Ireland
Homeschooling
Associations
& Support
Ireland
Home
Education Network of Ireland
A support and lobby group for anyone already home educating or
interested in it. The site provides an overview of the legal
situation in Ireland, with information on the Registration and
Assessment system. HEN helps to put home educators together and
produces a quarterly newsletter and holds an annual conference
with guest speakers and children's activities.
Northern Ireland
Christian Educators
In Northernireland
We hope that this site will meet the need of networking home
educators in Northern Ireland and enhancing the life of our homeschooling
community through the sharing and storing of useful weblinks,
testimonies, lesson plans, curriculum, day trips, events and
life experience.
Home Education in Northern
Ireland
Information & support for home-educators in Northern Ireland.
Events
HEN Ireland Events
HEN holds an annual gathering Septmber each year.
Legalities
Education (Welfare) Act, 2000, Section 14
The Board shall, on the commencement of this section, cause to be established and maintained a register of all children in receipt of education in a place other than a recognised school (hereafter in this section referred to as "the register").
Legal Guidelines
Article 42 of the Constitution sets out the relationships between
the family, parents, children and the State with respect to education.
From HEN Ireland.
The State versus Home Education in Ireland
Registration of Home educators. Any law that would compel people
to apply for approval by a Government body for inclusion in a
register to allow them to do something that they have a specifically
delineated Constitutional right to do, is, per se, unconstitutional.
News
Case
study: Homeschooling
by Peadar Willy de Bhuinn, June 2001, Ireland
This article has been submitted as a case study on homeschooling
by Peadar Willy de Bhuinn from Ireland. It is intended to provide
an inspiration for parents.
Leitrim
couple win appeal over refusal to send son to school
In Boyle Circuit Court today they claimed a constitutional right
to educate their son at home. RTE News, June 23 1999.
Recent
education-related court cases in Ireland
Source information about the case of Jamie Sinnott and the Best
case.
Online
Home Ed
Northern Ireland
HEdNI is for families in Northern Ireland who are interested
in home-education, or who are currently home-educating. Our numbers
in Northern Ireland are growing.
Resources
Halfmoon Educational Books and Resources
Ireland-based new and used home education curriculum seller with
an emphasis on classical and Christian material. Serving all
of Europe.
Home
Education Network
This website was set up by an ex member of HEN and has some interesting
information and links to other sites. It is not a support group
but is a source of information.
Kilroy's College
An Irish distance learning school which provides courses to students
in Ireland, UK, America, and around the world. We are the main
providers of leaving cert (Ireland's equivalent of finishing
high school) home study in Ireland.
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