Tag: integrated education

• Neglected state schools and far-right rhetoric: Macron’s legacy will be defined by his vanity politics

  

  OPINION The quality of state schools in France has become so poor that working-class parents are turning to bursaries at Catholic private schools for their children’s education. As the government passes its ‘Islamist separatism’ law, these parents from France’s quartiers are battling a festering yet seemingly unacknowledged form of socio-economic segregation that threatens their children’s educational […]

  Olivia Dean

  22nd Mar 2021

  France

  education, Emmanuel Macron, equality, extremism, far right, Front National, ghettoisation, inequality, integrated education, Islamophobia, Macron, Marine Le Pen, Rassemblement National, social justice, working class

• Why integrated education should be non-negotiable in Northern Ireland

  

  OPINION How to bring together a community divided by civil war is a long, arduous and difficult process with no clear blueprint or one-size-fits-all remedy. However, there are certain policies a government can take that would be conducive to reconciling one section of its society with another. One such measure that seems blindingly obvious to me […]

  Anna Gray

  1st Mar 2021

  Ireland, UK

  Catholic Church, Catholicism, education, integrated education, Northern Ireland, Protestantism, segregation, The Troubles