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April 19th, 2021 An exemption to equality law allowing schools in Northern Ireland to employ teachers on religious grounds may be challenged in Stormont, after the Chair of Stormont’s Education Committee launched a consultation into a proposed private members’ bill to ‘tackle’ the issue. The bill is being proposed by Alliance MLA Chris Lyttle. Northern Ireland Humanists – which campaigns for equal treatment of teachers regardless of religious background – welcomed the move and said the ‘grossly unfair’ exemption should be scrapped as soon as possible. Last month, members of the Education Committee from across the political spectrum blasted the discrimination teachers face in Northern Ireland’s schools as ‘perverse’, ‘archaic’, and unfair, with Mr Lyttle saying he was ‘profoundly uncomfortable’ with the appointment of teachers by faith. The comments followed an evidence session in which Dr Matt Milliken of Ulster University’s UNESCO Education Centre

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