Pupils pray more and play less than EU counterparts [Independent.ie]
- Published: 23 September 2009
IRISH primary pupils spend more time praying than their classmates in the rest of Europe, and far less time playing.
Our schools rank top of the European class for the percentage of teaching time officially devoted to religious education, but bottom, with Turkey, for time allocated to physical education.
But there are no plans to reduce the time spent on religion in order to create more space for other subjects where we also do badly, such as foreign languages and science.
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