The new Religious Studies GCSE, 'Religion and Belief in Today’s World', is described by OCR as offering the first approach that requires students to study two or more religions in an interfaith framework.

The syllabus requires candidates to look at issues such as community cohesion and valuing diversity using this approach. The specification is based on the recommendations from the 2007 Ofsted report 'Making Sense of Religion', which emphasised the gap in current RE provision which allows pupils to be able to make sense of religion in the world today, and a realistic approach to controversy to be maintained when looking at the range of complexities and ambiguities of religion.

You can download the specification at: www.ocr.org.uk.