'Learn Together' is the moral and ethical programme taught in Educate Together schools. It was first published in 2004.

However, only two of the seven Colleges of Education deliver the ‘Learn Together’ curriculum and these offer only a small third year elective option which is attended by an average of 50 students (out of a student body of approximately 2,400).

The seven Colleges of Education are funded to prepare teachers for employment in all of the country’s 3,200 primary schools, says Educate Together.

Over 11,000 pupils are being educated in 56 Educate Together primary schools around the country and the organization has plans for considerable further expansion in the immediate future to meet parental demand.

Commenting on the situation, Educate Together CEO Paul Rowe said:

“We are simply calling for equality of status for training delivery of our ethical education curriculum with those of established patrons. The infrastructure is already in place; it just requires a more equitable allocation of teaching resources.

“A newly qualified teacher entering an Educate Together school will have received at best 12 hours training in our ethical curriculum as against the 3-year programmes available on Catholic or Church of Ireland religious curricula.” (Source: Educate Together)