A campaign for secular education
Minister for Education to review ETB schools paying Catholic Church to train students to evangelise
The Minister for Education has told Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger that he will review the practice of ETB schools paying the Roman Catholic Church to train students in faith leadership. Last month Atheist Ireland revealed details of these controversial courses, that train some students to evangelise others, through our freedom ...
Last week the Minister for Education, Richard Bruton, told Ruth Coppinger TD that the Relationship and Sexuality Education policy of schools should reflect the core values and ethos of the school as outlined in the school’s mission statement. This goes against a United Nations recommendation, last year, that Ireland should integrate ...
After a successful crowdfunding campaign, Atheist Ireland has been able to meet the high Freedom of Information fees being charged by the ETB Sector, in order to access public documents (much of which should already have been published by the ETBs on their websites). The more ETBs that we look ...
Atheist Ireland has recently completed a crowd funding campaign, which has allowed for access to public documents within the ETB Sector, despite the very high fees that have been charged (including for documents that should already be published on the websites of the ETBs). We believe that our campaign in ...
Based on new documents obtained under Freedom of Information Act, and on our meeting with the Department of Education last month, Atheist Ireland is optimistic that the Minister for Education will soon issue a Circular Letter about the timetabling of religion in ETB schools, that we requested the Minister to ...
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