Roisin Marshall, chief executive of the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE). But, he remarked: The ecumenical movement in the Church in my experience has stalled. In Derry, where he lived, none of the citys Protestants would feel able to send their children across the River Foyle and the confessional divide so that they could attend an RC school, regardless of improved results. Ben Lowry: Protestant population has fallen in Northern Ireland in part because they were early to secularism The News Letter By Ben Lowry The bid by Sion Mills Primary and a primary school near Omagh to change their status was the lead story on the BBC Northern Irelandwebsite for a while. On Monday, prior to joining U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron on a visit to the Enniskillen Integrated Primary School in Northern Ireland during the first day of the two-day G-8 summit, Obama addressed more than 1,000 Catholic and Protestant students in Belfast, in which his speech about democracy turned into a controversial battle over his . Most schools are grant-aided. She also said the TRC could see in this bill "the hand of those wanting to remove the option of a faith-based school ethos from parents who want their children to be educated within such an ethos". For A levels last year, only one non-RC school featured in the top ten highest-performing schools. A CRC report noted that the patterns of underachievement were not new, unchanged or getting worse.. It will eventually produce a report to the assembly which may recommend amendments. Besides recruiting chaplains from each denomination, the school also holds regular RC and non-RC eucharists. School name City/ Town County Sector Type DENI. When you consider that the religious mix of the 140,000 plus pupils encompasses Protestant, Catholic, 'other religion' and those of no faith, then the controlled schools' sector is the largest. There are Protestant schools, Protestant churches and Protestant charities dotted around the country. Over the past decade, however, almost all the progress had come by transferring existing schools into the integrated sector. Ms Armstrong's private member's bill would lead to the promotion, reform and the expansion of integrated education. Church Times 2022. Padraig OTuama, a theologian and poet, recalls a classroom discussion in a Catholic school in Belfast. However, Education Minister John O'Dowd told The Detail that he has no power to direct anyone as to which school they should attend and he added that funding is available for schools to ensure pupils can take part in "meaningful engagement with those perceived to be different". Although Ms Marshall and others in the integrated movement say that theirs is an invitational and altruistic sector, they can sometimes be perceived as critical. Mr Doyle warned: Its not a Get-out-of-jail-free card: if youre not a sustainable school, youre not a sustainable school, irrespective of the type of ethos you are offering.. In fact, he said, the Christian ethos was much more significant at St Bedes than at many other Anglican schools, because all their children came from practising Christian families. Seven in 10 support integrated education. Kathryn Torney is a senior journalist at The Detail, an investigative news website in Belfast. I think we have been quite good at getting the message out there, and have seen a surge in parental demand for integrated education.. Some critics, including Mr Doyle, said that it would be better, perhaps, if schools were permitted to integrate by themselves organically, driven by changing demography and parental choice rather than being pushed to change from the top. THE Churches are also keen to push alternatives to NICIEs vision of formally integrated schools. A religious breakdown for each school in the 2011/12 school year is available in an interactive map. IT IS this attitude which can prove difficult for some churchpeople involved in education in Northern Ireland. In Northern Ireland, both sports and schools have been segregated for years: Catholic kids go to Catholic schools, Protestant children go to predominantly Protestant schools.. If half of all parents with children in attendance vote, and of those half say yes, the education minister has the final say, depending on whether the school in its new form will attract enough pupils to remain viable. On several occasions, the Churches had got close to starting a joint church school, but, at the last minute, the project had been postponed. July 01 1999 12:11 AM. Seaview Primary in Glenarm, a coastal village where the accents are a constant reminder of the nearness of Scotland, will become the provinces first to leave the Catholic education system run independently from the state and overseen by Catholic bishops. Schools cannot fix that alone; but it will surely be harder to tackle while children live and learn apart. 