A campaign for secular education
Forcing students to learn religious texts raises human rights issues
A recent article in the Irish Times regarding the requirement to study the Koran as part of the Leaving Certificate Arabic exam raises some very interesting questions for the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA). Approximately 200 students take the Leaving Certificate Arabic exam and they must study extracts ...
An article in the Irish Times today reports that there is not enough space in the Primary school Curriculum for the proposed new course on ERB and Ethics (Education about Religions, Beliefs and Ethics). The INTO and various bodies and individuals have raised these concerns. The proposal is that the ...
Last week Atheist Ireland told a meeting of United Nations state delegates in Geneva that Ireland's Constitution is incompatible with our human rights obligations in freedom of religion, blasphemy laws, religious discrimination in schools and religious oaths for politicians and judges. Atheist Ireland attended and spoke at the Pre-Session of ...
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