Education – Postcards

Murf

Postcards from my mind, written for my reader, she knows who she is.

POD no longer compulsory

April 9, 2016 No Comments

Good news: As longstanding, longsuffering readers will be aware, for the past year and a bit, I have been arguing that the Primary Online Database (POD) was illegal. Though that argument has not come to a conclusion (and I expect it to be successful) the Department of Education has been forced into a series of […]

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Education Equality Government

Progress: Rule on priority of primary-level religion classes to go

December 9, 2015December 9, 2015 No Comments

Minister for Education Jan O’Sullivan is to remove a 50-year old official rule which gives religion classes a privileged status, paving the way for a potential reduction in time spent on faith formation. At present, 30 minutes of each primary school day is allocated to religious education – twice the amount of time devoted to […]

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POD no longer compulsory

Progress: Rule on priority of primary-level religion classes to go