Editor writes... Reflecting on our forthcoming Education Seminar (23 May), and given that Barbara Coupar, the Director of the Scottish Catholic Education Service (SCES) has ignored my emailed invitation to her to participate in said seminar, I decided to take a look at some of the resources on the SCES website which are used in...
Below, the text of the Pastoral Letter sent from the Archbishop of Glasgow to be read in all parishes tomorrow, Sunday, 3rd March, 2019. Underneath the Pastoral Letter, is the text of the ad clerum - that is his letter to priests - on the same subject. Compare the two - and weep! ARCHDIOCESE OF...
St Maria Goretti, please intercede to protect the innocence of pupils in Scotland's Catholic schools... The following extracts are taken from the website of the Scottish Catholic Education Service, section entitled Equality & Inclusion Learning and Teaching... The Usual Introductory Blurb... Editorial comment injected All schools should have robust policies that seek to ensure the safety and inclusion...
From the Scottish Catholic Observer... MP’s comments on Catholic education ‘very disappointing’ The director of the Scottish Catholic Education Service has described comments made last week by MP Mhairi Black (pictured, left) on Catholic schools are ‘very disappointing.’ Barbara Coupar, SCES director, spoke following a report by the Sunday Herald, which claimed the SNP MP had said...
Recently, January, 2017, we discussed the distinction which has to be made today, between Catholic schools and authentic Catholic education. The two are no longer the same thing. This, in the context of the large numbers of Muslim pupils populating Catholic schools. Click here to read that discussion Previously, in July 2016, we had addressed...
I'm always very surprised to learn of allegedly informed Catholics who continue to believe that Catholic schools are doing a great job. It's as if there were no crisis in the Church, as if everyone involved had the same objective of passing on the Faith. Having led a number of RE Departments in Catholic schools in England, I know...
