Northern Ireland’s school system remains starkly segregated by religion.
Evidence
It is estimated that around 94% of primary and post-primary pupils from the main Catholic and Protestant communities are educated in schools that are predominantly ‘own’ religion. Dating back to the late 1970s, and until recently, the only schools-based means of promoting contact has been via integrated schools (of which there are today 62, across primary and secondary sectors, accounting for around 5% of overall provision). — Miles Hewstone and Joanne Hughes, Reconciliation in Northern Ireland, 19
Categorization
- SHARE: A striking stat — 94% own-religion schooling with only ~5% integrated provision — worth sharing with anyone studying segregation or contact.
- XREF: connects to: Northern Ireland’s conflict is ethnopolitical, not religious, in nature — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 534
Related
- Northern Ireland’s conflict is ethnopolitical, not religious, in nature (similarity 0.86)
- Student-body mixing drives cross-group attitudes, not school type (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Northern Ireland’s conflict is ethnopolitical, not religious, in nature
#qualifies(0.85) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 534