2022 BBC. On the other side were the Nationalists, or Republicans - the Catholics. Statistical information on integrated education can be found in the link below. Thanks to their catchment areas, some had as many as 90 per cent Protestant pupils. By Robbie Meredith BBC News NI Education Correspondent Only 143 out of about 1,000 schools in Northern Ireland have at least 10% of pupils from a Protestant background and 10% from a. All this adds new significance to the question of who should educate Northern Irish children, and alongside whom. More on this story can be found at The Detail. "This is in many ways a very radical piece of legislation and in very many ways it's also a very narrow piece of legislation," he said. The last census, in 2011, showed that the Protestant population had declined to 48 . Check out using a credit card or bank account with. Read about our approach to external linking. These would be single schools with children from both denominations present, but, instead of being run as state-controlled institutions, as most integrated schools are, they would be governed directly by a trustee body formed of representatives from the Churches. The school's principal Helen Cole said: "We are a historically naturally integrated school because we serve the whole community of Ballykelly and surrounding areas. Northern Ireland has one of the highest rate of child poverty, lowest rates of living standards and widest gap in income in the UK. Ballykelly Primary School had one of the most balanced Catholic/Protestant enrolments of any school in Northern Ireland for the 2011/12 academic year. Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review Meanwhile the opening of a handful of Irish-language schools has made them more confident that the tide is turning in their direction, and unionists more defensive still. The Battle of Bogside (1969). 2016 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. That is according to Dr Anita Gracie from the body that represents the three main Protestant churches in education. Research last year found working class Protestant boys still struggled the most with education. During the Troubles, great conflict, violence, and riots infiltrated Ireland. Although parents tell polling organisations that they like integrated schooling, apart from a few outstanding options, such as Lagan College, many integrated schools are undersubscribed, Professor Gallagher said. St Columbs in Derry, for example, counts two Nobel laureates among its old boys. Northern Ireland's first shared education campus for Catholic and Protestant schoolchildren has been granted planning approval. The integrated-education movement was a response to the sectarian violence of the Troubles during the 1970s. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. About 90% go to schools where one religious tradition dominates both intake and atmosphere. Integrated schools are indeed important in bringing multiculturalism into the society, yet the role played by mainstream sectors should also be acknowledged. This meant that, in effect, state schools, although open to everyone, without religious qualification, and technically non-denominational, remained de facto Protestant institutions, as the majority of RC families chose to send their children to their Churchs network of schools. Protestants account for 48% of the population while Catholics account for 45%. However, 35% of the pupils attending St Columbanus' College in Bangor in County Down last year were Protestant. Photograph: Paul Faith/PA Archive/Press Association Ima, We have switched off comments on this old version of the site. Your browser does not support the element. Similar schools exist in Scotland and England, and the DofE in Northern Ireland has published proposals to create the legal framework for them to be set up, although none currently exist. Joint church schools would be explicitly Christian, he said, although the denominations had yet to work out the semiotics and the symbolism. The data on religious background - a stark contrast to the state's foundation in 1921, when Britain cleaved six counties from the rest of Ireland to create an entity with a two-thirds. option. He had done his own research with parents in Omagh, which showed that parents wanted a guarantee that their child will get a good-quality education and [they are] reasonably flexible about how that will be provided. THERE are several schools in England which are mixed Protestant and Roman Catholic. However, the majority of the Northern Irish have forefathers who emigrated from England and Scotland and these two countries have been Protestant for almost 500 years. The calculated data can be found in the last two tabs in the downloadable spreadsheet. It can even involve the two schools sharing a single campus site, as has occurred in Dalkeith, in Scotland. THE situation is not completely straightforward, however. Similar data was also requested for the 1997/98 school year to examine what has changed if anything in relation to pupil integration since the year the Good Friday Agreement was signed. Purchase this issue for $14.00 USD. But it will not become the norm any time soon. One RC school in Bangor was also 50-50, he reported. However Dr Andrew Brown, representing the Presbyterian Church, said the bill was "presumptive and pre-emptive" as it came before an independent review of Northern Ireland's education system had concluded. The chief executive of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS) Gerry Campbell also said it was "concerned the draft bill does not appear to recognise the contribution