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Ireland an ‘outlier’ in requiring religious certs to teach in most primary schools
Only countries such as Saudi Arabia *, Iran and Pakistan share the requirement of Irish primary schools for teachers to have ...
National Secular Society12d
Ireland: Teachers want schools to be more secular, survey says
Teachers in the Republic of Ireland want a more secular approach to education, a survey of the country's largest teachers' ...
Pew Research Center11h
5. Religious importance and religious affiliation
By some measures, the world’s most religious countries are mostly in the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan ...
Independent.ie13d
Teachers’ union calls for divestment of schools from religious patronage to be accelerated
Ireland’s largest teaching union has called on the Department of Education to accelerate the process of divesting schools ...
TheJournal.ie on MSN13d
Large majority of primary teachers say it shouldn't be on schools to prepare children for sacraments
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The New York Times6d
Religion in Schools
The court has been especially active in cases involving religious education. It said if the government was helping private schools, it couldn’t exclude religious ones. It exempted religious ...
Independent.ie13d
Teachers’ union calls for divestment of schools from religious patronage to be accelerated
Ireland’s largest teaching union has called on the Department of Education to accelerate the process of divesting schools from religious patronage. The Irish National Teachers’ ­Organisation ...