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December 11th, 2020 Venues used for humanist marriages are allowed to reopen from today, after a strong majority of such venues were required to close during the recent lockdown. The regulations, during the two-week lockdown, required venues that normally serve food or drink to close – regardless of whether they were actually serving food or drink. This affected many humanist couples, who frequently choose to get married in such locations. By contrast, places of worship were allowed to stay open for religious marriages, and register offices were allowed to open for civil marriages. But the ...

December 10th, 2020 The way new teachers are trained reinforces educational division in Northern Ireland, a new report from Ulster University has found. Northern Ireland Humanists, which campaigns for a single system of schooling that educates pupils from all backgrounds together, has welcomed the report, which is the latest in a series looking at the problems associated with religiously segregated schools from the University’s UNESCO Centre for Education. At present, there are four institutions in Northern Ireland providing teacher training courses: Stranmillis University College, St Mary�...