ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes and analyzes the relationship between education, law, and religion in the nations covered. It offers recommendations on how to further enhance legal protection for freedom of education in religion. Regardless of where one lives, the relationship between education, law, and religion typically generates an interesting array of potentially contentious issues. The Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Quebec, and Ontario fully fund Catholic schools while Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Quebec, and Saskatchewan partially fund independent, generally religious, schools. Religious schools can only be established in the form of private educational institutions funded by individuals or organizations, including churches of different confessions. A key feature of the system in England is the ensured place of religion within the academic life of schools. National leaders must provide adequate funding to create schools to provide children of all faiths with a world-class education. The term 'religious instruction' refers to teaching based on the tenets of one religious faith and religious worship.