and the diversity of the Catholic maintained sector and its schools". What is the difference between Catholic and Protestant Irish? The most substantial Protestant denomination in Northern Ireland, the Presbyterians, makes up more than one-fifth of the population. That is according to analysis of Department of Education school census figures carried out by the Council for Integrated Education (NICIE). Data for 1997/98 can be found in the spreadsheet. Parents who, in theory, agreed that Northern Ireland would be better if Protestants and Catholics were educated together, tended to send their own children to non-integrated institutions. There were also tensions: the Roman Catholic hierarchy saw schools as a place to pass on the faith. Two small Catholic schools recently failed that test. 5% of pupils are other Christian. Integrated education has been so successful because it has been carried out, in the main, by parents, and therefore it has been sustainable.. Due to this relatively new occurrence such schools as Alexandra 17 The secretary to the Church of Irelands Board of Education for Northern Ireland, Dr Peter Hamill, said that his Church also worked closely with the integrated sector. 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The Roman Catholic Church is the single largest church in the country although there are more Protestants overall. THE political vacuum created by the stalemate in talks to restore a functioning executive at Stormont have been blamed as contributory factors in the riots which took place in Derry during the Twelfth week (an Ulster Protestant celebration held on 12 July), two diocesan bishops have said. They would think: What on earth would you want to do that for? They like the fact that it is a Christian school [but] nobody goes around with a badge saying Im a Baptist or Im an Anglican. Published quarterly by the Irish Jesuits, Studies examines Irish social, political, cultural and economic issues in the light of Christian values and explores the Irish dimension in literature, history, philosophy and religion. We want that to be a possibility here. What can you do with this data? NICIEs mission never has been to get rid of religion out of schools or education, but very much the opposite: to embrace everyones religion. The figures detail pupils' religious background in each school in Northern Ireland in the 2020-21 academic year. Meanwhile, Butmost schools that have become integrated in NI were so-called Protestant schools. In the 20 years since the Holy Cross dispute, the social fabric of Northern Ireland has changed drastically, with a growing section of society abandoning the traditional markers of British or. Download this data, Source: NI school censusNote:1. I like the term multi-denominational there has to be room for everyone. Integration was not about ignoring the differences between Protestants and Roman Catholics, and subsuming them into some mushy secularism, but, instead, saying that these differences should not prevent children from being educated together. Despite its inauspicious beginnings, Lagan College was a trailblazer for a movement to intentionally educate Roman Catholic and Protestant children together in Northern Ireland. Its a shame, but then Im typically Anglican, and I think we ought to be working together. In Northern Ireland, the school categories are grant-aided and Independent. Church-controlled primary schools are embedded in communities across the Republic and have a long-standing tradition of inclusivity, of welcoming pupils from differing faith traditions, many from. The DE now has a legal duty to facilitate shared education alongside its continuing responsibility to encourage integration. In Northern Ireland in general and the Triangle area in particular Protestant schools were much more likely to have Parents' or Parent-teacher associations. Northern Irelands schools themselves do not foment sectarian prejudice. The seriousness of the religious divide was brought to the fore by First Minister and DUP leader Peter Robinson in October 2010 when he described the Northern Ireland education system as a "benign form of apartheid which is fundamentally damaging to our society". That meant creating one in the Irish Sea, dividing the province from the mainland, and ratcheting up tensions in politics and on the street. ), Bishop of Oxford calls for an end to ban on same-sex marriage in Church of England, Conservatives in Oxford reject their Bishops same-sex endorsement, Same-sex marriage: Bishops of Worcester and Dudley next to go public, Church of England bishopsedge closer to adecision on sexuality, We will conduct same-sex marriages say more than 1000 clergy, No licence forReader in same-sex marriage. It also produces some of the best exam results in Northern Ireland. References Abbey Christian Brothers Grammar School: Newry: County Down: Voluntary: Grammar: 542-0059 Abbey Community College: Newtownabbey: A total of 267 pupils attended the school - 43% were Protestant, 48% Catholic and 9% 'other'. We have a clear belief system and are unapologetically a faith school. The effects of the Troubles are still seen today . For decades, bishops and others had been inviting Protestant families to send their children to RC schools, but