Following our recent crowdfunded campaign of FOI requests, Atheist Ireland has discovered that ETB schools and colleges are not only integrating Catholic sex education into Relationship and Sexuality Education, but they are paying the Catholic group Accord to deliver this teaching. ETBs are Education and Training Boards. They are state ...
Thanks to the generosity of the donors to our crowdfunding campaign, Atheist Ireland has been continuing to analyse the results of some FoI requests towards the ETB sector. ETBs are Education and Training Boards. They are state bodies that directly run schools, in contrast to schools that have a religious ...
Atheist Ireland has been reviewing hundreds of documents from ETBs around the country, as a result of our recent Freedom of Information requests. In many cases, we have found that ETB schools can be every bit as Catholic as those under the direct patronage of the Catholic Church. Aside from ...
In a series of emails that the Department of Education tried to hide from Atheist Ireland, the head of Education and Training Boards Ireland recently revealed that he didn’t know whether an important Department policy about religion was in force in ETB schools. He also admitted that the current situation ...
Cavan Monaghan ETB schools, despite having no religious patron and no official partnership with the Catholic Church, do not teach religion in a neutral and objective manner. These schools are presented as the alternative to Catholic schools in Ireland. And yet they tell parents that they do teach religion in a ...
Dublin and Dun Laoghaire ETB community colleges, despite having no religious patron and no official partnership with the Catholic Church, make religious education mandatory. These schools are presented as the alternative to Catholic schools in Ireland. This article illustrates the extent of this problem, and includes links to other documents about ...
Education & Training Boards schools and colleges are presented as the alternative to denominational schools in Ireland. The ETB sector is in competition with Educate Together for the patronage of new second level schools. But Atheist Ireland has discovered that many ETB schools have a Christian and Catholic ethos and ...
Please donate now to the crowdfunding appeal at this link to help expose the extent of religious ethos in State Schools in Ireland. Atheist Ireland has recently exposed, using Freedom of Information law, that some State-run schools in Ireland have a Catholic ethos, and refuse to let children opt out from ...
Atheist Ireland has written to the Minister for Education seeking an input into the new guidelines that he has committed to issuing for children opting out of religion classes in State-run ETB schools. The Minister was responding to questions by RTE's Emma O'Kelly about documents that Atheist Ireland obtained under ...
The RTE News Education Correspondent, Emma O’Kelly, has described as “extraordinary” the statement by the CEO of Tipperary ETB that its secondary schools have a Catholic ethos. This was revealed in documents obtained by Atheist Ireland under the Freedom of Information Act, which we published here. Legal duty of the ...
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