life from their personal viewpoints. The AFAN website pr...
Religious and plant names removed from children's dictionary
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Tuesday, 09 December 08 - 11:28 AM (GMT) By Chris Ward in Education |
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Apparently, Oxford University Press has removed words like "abbey" "aisle", "bishop", "chapel", "empire" "monarch" "monastery" "monk" "nun" and "sin" from its Junior Dictionary along with many word...
Further Education and Community Cohesion
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Tuesday, 12 February 08 - 10:17 AM (GMT) By TG Staff in Education |
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Inner or Outer Social Cohesion?On the 11th February, the government launched a consultation exercise which lasts until 6th May entitled:The Role of Further Education Providers in Promoting Community Cohesion, Fostering Shared Values and Preventing Violent ExtremismFurther details and how to give ...
Faith Schools
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Monday, 28 January 08 - 03:53 PM (GMT) By Chris Ward in Education |
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An interesting debate - The Richard Dimbleby big debate - on faith schools and religious education may be heard here. Dimbleby is joined by Professor Richard Dawkins, Schools Select Committee chairman Barry Sheerman MP, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, Oona Stanard (Catholic Education) and a multi-f...
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