Memorandum 51
Submission from the Society of St Thomas
& St Augustine
We, the Society of St Thomas & St Augustine,
are interested in Christian education and training. We understand
that John Denham, Secretary of State, has issued a directive not
to provide funds to enable universities to "subsidise"
students reading for a second "first" degree. We also
understand that Muslims have been assured that the training for
imams will not be affected.
We submit that Christians should be treated
on the same basis as Muslims, as those Christian candidates who
propose to take a second "first" degree intend to work
as Ministers and would be doing pastoral work like the Muslim
Imams. Otherwise those who want to serve the Christian Churches
would be placed under serious financial burden and handicap, which
will be not fair or equitable.
You will thus see that we are not asking you
to place Muslim education under a handicap but that we are pleading
to place Christian education on the same footing as Muslim education.
January 2008
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