it had hardly happened. Historically, RC schools dominate league tables in Northern Ireland. Some of the Catholic schools seeking to switch are deciding between integration and closure; large, flourishing institutions are unlikely to follow their example. They were mostly of British descent and wanted Northern Ireland to remain part of Britain. Overall, the figures show that about eight per cent of children in the state-controlled sector are Roman Catholic, although just one per cent of pupils at RC-maintained schools were Protestant. (Advocates say they teach about both communities traditions and histories, not neither.). In the 1960s, more than 97 per cent of Northern Ireland's students attended segregated schools (even today this figure . Dr Hamill said that, although this initiative had slowed because of a lack of funding in recent years, it was still a success. Even those in mixed classrooms go home to places where one camp controls the streets and supposedly defunct paramilitary forces still hold great sway. The attraction of Protestant Schools At a time when Ireland is undergoing profound changes particularly in the field of morals, the Protestant ethos seems to appeal to more and more Catholics, judging from the success of the Protestant schools a600g non Protestants. On one side of the equation were the Unionists, also known as Loyalists - the Protestants. Integrated schooling was introduced in Northern Ireland in the 1980s as a way to help break down the religious divide. To reduce agricultures carbon footprint, rewetting may be needed, If it spreads to the NHS, things could get very bad, Published since September 1843 to take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.. Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off. Non-subscribers canreadfour articles for free each month. Technical issues, such as the prospect of the first-ever Catholic maintained schools becoming integrated, or the first jointly managed church school, had become bogged down or put on hold. The school's principal Liam Perry said: "We have children who are Catholic, Protestant, of other faiths and none who attend our college. Because of the difficulties in Northern Ireland, the two sides said: Well, wouldnt it great to be a beacon and join together? Mr Crabtree said. Census figures detailing the religious makeup of Northern Ireland were published by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency Sept. 22. As politicians in both Northern Ireland and Westminster argue about the minutiae of customs and standards, they have lost focus on the bigger issue. Northern Ireland has more Catholics than Protestants for first time By Amanda Ferguson and Padraic Halpin Crowds cheer as King Charles III and the Queen Consort arrive for a visit to. You dont need to go around with a big branding iron and go, thump, thats an integrated school. Schools such as Kilkenny College and Monaghan Collegiate remain more than 90 per cent Protestant. Most of the Department of Education's 2.2 billion budget is spent servicing two parallel school systems which thus maintain the separation of Protestant and . reference number. A couple of well-known ones are religiously and racially diverse; many share classes in some subjects with nearby schools that have mainly Protestant intakes. Supporters of RC education fear that more formal integration would dilute the strong brand which their sector had established over many decades. They would not try, Dr Hamill said, to replace integrated or existing schools, but serve as another option in the ever-expanding menu of school types in Northern Ireland. Six schools in the past 12 months had held a ballot of parents on becoming a mixed Protestant-Catholic establishment. In a mixed system, all we are seeking is a place at the table, says Donal McKeown, the Derry-based bishop who chairs the Catholic educational authority. Northern Ireland now has borders with Britain and Ireland and it is no longer a majority-Protestant state. Mr Doyle was critical of what he described as empire-building by NICIE and the integrated-education movement. Mr Doyle and Bishop McKeown said that this was not out of any belief in mixed education but a tactic for survival. NICIE says that it does not believe that integrated schools are automatically better than their non-integrated counterparts; but the bad feeling remains. Historically, RC schools were also some of the few places in Northern Ireland where Irishness was allowed to flourish, in an era when the country was ruled by a Unionist government, and Nationalism was treated as suspect. Some Protestants grumble that our schoolsthose run by the state, where pictures of the Queen used to adorn walls and the British national anthem was sunghave adapted to Catholic sensibilities, even as Catholic schools remain devotional and therefore unwelcoming to them. Read your article online and download the PDF from your email or your account. In his own town, the four secondary schools all took part, allowing pupils to attend other campuses for particular subjects that the other schools may be better at teaching. In many ways, the young people are going past the divisions; they dont have the same problems as maybe their parents do, he said. Since most neighbourhoods