Education Act 1998 Archives | Teach Dont Preach

July 19, 2018 No Comments Teach Dont Preach

The three types of religious education in Irish schools

There is a lot of confusion among parents and students in relation to the different types of religious education and religious instruction classes in Irish school at primary and second level. Here is a quick guide which we hope will give a better understanding of the basic principles in relation ...

September 1, 2017 No Comments Teach Dont Preach

Does Tipperary Education and Training Board have a Christian ethos?

In a recent case, the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) found in favour of Tipperary Education and Training Board (ETB), in a case taken by a computer science and maths teacher. The teacher had claimed that he was discriminated against on the ground of religion in the Central Technical Institute in ...

May 14, 2017 4 Comments ADMlN

Support the Equal Participation in Schools Bill 2016

The Equal Participation in Schools Bill 2016 will be debated in the Dail next Tuesday night between 8pm and 10pm. If passed this Bill would ensure that all children and their parents have access to an education system with equal respect and dignity and where their human rights are guaranteed. ...

May 1, 2017 No Comments ADMlN

Catholic schools ignore law and policy

Publicly funded schools with a Catholic ethos ignore legislation and policy and successive Ministers for Education have done nothing about it. The Irish State refuses to challenge the Catholic Church even when it means they are clearly ignoring this policy and legislation. In Ireland one of the key issues in ...

February 15, 2017 No Comments ADMlN

NCCA report confirms that ERB and Ethics course will not meet human rights standards

The National Council of Curriculum and Assessment has published its long-awaited report regarding the proposed course on Education about Religions, Beliefs and Ethics. The Report vindicates the analysis of Atheist Ireland that any new course on ERB and ethics cannot be implemented in accordance with the Constitution and Human Rights ...

November 29, 2016 No Comments ADMlN

ERB and Ethics: do we now need to opt our children out of this new subject?

The introduction of a new course in Primary Schools about Religions, Beliefs and Ethics has the potential to undermine further the Constitutional and Human Rights of minorities. The legal framework is not in place that would ensure that the course is delivered in accordance with human rights so that the ...

October 13, 2016 No Comments ADMlN

Irish children denied right to sexual and reproductive health education

In Ireland Children and Adolescents are denied their right to sexual and reproductive health education. You can do something about this by supporting the Recommendation of the Irish Human Rights & Equality Commission on the Education (Admissions) to Schools Bill. This Bill will be coming up in the Oireachtas again ...

July 6, 2016 No Comments ADMlN

New government to continue to undermine the opt out from religion in schools

The Minister for Education & Skills Richard Bruton today said that the government has approved a new Education (Admissions to schools) Bill. This new government will not be removing religious discrimination in access to schools, but access is not even the main problem. There is no point in getting access ...

December 26, 2015 No Comments ADMlN

Constitutional Review Group concluded separate secular and religious instruction is not unreasonable or unfair

Atheist Ireland has consistently argued in our lobbying for secular education that religion should not be integrated throughout the primary school curriculum. The Government claims that it is constitutionally obliged to buttress discrimination arising from the tenets of specific religions. But as long as twenty years ago, the Constitution Review ...

November 10, 2014 3 Comments ADMlN

State fails to explain religious discrimination in schools that the State runs directly

Irish State fails to explain religious discrimination in schools it runs directly The Department of Education has failed to explain why there is religious discrimination in access to even the few primary schools that the State runs directly, never mind in the schools where it cedes control to religious patrons. ...