This week in the Irish Catholic
Fr Tom Deenihan has concerns about the proposed new ERB programme. He heads the Catholic Primate School Management Association, warned that there had been “some concern” that the proposed new Education about Religion and Beliefs (ERB) and Ethics programme would “compromise the time currently allocated for religious education in Catholic and other denominational schools”. While acknowledging that the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) have stated that the proposed curriculum is not intended to replace the current religious education curriculum, Fr Deenihan warned it was “important that Boards of Managements of Catholic schools and parents who send their children to such schools engage in the consultation process to ensure that ERB does not, in fact, take some of this time due to an already overloaded primary curriculum”.
