ABSTRACT
The importance for the whole future of religious education of what is happening in this area of teacher education can scarcely be exaggerated. The quality of the specialist teachers of religious knowledge in this segment of the country’s schools will thus in turn help to decide the quality of future teachers of divinity—at all levels of education. Every secondary school and especially every grammar and comprehensive school ought to have at least one specialist teacher to organize, supervise and advise on the work of religious education as a whole. The amount of time available for religious education in a post-graduate education year is limited, as it is for graduates in all subjects, to about one third or one quarter of the total time. Quite as important as the courses for potential specialists, are the subsidiary courses in religious education provided in university departments for graduates whose main academic qualifications lie in some field other than theology.