are segregated, children may rarely meet anyone from outside their own religious community. About 93% of the Northern Irish population identifies as Christian, 1% is non-Christian and 6% is not religious. And the integrated sector that it gave birth to almost 40 years ago has gone through a similar transformation: there are now 65 integrated schools in the country, meaning that one child in every 14 now attends a school that is not seen as Roman Catholic or Protestant but both. In Belfast and other towns, protestants and Catholics often led separate lives, living in different . Up to six schools with 3,700 pupils are expected to be based at a . Some low figures were suppressed by the department to avoid identifying individual pupils of a minority religion in schools so we asked the department to carry out some overall calculations on our behalf with the raw, unsuppressed data. The curriculum must make some provision for all nine areas. Dr Hamill said that this reflected his own experience: Parents are more and more looking just for good schools. They were not so worried about which sector. The children are wondering what all the fuss is about, whereas some of the adults are getting excited about all of this.. This is a list of secondary schools in Northern Ireland, according to the Department of Education (Northern Ireland). As well as the legal duty on the DofE to encourage the growth of the sector, polls consistently suggest that many people in Northern Ireland want their children to experience mixed education. These schools invite Protestant and Catholic to come together with other traditions to improve their understanding of one another, their own cultures, religions and values. But Dr Gracie from the Methodist Church, who also gave evidence on behalf of the TRC, told assembly members that did not mean non-integrated schools were not diverse and inclusive. . THE Bishop of Derry & Raphoe, the Rt Revd Ken Good, told the General Synod that a crisis in the education system in Northern Ireland is failing young people because of the absence of political leadership, Ms Marshall also reported that the NICIE had excellent relations with the various Churches in Northern Ireland, something echoed by the RC Bishop of Derry, the Most Revd Dnal McKeown, a former teacher who leads the Churchs education work. One of the big news stories in Northern Ireland this week was that the Census 2021 figures reveal that, for the first time since the partition of Ireland just over 100 years ago, the percentage of 'Catholics' in Northern Ireland is greater than that of 'Protestants'. The boarders at Dundalk Grammar School are almost all Protestant, while the day pupils are. Whilst grammar schools cannot be wholly blamed for this situation, they do not appear to be helping. The 'Others' category includes other Christian, Non Christian and No religion/religion unknown. That happy confidence has been erased. 1998 Messenger Publications Police Service of Northern Ireland officers look at a burnt car in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast in 2002, after Catholic and Protestant rioters clashed with police overnight. It would increase the number of integrated school places and set targets for the number of children being educated in integrated schools. 66% of pupils are Protestant. For a few years, the college struggled along on donations and good will. The threat of closure has also brought politics into the mix. Maybe education is ahead of the game. There are nine areas of learning in Key Stage 3: language and literacy; mathematics and numeracy; modern languages; the arts; environment and society; science and technology; learning for life and work; physical education; and religious education. Copyright The Economist Newspaper Limited 2022. Request Permissions, Read Online (Free) relies on page scans, which are not currently available to screen readers. Sinn Fein, the largest party seeking a united Ireland, endorsed it half-heartedly, saying that integrated schools did too little to promote the Irish language, or Gaelic music and sports. Ballykelly Primary School had one of the most balanced Catholic/Protestant enrolments of any school in Northern Ireland for the 2011/12 academic year. Tim Wyatt asks how it has worked, A picture of a Catholic student with a Protestant student at Lagan Community College, Belfast, in the days when the interdenominational school buildings were prefabs. This list may not reflect recent changes. We certainly dont see it as a conflict.. The 8 point drop in "British" identity is the real whopper - it was expected to see a 1-2 point drop, so that really is surprising. Regardless of how much effort is put into fostering good relations with the other, if children are educated separately from the age of four they will grow up believing that that is normal, she said. It is an integrated school, its just not with a capital I. The subtext is: if children are sent to an RC or controlled school rather than an integrated one, they will be turned into sectarian monsters, Professor Gallagher noted. To complicate things further, there are controlled schools that are more mixed than their counterparts in the integrated sector. 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