News Archive
News articles and news releases originating from the Educate Together National Office from 2011 and previous years are stored here in chronological order. To stay up to date on all that's happening in our school network, sign up to our newsletter.
Census 2016: Figures Highlight the Need for Structural Change in our Education System
- 06/04/2017 , 9:00
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Educate Together, Ireland's equality-based school provider, notes that the figures released this morning from the 2016 census provide powerful evidence of the rapid trend towards increasing diversity in Ireland. The census figures provide more detail of religious diversity than ever before measured. These figures emphasise, in official statistics...
Educate Together Launches ‘Fair Transparent Equal’ campaign on school transfers
- 13/03/2017 ,
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Educate Together Launches ‘Fair Transparent Equal’ campaign on school transfers Current Government plan is tailored to needs of the Catholic Church Educate Together is today launching a campaign to call on Minister of Education and Skills Richard Bruton TD to reconsider his recently announced ‘reconfiguration’ plans for school transfers. The...
‘State-funded schools should be open to all’
- 09/03/2017 ,
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Educate Together Publishes Its Submission On ‘Baptism Barrier’ Today Educate Together published its submission on Minister Bruton’s public consultation on the ‘baptism barrier’ and called for an end to religious discrimination in state-funded schools. It is Educate Together’s view that all children should be able to apply for enrolment in any...